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Mailing Address
Oak Glen Apple Growers' Association
P.O. Box 1123
Yucaipa, Ca. 92399 Phone (909) 797-6833 |
Oak Glen Apple Growers Association
November 5, 2011
For Immediate Release
Oak Glen Set To Celebrate 8th Annual Apple Butter Festival Thanksgiving Weekend
The Oak Glen Apple Growers Association along with several of the Oak Glen Merchants will be offering a weekend, Friday through Sunday, full of traditional fall activities glen wide celebrating, as our ancestors did, the end of harvest season. “If you want to avoid the ‘Black Friday’ rush or walk off that Thanksgiving dinner, attending Oak Glen’s Apple Butter Festival will help you do both,” says Devon Riley, President of the Oak Glen Apple Growers Association.
Oak Glen’s Apple Butter Festival begins Friday, Nov. 25th and closes Sunday afternoon Nov. 27th. There will be activities the entire family can enjoy including, apple cider tasting contest, apple butter and applesauce contests inviting the public to enter their own special apple butters and applesauce for judging, a kids coloring contest, an apple-peeling contest, apple pie eating contest, quilt show, live music, hayrides, plenty of good food and other activities. On Friday night there will be Contra Dancing and Saturday night an Apple Butter Hoedown at Los Rios Rancho. Admittance to the Apple Butter Festival is free. There are small charges for some activities.
“We’ll be making apple butter in the same way our pioneer ancestors did, slowly, over an open fire in a big kettle” said Dennis Riley, of Riley’s Apple Farm. “We’ll show folks how to “stir the snitz” and “add the money.” He also said the festival would offer hands on instruction to learn how to make the same kind of crafts, such as corn husk dolls and apple garland, that the pioneers would make to decorate their Christmas trees. “Folks will be able to participate in traditional country games as well.”
Oak Glen is a community of apple ranchers and merchants dedicated to preserving some of California’s rich history and family traditions. Enoch Parrish opened his apple orchard in 1876, followed by the Wilshire family. The Rivers brothers and their families came to Oak Glen in 1906. Their orchard, Los Rios Rancho (Spanish for “The Rivers Ranch”) is still in operation, as are many of the other original orchards in the area. The Law family came into the area with its own apple orchard in the 1930s and built the first roadside apple stand and first restaurant and gift shop soon after.
Hiking trails, picnic areas and many special activities make Oak Glen appealing to virtually everyone. A mile high scenic loop of apple orchards, oak groves and mountain scenery, Oak Glen is located 10 miles off the I-10 at Yucaipa (Oak Glen Rd. exit) or Beaumont (Beaumont Ave. exit), just 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
For more information and a complete schedule of events and activities go to www.oakglen.net.
Contact:
Nina Foster – Promotions and Events Coordinator
Oak Glen Apple Growers Board of Directors
Email: [email protected]
909-797-0253