{"id":6043,"date":"2011-09-09T07:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:39:57","slug":"friday-family-fun-apple-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/friday-family-fun-apple-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Family Fun: Apple Picking!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>pple-picking is one of my favourite summer-into-fall family traditions. On a crisp autumn day, there is nothing better than blue skies, green grass and fresh red apples. And there is no better snack than a tartly sweet juicy apple – I’m drooling just thinking about it!<\/p>\n

The apple-picking season is just getting underway here in Ottawa, and there is no shortage of great places to go — so no excuse not to get out and enjoy the fresh air before another endless winter is upon us. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

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I found this great list of apple orchards in and around Ottawa <\/a>– there are more than a dozen of them! Here’s a few of our favourites.<\/p>\n

1. Kilmarnock Orchard<\/a><\/p>\n

This is my hands-down favourite place for apple-picking. Kilmarnock is about an hour south of town, along the Rideau River just around the corner from Merrickville. It’s picture-postcard lovely, and after you’ve picked your bushels full, you can poke on over to Merrickville, the “jewel of the Rideau” for lunch and boutique shopping. I wrote this post <\/a>after our first visit in 2005, and here’s another one <\/a>from 2009. (Stay tuned for the 2011 version soon!)<\/p>\n

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2. Cannamore Orchard<\/a><\/p>\n

While Cannamore Orchards, also a little less than an hour south of town, may not be *quite* as picturesque as Kilmarnock, it has a lot of other fun stuff to engage and entertain kids of all ages. There are wagon rides, mazes, play structures, and even a few animals to pet. I blogged our Cannamore adventure <\/a>from 2007 here.<\/p>\n

3. Apple Hill Fruit Farm<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’d like something a little closer to home, how about the Apple Hill Fruit Farm on Jockvale, just off Prince of Wales beside Stonebridge\/Barrhaven? The Welch family has been operating this small pick-your-own and pre-picked apple orchard for more than half a century!<\/p>\n

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What say ye, bloggy peeps? Any other hidden apple orchard treasures in the national capital region worth checking out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple-picking is one of my favourite summer-into-fall family traditions. On a crisp autumn day, there is nothing better than blue skies, green grass and fresh red apples. And there is no better snack than a tartly sweet juicy apple – I’m drooling just thinking about it! The apple-picking season is just getting underway here in … Continue reading “Friday Family Fun: Apple Picking!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-family-fun","category-ottawas-hidden-treasures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}