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| - The apple-picking season is upon us! I have awful memories of apple-picking: the rule of thumb is, when you go with your school at age 6, it always rains, you can never pick the apples you want, your clothes get muddy and ultimately someone cries and we all have to pack.
So I decided I would make some great memories and celebrate the local produce. If you don't know, St-Joseph du Lac is where's it's at, in terms of apples. Orchards are piling one of top of the other, and in the winter months, they transform into sugar shacks. We stumbled on Lacroix and it seemed jovial enough, and once we paid our 15$ for a 20lb bag to be filled, we were off!
You know you're at a real genuine Quebecois orchard when they take you around the estate in trolleys driven by a tractor, and that's exactly what we got. Not all apples are fit to be picked depending on the time of year and organizers make it really clear from which aisles you can pick. Once you are done fighting for ladders and finding the reddest roundest fruits, you hop back on the trolley and are promptly driven back. First off the place is great if you have kids, they can hop onto tractor tires, check out horses and goats and a albino rabbit (aw) and then get lost in a small hay labyrinth! You will be tired by now, so sit back under the apple trees and enjoy their food offerings such as squash poutine, apple fries, squash fries, pie and especially apple doughnuts. MMMmm you can smell them from the road, and sprinkle them with cinnamon. To prolong the experience, pick up some delicious homemade cider and pies at their shop!
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