This is what happens to all of the unsold apples from my family's orchard

There really is no way to live ethically in Western society. At least, not legally.

You know whats really going to get you mad? Depending on where you live the city can destroy your garden. Their reason was that the grass was too high and not properly maintained, so they destroyed $1000 worth of fruit/flowers.

That also wasn't the only one. The city's reason for destroying a 3 year old community garden that was feeding people was because of "unsafe conditions".

That's also not the only other one. destroyed a medicinal and edible plant garden. She did so because she was unemployed and was going to be self-reliant.

Then there are states where collecting rain water is illegal. And other countries also destroying gardens. Or states making it illegal to go off-the-grid.

I don't know, that's more like a potato hill. JK jk

Honestly would love to be able to just grab as many potatoes as I can. I'd be handing bags of potatoes out like business cards.

"Hey, John! I haven't seen you in forever how's the kids?"

"Awesome, awesome. So, I have these potatoes..."

This and the apples together and you can make "earth and heaven". An easy and lovely side dish from germany

11/10 doctors approved

Clearly not an apple pie though 

The dairy industry in Canada is literally run by a cartel. They dump millions of gallons of milk so supply never exceeds demand and keeps prices high. We pay 40% more for dairy than the states.

The farmer’s market here sells peaches for $5/lb and then gets a huge tax write-off for the stuff they don’t sell because they donate it to City Harvest. The homeless are eating the $5/lb peaches.

Go read The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. He breaks it down really well.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Because there is still costs to transport, package, process the apples. Once it falls below a certain level it's just not worth doing. That's even assuming there would be demand for them.

This is part of why there are various subsidies and agricultural regulations from the government. Too little food supply is very bad, too much that tanks prices directly leads to too little and is very bad. It's all about keeping a balance

Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up?

And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit.

And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed.

And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze;

and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

It undercuts the market so much that the market would collapse. Farming is at the point where everything has advanced so fast in such a short period or time that the economics of it are totally broken. That's why there are so many government programs when it comes to agriculture. If everything was sold at pure market rates all but the largest farmers would be out of business.

You know they're one of the cheapest fruits because almost any juice blend always has apple juice as the number one ingredient

Not sure how long back you're referring, but $0.89 in 1990 is $2.13 today. That's more expensive than my local grocery ($1.54)

I’m an apple farmer and the answer is the retailers. Take honeycrisp apple for example they used to wholesale for $40-$60 a bushel this year they are selling for ~$23 a bushel. Yet the retail price has barely come down at all. Guess who’s keeping all that extra money? It’s the grocery store!

They are, best apple cider are made from very bitter apples. Remember tasting my GMother apples : brrrr ouch…

Traditionally yes but there's some really interesting ones that use eating apples. At the last beer fest I went to there were like 100 different ciders and a bunch of them were made with eating apples. They tend to be a bit sweeter I think?

Is moscato different in the US? In Australia it’s a sweet wine that’s really high in calories (higher than cider) and similar alcohol content (5.5%)?

In fact to drink the same amount of alcohol, it’s slightly more calories drinking moscato than cider (depending on the cider of course).

SLOW DOWN!

Love it! Two opposite sides of the country, same exp 🤙