10/25/2021
Apple picking or more like apple picking up. Posted • A sea of apples - a happy story.
In October 2017 thousands of fruit were felled when the remnants of hurricane Ophelia struck Ireland, bringing severe winds. When the storm passed, staff at the Bulmers orchard in Clonmel were greeted by a carpet of apples stretching across the orchard. The winds which reached up to 100mph, blew the apples from the trees, leaving a complete carpet on the orchard floor. The carpet of apples was neatly packed as though they had been purposefully arranged that way.
The River Suir flooded over its banks and filled the orchard.
When the river subsided, it left all the apples gathered neatly together on the ground.
The apples fall was cushioned and they were gently and neatly deposited on the ground, in perfect condition, as the waters receded. So instead of a scene of devastation, farmers were surprised to find the trees still standing and the fruit that usually has to be hand picked lying neatly on the ground in a massive and evenly-spread pile.
The fallen fruit was used to make Bulmers Irish cider! —
Ph: Jonathan Ryan of Tipperary Photos.
