I did do a bit of tasting but chose a vintage based on honey rather than grapes.  Planet Bee Honey Farm has dozens of variations on straight fermented honey.  I tried half a dozen ranging from sour cherry to oak aged wildflower with cardamom.  Each was a fun taste but I ended up with the classic mead as well as a jar of the wildflower honey it is based upon.

We checked out the Davidson orchard that is set up as sort of a family destination to get “out on the farm”.  Scarecrow people with pumpkin parts made up the Pumpkin Butter Band and other greeters.  A hilarious fuel oil tank cow and bull stood guard over the entrance to the playground.  It was all very cute.

In the orchard they trellise the apple trees.  It looks very strange but must be a way to deal with heavy snow fall and to allow harvesting entirely from the ground.  The honey crisp are just ripe and delicious.  September is sweet corn time here.  We bought a couple ears of peaches and cream (their version of bicolor) and it was the first ear corn of the season for us and was fantastic.  Of course they had a bakery that featured goods made with their local fruit.  My plum cake was wonderful as was Kent’s carrot cake.