Johannes’ Blog

Last weekend we went to the Fieldays in Mystery creek, Hamilton. They were biggest ever this year with more than one thousand exibitors and around half a million people. This was also the 40th time they got held and they are now the biggest fieldays in the southern hemisphere and the third biggest in the world. I was there from eight till seven but still only saw half the things there, I didn’t really like that. I also thought that the field days were a bit too big and I often couldn’t find the places where I wanted to go. But after that day I was glad that we could go home  because I had really tired feet. Click here for some more info

Every autumn we make apple juice with our friends. They get apples in big bins from sunfruit. First we get the tractor to carry the apples to the dairy shed on their farm.Then all the apples go through a garden shredder and into big bins. We then load the shredded apples into a pneumatic press which can press about 600-700 litres of juice from one ton of apples. Then we pump the juice in to some big 200 litre (50 gallon) drums for storage. We then pour the juice into a heated drum where it gets heated to 78′C and from there we pour it into 14 litre (3.5 gallon) bags. After that we take the bags home and drink it and I can’t wait till we make apple juice again next year.