This is my favorite field trip. Each September, we travel an hour and a half to the Perry Lowe Apple Orchard in North Wilkesboro. Before the trip, we learn how apples are cultivated. We read and write about apples. We sort apples. We count apples. We compare the taste of different apple varieties. We bake apple turnovers.
So you can imagine the ooohs and aaahs when the bus turns off of the busy interstate onto a quiet, winding, dirt road lined with apple trees laden with apples. We hop off of the bus and Farmer Lowe gives each of us a fresh, cold apple to eat as we ride along on a trailor behind his tractor to tour the orchard. We visit the apple house to learn how the apples are processed. And at the end, we pick our own apples to take home. What a great way to welcome the season of fall!
