Images: Behind the scenes at Kuipers Family Farm
Leo Guiterrez extracts the pressings from the grinder to be later used as fertilizer in the orchard.
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Manuel Rivera loads a bin of apples into the washer to before being processed into apple cider.
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Manuel Rivera brings in a bin of apples to be processed into apple cider.
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Apples travel up the conveyor into the grinder where the juice is extracted from the apples.
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After undergoing a pasteurizing process, the cider is then bottled into gallon jugs.
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Manuel Rivera fills a rack of freshly bottled apple cider to be sold in the store.
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Manuel Rivera brings out another bin of apples to start the apple cider process all over again.
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Manuel Rivera brings in a bin of apples into the cooler to be processed later into apple cider.
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