A Beautiful Day at Hackett's Orchard

Our apple picking field trip was picture perfect.  On top of the gorgeous weather, we had an excellent guide (Gary) and the memorable experience of eating an apple you picked yourself! While on the tractor ride we learned about different varieties of apples, how apple trees grow and how a terrible frost in the 1930's destroyed all but one of the trees in the orchard.  This prompted one of the children to wonder if that tree was still there and if we could visit it.  Gary was inspired by the curiosity and took our group to another area of the orchard where we visited the nearly 100 year old surviving tree- super cool!