{"id":25397,"date":"2018-09-06T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2018-09-06T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:20:31","slug":"california-apple-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-apple-state\/","title":{"rendered":"California Up for Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/johnap.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple season is upon us and the fruit is ripe for picking! \u00a0Beginning in September apple lovers can visit U-pick orchards throughout the state to enjoy the farm fresh hand-to-mouth experience of eating this sweet, juicy treat.<\/p>\n<h2>Apple Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.<\/li>\n<li>The science of apple growing is called pomology.<\/li>\n<li>Apples are a member of the rose family.<\/li>\n<li>The five most popular apples in the United States are Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji and Granny Smith.<\/li>\n<li>Some apple trees live over a 100 years.<\/li>\n<li>Bobbing for apples is possible because 25% of an apple&#8217;s volume is air. That is why they float.<\/li>\n<li>In colonial time the apple was called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.<\/li>\n<li>One of George Washington&#8217;s hobbies was pruning his apple trees.<\/li>\n<li>The world&#8217;s top apple producers are China, United States, Turkey, Iran and Poland.<\/li>\n<li>Apples grow in all 50 U.S. States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-apples.html\">California Apples<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>California&#8217;s Counties that grow the most apples by acreage are: San Joaquin; then Sonoma; then Santa Cruz.<\/li>\n<li>California ranks 5th in the nation for apple production, and 2nd in exports.<\/li>\n<li>California exports apples to over 60 countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-apple-festivals.html\">Apple Festivals and Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>HAYWARD:\u00a0 Garin Apple Festival Sept,8, 2018.\u00a0Garin is home to an antique apple orchard with varieties of apples you won&#8217;t find anywhere else. Try your hand at hand-cranking ice cream or pressing apple cider and then taste the fruit of your labor.<\/li>\n<li>BOONVILLE:\u00a0Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show Sept.14-16. Contests include Apple Sauce, Apple Cake, Apple Pie, Apple Cider, Apple Juice, Apple Jelly, Apple Butter, Apple Syrup and Dried Apples.<\/li>\n<li>AVILA BEACH:\u00a0 Apple Festival Dinner Sept.22<\/li>\n<li>APPLE HILL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/apple-hill-johnny-appleseed.html\">Johnny Appleseed Day<\/a> Sept.23 is celebrated in a variety of ways at member orchards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple season is upon us and the fruit is ripe for picking! \u00a0Beginning in September apple lovers can visit U-pick orchards throughout the state to enjoy the farm fresh hand-to-mouth experience of eating this sweet, juicy treat. Apple Facts Humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C. The science of apple growing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25398,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions\/25398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}