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Pick For Your Neighbor

Pick for Your Neighbor is a partnership program between the Vermont Foodbank, the Agency of Agriculture and the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association. During apple harvest season citizens are encouraged to visit a participating orchard to pick and purchase extra apples for donation to the Foodbank. Click here for a map of participating orchards and to learn more.

Apples to iPods!

Specially-marked wooden apples are hidden in 15 of Vermont’s pick-your-own apple orchards all over the state. If you find one of these unique “iPod apples,” you win an Apple iPod or maybe an iPad! For more details click here.

 

Woodchuck Hard Cider press release

 

Apple Season Kick-off Celebration

Vermont Department of Tourism Kicks Off
Sixth Annual Apples to iPods Contest
at 19 Apple Orchards

 

What: Vermont’s apple harvest season will be picking up soon and all signs point to a ‘fruitful’ yield. The Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing and the Tree Fruit Growers Association invite you to a celebratory kick off and press conference. This season marks the sixth season of Apples to iPods and more orchards than ever are participating. Starting September 5 and running through the season, 19 orchards will offer visitors the chance to win an iPod by finding the wooden apple hidden in the trees. The state of Vermont partners with Small Dog Electronics and Woodchuck® Hard Cider to produce this good-natured promotion of Vermont’s working landscape. This also marks the second year of the Vermont Foodbank’s Pick for Your Neighbor initiative to combat hunger in Vermont.  

Where: Shelburne Orchards
              216 Orchard Road, Shelburne, VT 05482
              802.985.2753

When: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.

Who: Speakers include VDTM Deputy Commissioner Steve Cook, Steve Justis, Executive Director of the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association and representatives from Small Dog Electronics, Woodchuck® Hard Cider and the Vermont Food Bank.


Contact: Jen Butson
Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing
Jen.Butson@state.vt.us; @VermontTourism
802.522.7323

http://www.vermontvacation.com

http://www.applestoipods.com

 

 
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