Apple farmers at Dr. Davies Farm in Congers take the whole year preparing for two months.
“We spend every day pruning, maintaining, cleaning, fertilizing, and caring for our apple trees to produce the crop that we have,” Jimmy Higgins, the farm manager, said.
He said apples begin to ripen from the beginning of September all the way through the end of October -- and that the best time to go is right now.
From late September until about Halloween is when he said most varieties of apples grown on the property are ripe. They’re the sweetest now too.