October 2017

Harvest Kyerra Townsend

Table of Contents
Origins of Harvest .............................................1
Origins of Harvest
Best Pumpkin Patches.....................................1 Harvest came from the meaning autumn. Now it
is referred to as a season of picking crops. Since
Apple Caramel Cheesecake Bars ....................2 climate around the world is different at times
Jar Lid Pumpkin ................................................2 harvest is found at different times in the year at
different places. . This usually happens between
the months of August and November. Harvest is
a very important time of year, due to it showing
Top 5 Pumpkin when the crops are mature enough to pick.
Patches in America After the crops were in they would then start
1. Jumbos Pumpkin Patch planning for their food for the winter. Two ways
to do this was drying and preserving. Crops you
(Maryland)
would dry would be: fruits and vegetables that
2. Half Moon Bay Pumpkin
dry well. Examples of this would be tomatoes,
Festival (California)
peppers, and apples. Not all food is able to be
3. Papas Pumpkin Patch dried. Preserving food is to mostly store liquids.
(North Dakota) They would use this to preserve fruit spreads.
4. Cool Patch Pumpkins
(California) Harvesting today is a lot different today then
back in the day because of the technology. We
5. Craven Farm
can sit back in tractors and let them do all the
(Washington)
work. Drying and preserving food is not seen as
common as just putting it in a storage bin and
then sent to the grain elevator.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but

buy the seeds you plant
Farming Jokes
Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel Prize?
o Because he was out standing in his
field
What do farmers use to make crop circles?
o A protractor
 Jar Lid Pumpkin
Items Needed:
20 mason jar lid
bands
1 can orange spray
paint
orange yarn
4-inch cinnamon
sticks
Directions
1. Lay out newspapers to spray paint
the mason jar bands.
2. Lay bands out to spray paint them
3. Once lids are dry tie them
together
a. Make sure lids are all the
same direction
4. Wrap a piece of yarn around them
and tie it tight
5. Finally you can put some
cinnamon sticks in the middle to
top it off

Apple Caramel Cheesecake

Bars
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup packed brown
sugar
3/4 cup cold butter, cubed
2 packages (8 ounces each)
cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons
sugar, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
3 medium tart apples,
peeled and finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon ground
cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground
nutmeg
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350
Streusel
2. In a small bowl, combine flour and brown sugar;
3/4 cup all-purpose cut in butter until crumbly. Press into a well-
flour greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake 15-18 minutes
3/4 cup packed or until lightly browned.
brown sugar 3. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, 1/2 cup
1/2 cup quick-cooking sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add eggs; beat on
oats low speed just until combined. Spread over
crust.
1/3 cup cold butter,
4. In a small bowl, toss apples with cinnamon,
cubed
nutmeg and remaining sugar; spoon over cream
1/3 cup hot caramel cheese layer. In another bowl, mix flour, brown
sugar and oats; cut in butter until crumbly.
Sprinkle over apple layer.
5. Bake 25-30 minutes or until filling is set. Drizzle
with caramel topping; cool in pan on a wire rack
1 hour. Refrigerate at least 2 hours. Cut into
bars.