Enjoy

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Lovely 😊

Certainly are worse things you can do.

I did that last weekend. Good for the soul.

oh so pretty!!

Love seeing these--always a sign that summer is doing its thing. And, I'm not a winter lover LOL!

Oh we did this recently! Surprisingly good!

amazing

When beauty makes you cry.

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

This one looks like it's eagerly following the news of the day on Bluesky

Lots of bees.

ever tried the dill pickle flavor seeds? (they're awesome!)

Gorgeous 🌻

Por que, estadunidenses?

There's one down the street from me.. two weeks ago when it was in full bloom it was amazing

Aaahhhhhh!!!

Slava Ukraina 🌻

Heroiam slava!

That place looks seedy.

they had an apple cannon

dudes will see this and say Hell Yes

I would be there all day.

What?!? The existence of an ‘apple cannon’ is not something I’m familiar with and I feel robbed - does it work on androids too?

Here's a 🏆 for the funniest reply.

🎶 My country, 'tis of thee 🎶

When you really weant to keep the doctor away.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING THE DOCTOR TO STAY AWAY

You need to go to boot camp and train, Mister.

potatoes are the traditional ammo

The used to have a pumpkin cannon in Delaware for the punkin chunkin festival. It was awesome.

I spent many labor day weekends going to soccer tournaments in New Hampshire. Going to the harvest festival and watching the pumpkin cannon was always fun.

The Big Ten Inch !!!

I need to find this apple cannon + also go skeet shooting pronto

why?

So they checked with the homeless, schools, etc. first, and nobody wanted the apples?

Your theory being that this apple farm doesn't know their own business or product?

My comment had zero to do with whether or not they know their business or product.

Jeezus. There's ALWAYS (at least) one...

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

+1 😂 came here to post the same tag

Stop

no nobody wanted mealy, rotten apples

Most family farms have small scraggly apple orchards that produce small scabby apples that are basically inedible, thanks to Jonny Appleseed. He sold low quality saplings to settlers who planted them to prove they were truly “settled” and get land super cheap/free.

Thanks for the cordial explanation (unlike some). I always thought Jonny Appleseed danced through the forests throwing seeds, and that's how apple trees were invented. lol

Right? Me too! I heard him described as a frontier land developer. He’d sell the cheap saplings until an area was settled then move on to the new western edge of the frontier.

Now it all makes sense.

Historian Paul Aron argues, "Chapman was.. a businessman. He bought many of the parcels of land on which he planted his seeds and ultimately accumulated about twelve hundred acres across three states.... He wore pauper's clothing by choice and not out of necessity." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_...

"Chapman planted his apples by seed.. but without grafting, about one in a 100 seedlings will yield an apple that is edible as a fruit." Apples only good for cider. "..what Johnny Appleseed was doing and the reason he was welcome in every cabin.. he was bringing the gift of alcohol to the frontier."

These orchards still dot farmland from Virginia to Minnesota. The apples they produce look (not to mention taste) nothing like the apples you find in stores. It would be a slap in the face to give them to the homeless, schools etc. Poor folks and kids deserve decent food, not our rejects.

Like how you decided you could just cold check a black man like you his damn parents

Just a question out of curiosity. For the record, I didn't notice the poster was Black. Since people use all types of 'avatars', I don't even look. So, should I check for race before crafting my responses?

I’m sure you know damn well what race the internationally known New York Times columnist is.

You can be 'sure' all you want. I didn't know. Unlike some (I'm sure), I don't check a person's race before replying, because I don't care what race they are.

Got to load that up with your trash apples-- Red Delicious, Golden Russet, etc.

FYI @chuckwendig.bsky.social

holy shit

I finished your Black River Orchard recently. Holy hell. That was so good!

Come visit! lyndfruitfarm.com/events-and-a...

this is the america i want to live in

The only correct use of the second amendment.

I've seen pumpkin catapults before, but never an apple cannon! Mind: blown.

I'm holding out for the pumpkin trebuchet.

As god intended

North of Seattle, I think it was in Skagit County? there was a farm that planted U-pick pumpkins, and the last time we went (a number of years ago) they had two of those cannons but for pumpkins.

Where's the scold to say "they're wasting apples!"?

He told another user the apples were already rotten and thus unfit for human consumption. It's more entertaining to get rid of spoiled produce this way than to toss it in a compost bin.

Oh, they showed up and wanted to know why the apples were not given to the homeless.

IN GEORGIA IT WAS A CORN CANNON. My inner-white trash heart was BEAMING!

Wow! Leave it to America to weaponize a fruit. LMAO!

at mine you can shoot at horses (far enough away so you have to shoot ballistically and they land soft). the horses love it and eat the apples.

WHEN YOU SEE A CANNON WHICH SHOOTS APPLES TO A CAR

“Apple Cannon” sounds like a badass cider drink

Damn that looks like a good time

I'm not sure that sight is correcting for the ballistic trajectory. But yes, this is the use of apples that God intended.

"If I Had an Apple Launcher" was a great Bruce Cockburn song from the 80s.

man wandering the fields

It is required 🌻

A journalist outstanding in the field

Heads up for flying apples.

Midsommar (2019)

It’s Stephen King’s Children of the Sunflowers.

untill hit by an apple

Love it!

Boku no Natsuyasumi IRL www.youtube.com/watch?v=779c...

Literally was also thinking about that video, lol

Everyday I look for a moment that makes me laugh. This was it. I'm grateful.

Hmmm. Very tall man or very short sunflowers?

Rare to see a vest in action

It's He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

Charlottesville is such a beautiful city in a beautiful setting.

I grew 10 foot ones in Brooklyn this summer.

I hope you basked. I hope you frolicked!

You wouldn’t by chance be at Summer’s Farm in Frederick?

ARE YOU MEETING WOKE ANTIFA THERE?

Proof that you are known to be out standing in your field.

the boy and i legitimately could have spent an hour shooting that cannon

I legit could have spent that hour downrange trying to catch them apples.

Lmao - new dad achievement level unlocked

Potato cannons are a quick, fun parent-child science project! Pvc pipes, BBQ lighter, can of aquanet. www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Potat...

dudes rock 😌

Firing apples sounds like fun but they should switch to pears, avocados and/or papayas they would be more ideally shaped to serve as ammo and would give them a better chance of hitting their target.

pomegranates! grenades were supposedly named after them

yes! you could just clip off the pomegranate "pin" to make them even more aerodynamic.

Avocados might do some damage with those pits 😄

true!

Your accuracy isn't great...

This is what America is for

The best kind of gun?

That sound is so satisfying

As a kid, we used to take the apples on the ground, poke them with a stick, and push a lady finger into the hole. Then we proceeded to throw apple grenades at each other

I just spent 5 minutes watching this video

makes a brilliant noise

Only an hour?

There’s a farm with a pumpkin cannon a couple hours south of L.A. and my kid never let me have a turn

Weaponizing their father's love against them. Smart kid, they'll do alright.

The dad of a friend of mine made a homemade potato gun. The hours that were spent shooting that thing...

Your dog will also love chasing potatoes shot out of the potato gun!

Have you been to shoot the freak in coney island? Maybe the greatest american entertainment invention of all time

Those cannons are deeply satisfying. Great *kachunk*

Oh man!

Go to Greenfield, NH in October, for pumpkins thrown by a trebuchet.

This is hilarious. I want a coconut cannon.

Oh SHIT

And a car in the line of fire?

This is what Trump and the GOP want to take away from us

Every fall we go to a corn maize and they have a row of apple cannons. It’s awesome.

there's a whole herd of corpulent deer downrange of those targets.

And yellow jackets

where is this place and is it worth driving to?

endlessviewfarms.com

thank you for this!!

Want to thank you so much for sharing about this place! Took my family there today after your recc and had a lovely time. Lots of great seasonal kids activities and stunning scenery!

🧐

As one does. :)

Honestly I was expecting a more simplistic design from Tim Cook

John Wick Appleseed

This is an awesome Saturday with a kid! Or not.

I hope you saved the seeds.

not sure how common this is, but I once went to a pumpkin farm that used a huge compressed air cannon to shoot a pumpkin like a quarter mile, and it was legit one of the funniest things I've ever seen in real life

Granny Smith & Wesson

that's what they use in the Core.

Ok that was a great call and response.

This reply didn't fall far from the tree

S&W Pink Ladysmith

So fun!

When you need your produce delivered quickly.

GUNNER MACKINTOSH INFANTRY

We went to a place that had an apple cannon as well, and it was so fun!!!

oh wow, right on, I want to try one

cc @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org 🍎💣

Making apple sauce the most american way possible.

Perfect remedy for the ubiquitous 30-50 feral hogs. youtu.be/iE6eMx9kr4c?...

From my cold, dead hands! (and I’m Canadian!) lewisagritainment.com/a-homepage-s...

My god, the doctors won’t stand a chance.

So, imma say that "sight" is just for 'looks'. 🤣

Looks like a semi-applematic action.

Criss cross applesauce

so.... an iCannon?

I want an apple cannon! 🍏🍎🍎🍏

Gorgeous

One for you

Fun

I went to this one once! Nice place

When the sun shines, their heads follow the sun through the sky. When it’s cloudy and dreary they turn to face each other.

Those fields are a remarkable surprise when you drive into view unexpectedly.

What a beautiful picture. 🌻

❤️

Based. Enjoy.

Begs me to say, Slava Ukraini!

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Cool 😊

An excellent idea!

Sunflower farms are my favourite 🌻

I once wrote a short story about an evil scarecrow in a field of mature sunflowers that manipulated the moping sunflowers and made them shoot the sunflower seeds at protagonist like they were sentry guns. I was really proud of my imagination in coming up with that.

Man outside St. Louis has a sunflower lawn but keeps being harassed by the city. youtu.be/HCS2b-a9DX4?...

the composition of this photo is so cool! every line leading to the subject with various degrees of subtlety. it'd make a great reference for a crowded street, i imagine

Your description made me see it! Thanks 🫶🏽💙

i bet they all turn around to face you when you walk by ☺️

It is that time! We have a huge one near us in Lawrence we need to take a drive to. www.explorelawrence.com/things-to-do...

I love this 🌻🌻🌻 farm!! We go every year!! 💙💙

Was it this guys? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCS2...

Okay no need to flex so hard. Now my partner is angry at me for not being in a sunflower farm. Reported. /s in case it isn’t obvious. Pretty.

there's even a soundtrack for that kind of field trip

Going to my local farm in a little while for tomatoes. They have sunflowers too! Hope you had a nice time.

Round here they grow seed stock sunflowers. After the females get fertilized and set seed, all the males get beheaded prior to harvesting

Reminds me of detassling corn when i was a kid.

Sounds like a bitch of a job!

Beautifully tragic

💕 Yes.

Slava Ukraini

The sky, it's beautiful.

Living!! 🌻

There is a sunflower farm near where I live which is a popular spot for photo buffs. And I do not use the term lightly as it is requested that everyone please leave their clothes on during photo sessions as there are children in the area. ☺️

🌻 a very nice break from all rhe “things” 🙃

Splendid

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This would make an excellent desktop photo, the perfect vibe for when you are searching for My Computer.

Burnside Farms?