Sennett, NY — When the apples are ready for picking it usually means the start of school is right around the corner. But not this year. Apples are being picked this week and school is still a month off.
"I started picking my Jerseymacs today,' Owen Orchards owner Gordon Tripp said Wednesday. "And they look great."
Like many other crops in Central New York, apples are running 10 days to two weeks ahead of their normal picking schedule.
While Tripp picked Wednesday, Dennis Ouellette at Ontario Orchards in Oswego town will be picking today, Warren Abbott at Abbott Farms in Lysander will begin this weekend and Peter Fleckenstein at Beak & Skiff in LaFayette said picking for apples going to grocery stores will begin next week.
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