It's cider season: the spotlight's on apples during the Wehr Nature Center's annual Cider Sunday event

It’s cider season: the spotlight’s on apples during the Wehr Nature Center’s annual Cider Sunday event
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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- It's apple season, and, while there are dozens of ways to prepare apples, the Wehr Nature Center is putting a spotlight on cider. This weekend is the annual Cider Sunday event.

"Apples everywhere, everything apple," said Carly Hintz. "Lots of tasting involved."

Hintz is the director of the nature center. Cider Sunday is put on by Friends of the Wehr Nature Center, and it's their biggest fundraiser to support the nature center. 

This year all of the apples you eat during Cider Sunday will come from Patterson's, a local orchard in New Berlin. 

At the event you can try apple desserts and there's even an apple recipe for brats. 

More than 100 volunteers will come out to make Cider Sunday possible. 

"Baking the cookies, making the food, setting up the pumpkin bowling. Volunteers are thinking about this event all year long," said Hintz. 

A favorite for kids of all ages is the old fashioned cider press. The two step process takes a full apple and turns it into juice. 

"We crank it down and squeeze the juices out of the pulp," said Ted Bosch, the vice president of the Friends of Wehr Nature Center. "Then we'll have some cider to drink." 

There will be dozens of other fall activities including pumpkin painting and a story walk. The event is free for members and $7 for all others over two years old. It goes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2 


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