Apple Hill bursting with flavors of the season
By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee
World Apple Day will have its 21st anniversary on the 21st (Friday), and apple experts – nutritionists, markets and producers – from Sonoma to Camino are all telling us the same thing: They never heard of it.
Californians haven’t exactly adopted World Apple Day – a British idea – but that doesn’t mean apples aren’t getting a lot of attention lately.
Apple Hill has all kinds of apples. Photo/LTN file
Apple Hill just finished its busiest weekend of the year, said Ann Wofford, director of the Apple Hill Growers Association, a collection of 55 orchards and other agricultural businesses in El Dorado County.
Liz Applegate, a nutritionist at UC Davis, is promoting the apple as vigorously as she does all year.
“It does more than keep a doctor away,” she said, alluding to its weight-control benefits.
October is also National Apple Month, according to the U.S. Apple Association.