CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Saturday is Nationwide Apple Day, which celebrates all issues apple!

This nationwide day is devoted to selling the cultural and historic significance of apples, in addition to the significance of orchards and apple-related merchandise, in response to the Nationwide Day Calander.

There are a number of completely different styles of apples, resembling:

1. Crimson Scrumptious apples: Recognized for his or her vivid purple pores and skin and candy, mildly tart taste.
2. Gala apples: Small to medium-sized and have a candy, crisp, and mildly tart taste.
3. Fuji apples: Recognized for his or her agency texture and candy, barely spicy taste. They’re nice for consuming contemporary and maintain up nicely in storage.
4. Granny Smith apples: Recognized for his or her vivid inexperienced pores and skin and tart, crisp flesh. They’re typically utilized in baking and for making apple pies.
5. Honeycrisp apples: Prized for his or her candy and exceptionally crisp texture.
6. Braeburn apples: These have a candy and barely tart taste with a crisp texture.
7. Pink Girl apples: Recognized for his or her sweet-tart taste and crisp texture. They’re typically loved contemporary and are additionally utilized in salads. 

Choose-your-own apple orchards

Nationwide Apple Day was established with the aim of celebrating apples, orchards, and apple-related merchandise, so the place are you able to get apples? Here’s a checklist of a few of the finest pick-your-own apple orchards in western Massachusetts:

A few of these orchards ask that you don’t deliver pets. Verify with the orchard you wish to go to this 12 months earlier than going.

Recipes

Now, what do you do with the apples after you could have picked them? Style of Residence has an inventory of apple recipes to make this fall: