Fall in the Hudson Valley

where to pick apples, antique, enjoy trees

If you like the crisp edges of lasagne, the soaked croutons, the whipped cream that gets icy around the chocolate scoop - you’re in the right place.

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Fall in the Hudson Valley needs no introduction. Outrageous beauty, so much going on. Beyond grilling sausages over the fire and warming tiny toes after many a failed hike, here’s what I’m most looking forward to…

Picking at Rose Hill:
Rose Hill grows something like 24 varieties of apples, including Shizuka, Fortune, Keepsake, and the usual suspects. Go early: eat cider donuts for breakfast, pick bushels, and get some of their unfiltered cider vinegar. Nearby, South Woods on the Bard campus has one of the few untouched old-growth forests in New York, and is a lovely place to recover from a post-picking sugar crash. Make pie when you get home (recipe next week).

Being first in line for the Montage Brocante:
The best antique store in the area (Montage) has these warehouse sales the day they unpack their containers from Europe.