Last week, BCCF team members traveled to the Prince Edward County Cannery in Farmville, VA, in order to turn 800 pounds of recently harvested apples (including the Winesap, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Arkansas Black, and York varieties) into sweet, spicy apple butter.
What better crop to start with than apples: a fruit with a rich and varied history in the U.S., and a very special place at Oak Spring (our Apple House is proof of that - now used as a conference space, it was originally built by the Mellons for the sole purpose of storing and sorting the estate’s annual apple crop. Canning has been among the foremost of those ideas, as a way to preserve the food and create products to support the farm and share with our guests and the wider community.
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