Fall’s Almost Here. Can We Still Go Apple Picking?
Fall’s Almost Here. Can We Still Go Apple Picking? Across much of the country, fall is the season of apple-picking, corn mazes, winery harvests and Halloween hauntings, luring day-trippers and weekenders to rural areas. But if summer is any guide, many fall festivities may require more planning this year to avoid the crowds.While visitors may still launch a pumpkin from a catapult, pandemic restrictions will touch everything: Hay rides will now be socially distanced, and masked clowns will be poised to scare haunted house visitors from six feet away.ImagePicking apples at Grandad’s Apples, in Hendersonville, N.C..Credit...Sam Dean/Henderson County TourismReservations in the orchardsApple-picking, pumpkin patch visits and corn mazes are fall traditions at many businesses.In Hendersonville, N.C., 25 miles south of Asheville, the annual North Carolina Apple Festival celebrates the area’s fruit growers and has, in recent years, drawn some 250,000 attendees to town. This year, the September event was largely canceled, but area orchards remain busy.“Down are the tour bus groups and church groups, but we’re getting a lot more families,” said Leslie Lancaster, an owner of Grandad’s Apples N’ Such, a 120-acre farm in Hendersonville that offers apple picking (pecks from $11) and has a store and bakery. “Everyone is trying to find something to do with their kids.”The #AgricultureandFarming #Apples #Autumn(Season) #Halloween #LabyrinthsandMazes #Pumpkins #TravelandVacations #updatesonusnewsonacqro #usnewsacqro #usnewsacqroupdates #usnewsonacqro #usnewsupdates #usanews #Wines Read the full article