apple picking

A beloved Upstate New York apple orchard has just been named the best in the country.

Apples, pumpkins, and cider, oh my! If you love the fall season and everything it offers, there are plenty of places where you can spend the day picking apples, walking through corn mazes, or just enjoying apple cider.

Soon Upstate New York apple orchards will be opening and ready for you to come and pick your own apples. But one apple orchard in the Capital Region has made the difficult decision to not open for its sixteenth season.

It is the season for the whole family to go apple picking! This is a list of some of the best orchards in Upstate New York.

I've been apple picking more times than I can count. I've never had an experience that was more negative and off-putting than the one I had this weekend at an Upstate New York farm this past weekend.

Well, move over apples and pumpkins because the newest fall favorite could be hemp picking. Seriously, there is a hemp farm in New York that allows people to come and "pick their own".

Here are some of the best local farms to go apple picking this fall.

I remember last September writing about a local orchard that wasn't messing around when it came to people jacking their apples, pilfering their fruit and mooching their macs.  Jake Samascott is a 4th generation farmer at Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook and  according to the report from News Channel 13, he's fed up with folks embezzling his Empires and trying to get away with it.

Good news: the coronavirus will not keep you from your favorite fall activities this year.

It's the time of year for apple picking and we're in the perfect place for it! Maybe too perfect that we get a little overwhelmed. Do you need help picking where you're apple picking this year?

It's apple-picking season but one of your favorite places is changing how they're doing things and adding a cover charge to one of your favorite fall-tivities.

The other day I bought those gnarly fake teeth, a.k.a 'bubba' teeth, you see in the costume store. I figured it would be fun to wear them while acting silly and joking around with my 3-year-old Brody. I thought it was funny - I'm smiling just thinking about it - but he hated it.  My mom and dad used to do this stuff all the time when we were young, but I don't think I'll be using them again! Read