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Great Escape: Celebrate the Apple

The Queens County Farm Museum pays tribute to the fruit

If you’re planning your annual trek upstate for apple picking, think again before the gang gets in the car to battle traffic. The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park is hosting its Apple Festival on Sunday Oct. 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s a full day of fun focusing on everything apple. You can buy a large variety of  apples, which are taken straight from the orchards upstate earlier in the week. Apple cider from Jericho Cider Mill, caramel and jelly apples will also be on sale.

“It’s as if you have gone upstate to a country farm but you’re in the city, says Amy Boncardo, executive director of the Queens County Farm Museum. “It’s kind of wonderful that way.” 

Another highlight of the day is the “nation’s largest apple cobbler” to be baked on site. It is eight feet by eight feet in size, uses 500 pounds of apples and 100 pounds of  plum topping. It serves 800 people. Other apple activities include an apple cider pressing demonstration (if the bees allow for it), an apple pie eating contest, apple fact sheet handouts, country music, hayrides, kid’s games and antiques and collectibles.

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While at the Farm, you can also enjoy the three-acre interactive Corn Maize, and animal livestock feeding. In addition to the apples, you can check out the Farm’s pumpkin patch to get ready for Halloween.

Festival admission is free. Entrance into the Corn Maize is $9 for adults and $5 for children.

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The Queens County Farm Museum is located at 73-50 Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park. Visit queensfarm.org or call 718-347-3276.

 

 

 

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