Wednesday Walk Challenge : Potager Mont Rouge, Rougemont (Quebec)

For this Wednesday Walk Challenge, we return for the second year in a row to the Potager Mont-Rouge to pick some apples. I think we went earlier in the season because this year there were also a few tomatoes and eggplants left to pick. You can check out my post from last year Potager Mont-Rouge (Quebec) 2023.

Pour ce Wednesday Walk Challenge, nous retournons pour la seconde année d'affilée au Potager Mont-Rouge pour aller cueillir quelques pommes. Je pense que nous sommes allés plus tôt dans la saison car cette année il restait aussi quelques tomates et aubergines à ramasser. Vous pouvez aller voir mon post de l'année dernière Potager Mont-Rouge (Quebec) 2023.

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It was a perfect day to enjoy this large orchard, with beautiful sunshine and not too hot, around 25° (77°F). It was a beautiful day, as you'll see in this post.

La journée était parfaite pour profiter de ce grand verger avec un beau soleil et pas trop chaud, vers les 25°. Cela fut une très belle journée comme vous allez le constater dans ce post.

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The Potager Mont-Rouge (potager : Vegetable garden) is located in the town of Rougemont, not far from Montreal, about 1 hour by car. This is truly apple country, with all farms offering U-pick. In the distance, you can see Mont Rougemont with its 381-metre-high antenna.

Le Potager Mont-Rouge se trouve dans la ville de Rougemont, pas très loin de Montréal, environ à 1 heure en voiture. C'est vraiment la région des Pommes, toutes les fermes proposent l'autocueillette. Au loin, on remarque le Mont Rougemont avec son antenne, 381 mètres de hauteur.

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🗺️ Position on OpenStreetMap

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A small tractor and trailer with hay bales as seats takes us from the parking lot to the Cortland apple orchards. As the sign indicates, you can pick up other vegetables. There were still a few tomatoes and eggplants. But we limited ourselves to apples. I'm not a multitasker 😅

Un petit tracteur avec sa remorque ou des botes de foin font office de siège nous amène du parking aux pommiers Cortland. Comme le panneau l'indique, vous pouvez ramasser d'autres légumes. Il y avait encore quelques tomates et aubergines. Mais nous nous sommes limités aux pommes. Je ne suis pas multitâches 😅

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Tomatoes / Tomates

Eggplants / Aubergines

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Despite the popularity of this orchard, there are enough apple trees and apples for everyone. The estate is large, no need to fight your way up ladders and fill your bags 😀. We had two 20-pound bags, one for Cortland and the other for Spartan.

Malgré la popularité de ce verger, il y a assez de pommiers et de pommes pour tout le monde. Le domaine est grand, pas besoin de se battre pour monter aux échelles et remplir ses sacs 😀. Nous avions deux sacs de 20 livres, un pour les Cortland et l'autre pour les Spartan.

The apples are juicy, but perhaps a few more days in the sun would have been necessary to gorge them with a little more sugar. But in compote and tart, they're perfect* 😋. / FR : Les pommes sont bien juteuses mais peut être quelques jours de plus au soleil auraient été nécessaires pour les gorger un peu plus de sucre. Mais en compote et en tarte, elles sont parfaites 😋.

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*Near the parking, there are plenty of activities for families, including bouncy castles, a picnic area and even a mini farm with a beautiful little cow. No ? / FR : Au niveau du parking, il y a de nombreuses activités pour les familles dont des jeux gonflables, une aire de pique nique et même une mini ferme avec une très belle petite vache. Non ?

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I hope you enjoyed this walk through the orchard with me. I love this activity, perfect for start autumn. Happy Wednesday Walk Challenge!

J'espère que vous avez appréciez cette balade dans ce verger en ma compagnie. J'aime bien cette activité, parfaite pour bien commencer l'automne. Bon Wednesday Walk Challenge



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Nice place,and beautiful view,love the post. Thank you, happy day.

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Yep very cool place to enjoy autumn. And with this weather, perfect 😀

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Beautiful walk. Thats a nice result from picking. To bad they are so sour. But as you say, perfect for compote and tarts.
Love the fluffy cow in the end.
Looks like a beautiful day out for sure. Thanks for sharing 😊
!PIZZA

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Yep I'd love to take this "fluffy cow" home with me, she's so beautiful and friendly. She loved to be petted 😀
Have a lovely day

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oh I would too. When I lived (briefly) in Scotland I wanted to cuddle a fluffy cow. But wrong season… and we were to remote !LOL So I didn't manage to find them 😂
Thanks! You too 👋🏻
!HUG

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I would go crazy if I were there, imagine seeing so many delicious apples there! I hope someday I can pick apples directly from the orchard.

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It's a great experience, especially with children. And the day was perfect, with beautiful autumn sunshine.
Have a lovely day

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what a cool post, I remember back when I was young I would work after school and weekends in a market garden, which included picking apples, Tomatoes, Pumpkins potatoes and other things had work but I loved it

Thanks for joining the Wednesday Walk :)
Have a great day :)

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Yep it's a really great activity, especially with children, a nice walk while picking fruit and vegetables.
Have a great day too

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I thought, by now, Quebec will be a bit cold that what I can see from your photographs. Nice collection and well done post @heroldius 🫴🏻🫴🏻

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We're lucky this autumn because we've got some beautiful days. Maybe that makes up for the rainy summer we've had. We need to make the most of it before the cold sets in 😀

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I think it probably would be a coldest fall than last years and an even cooler winter...

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Awesome looking #wednesdaywalk. The have been going all in on apples this year. We have juiced them, made apple sauce, and also baked with them. Plus snacking 😋

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Yes, it's a lot of work after picking to make compotes and tarts... but it's so good. I've never made apple juice, you need a special machine, don't you?

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There are lots of different kinds of machines but you do need something specialized. We have a juicer so its easy. A serious juicer like we make carrot juice, apple juice, orange juice all kinds of stuff.

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