{"id":208836,"date":"2006-09-25T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2006\/09\/25\/field-trip-minea-farm-9-20-06\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T04:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T04:04:41","slug":"field-trip-minea-farm-9-20-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2006\/09\/25\/field-trip-minea-farm-9-20-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip: Minea Farm 9\/20\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Today, our fledgling homeschool group went to Minea Farm, where we were able to see a 100 year-old cider press at work,&nbsp;and a video of the entire process. <\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/104\/252661297_510c41f1be.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">The video shows how the apples are harvested, washed, mashed, then are placed on a cloth-lined tray.&nbsp; The trays are stacked and pressed with 750 pounds of pressure.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Here is the press in action:<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/252649326_ae7af0f0f7.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Receiving a sample of the fresh pressed pear\/apple juice from Mrs. Minea (sounds like &#39;Minnie&#39;). Yum!<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/91\/252649330_e0194b30df.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Here is a picture of the area where the workers wash the apples, and bottle the cider.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/115\/252649338_dc6ce86a91.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">The remains of the pressed apples.&nbsp; This is processed into animal food.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/92\/252649334_9cc1ded0f4.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">The store, where the Mineas sell fresh apple cider, fruit leather, apple butter, homemade jams, organic eggs, and more.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/110\/252649333_fb6344b6a1.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">A few&nbsp; charter members of our gang!<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/114\/252661301_77df865a73.jpg\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, our fledgling homeschool group went to Minea Farm, where we were able to see a 100 year-old cider press at work,&nbsp;and a video of the entire process. &nbsp; The video shows how the apples are harvested, washed, mashed, then are placed on a cloth-lined tray.&nbsp; The trays are stacked and pressed with 750 pounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784598,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208836\/revisions\/784598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}