Apple Festival 2018 at UBC

The UBC Apple Festival has been on my radar for several years, especially since Jane (from our running group) told me about Salish apples. They're relatively new and hard to find. She mentioned a small market near Nanaimo Street had them last year, but I never ran across any.

Then this year many of us in the running group have signed up to run the Fall Classic event at UBC so it was suggested that we pre-run the course on the same Saturday as the Apple Festival, which started at 11 a.m., giving us ample time to run first.

Of course I bought a bag of Salish, plus I decided to try Organic Winter Banana apples. How could I not want to try an apple infused with a hint of banana?

The one thing I find curious about the event however is that after you pay your 5 bucks entrance fee there is another 5 buck fee to enter the tasting area. In my humble opinion, the initial $5 should cover the whole event. That's just my 2 cents worth.

The apples are delicious, BTW!