Got Apples? Free Sebastopol Community Apple Press To Make Juice

[Slow Food Russian River]

Got apples? Now there’s a great new way to make apple juice! Slow Food Russian River is providing 2 FREE Community Apple Presses at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm in Sebastopol! NOW through the end of October.

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Make delicious, healthy fresh juice that you can freeze and enjoy throughout the year, or ferment into hard cider. Contact us about Cider Making Classes.

Bring apples from your backyard tree or a farmers’ market or farm stand. If you want to pick your own apples to press, you can visit a farmer offering U-pick, as shown on the Slow Food web site. Here is a list and a map of local apple farmers.

All you need to bring is apples and plastic containers. (No glass please, to avoid breakage.) Slow Food Russian River provides facilities for you to wash and cut your apples to prepare them for the Community Apple Presses. A Slow Food volunteer familiar with operation of the presses will be on site.

To see how the presses work, click HERE. It takes about a half-hour to press a bushel of apples (about 40 pounds), and you’ll be rewarded with 2 or 3 gallons of juice! Sign the waiver and BOOK A PRESS!

Children of all ages can participate in pressing apples, but parents are solely responsible for supervising their children.
Happy apple juicing!!!

More about Slow Food Russian River here.