For apple picking. Which this year also included tomato picking, eggplant picking, and grape eating. Last weekend, we headed to Barton Orchards located about an hour and 20 minutes north of the city. The name sounds quaint and country like but this place was designed for lots and lots of people. As we entered the property, we learned that not only does Barton Orchards offer apples, but starting in July you can pick just about any fruit and vegetable that can grow in NY State - blueberries, strawberries, tomatoes, corn, beans, zucchini, squash, peppers, eggplant, peaches...and about 20 different varieties of apples. Now, I didn't even realize that there were so many different varieties of apples until the last few years. Likely because I have never purchased apples that much. Before we had kids, I'd occasionally buy apples and then eat 1 and let the other 3 sit in my fridge for likely weeks eventually tossing them in the garbage. Now, we go through a lot of apples (and ba