We arrived around noon and the place was already bustling with lines looping around several times before being able to pay for our apple picking bag. While in line we noticed several peculiar postings related to apple picking.
As you can see here, they take their apple picking very serious, but with thousands of people coming through every year I'm sure that they've had their fair share of people trying to take more apples than they paid for.
Finally at the front of the line, we saw how much it costs to pick apples and quickly realized that unless you're picking a lot, it's not very economical compared to buying some at the grocery store. However, in our experience so far, these Apples are much crisper and fresh tasting than anything you can find at your local grocery store. One would hope so considering you're picking them right off the trees, right?
I'm not very good at eating my perishable food in a timely manner so I decided on the smallest size, a 1/2 peck for $8. For those interested, the farm does take credit and debit cards in addition to cash thanks to mobile Apple Pay terminals.
Heading into the apple fields we saw that the apples available for picking are Macs, also known as McIntosh. Yes, the very apple that Apple/Macintosh is named after. These apples are red and green when ripe, are very crisp, and have a tart flavor.
The first thing you'll notice that there are thousands of apples in every direction, both on the trees and on the ground. We asked one of the workers what they do with all of the apples that are on the ground and they told us that sometimes they may clean them up all up and make cider with them, a great way to not waste the hundreds that were laying around!
The freshly picked apples were so firm we were almost tempted to eat one right and there but remembered all of the warnings not to eat apples while picking, plus fresh apples really should be washed before consuming. Going through the first row we realized that we may as well be picky and get the very best apples we could find considering how fast our bags were filling; so we headed out to the trees furthest away and started combing through for the perfectly ripe apples.
Overall we had a great experience and would highly recommend it to residents and travelers alike. While $8 for a relatively small bag may seem kind of pricey, the quality makes up for it. Brooksby offers a lot more than just apple picking as well. After we filled our bags we headed over to the farm store and purchased some fresh apple doughnuts and a jug of fresh apple cider, both absolutely delicious. It's a great activity to do during the perfect fall weather that this part of New England gets. If you go to Brooksby, let us know in the comments how you liked the experience!
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