Rural Ridge Farm
November 3rd 2008 by Kelly in Charlottesville, Local Event
The Apple Festival at Rural Ridge Farm in North Garden was packed. I hope they start having more events at the farm and opening it up because it was a lot of fun. They ran out of Brunswick stew early in the day even though they made 3 huge pots of it. 2 vineyards set up a tasting in one of the greenhouse buildings and Foggy Ridge Cider was there to offer a tasting of their hard ciders. Foggy Ridge is about 3 hours away from Charlottesville and they also have a meadery. The tastings for all 3 locations was $5 per person. None of the vineyards that were showcased are open to the public, but they travel around to festivals to allow people to taste their wine and hard cider.
There were tastings of the apples that were on sale to purchase and cider was available by the gallon. Blue grass music was playing and the hayride took you on a tour of the orchard. Besides brunswick stew there were also hotdogs on sale and multiple vendors set up like the city market.