It's the fall festival you've been waiting all year for- Vintage Virginia Apples and Albemarle CiderWorks annual Apple Harvest Festival!

Join us for a day filled with fun for the whole family: hay rides, apple and cider tasting, apple butter and brunswick stew made over an outdoor fire, live demonstrations on homesteading skills and lectures on horticulture and foodways.  Enter your famous apple pie in the pie contest, or enjoy some fried apple pies made on site.  Visit with local artisans and sample their wares, and enjoy a full day's lineup of live music.  Rain or shine, this is a festival not to be missed!

This year's music line-up:

Gallatin Canyon 10:30-12:30

Jim Waive 12:30-2:30

The Get Rights 3-5

Lecture Schedule:

• 10:30     Pressing Demo with Assistant CiderMaker Thomas Unsworth
• 11:30     Apple Pie Contest sponsored by The Charlottesville Cooking School
• 12:15     Announcement of Apple Pie Contest Winner (and sale of slices to benefit the CoveGarden Ruritan Club)
• 12:30    Vintage Apple Tasting with Tom Burford
• 1:15        Pressing Demo with Assistant CiderMaker Thomas Unsworth
• 2:00       Growing Herbs and Greens Through the Cool Season with Margaret Shelton from Shelton Herb Farm
• 3:00       Vintage Apple Tasting with Tom Burford

Cidery Tours at 1100, 1230, 200, 330