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Richters Orchard in Northport celebrate more
than 100 years of history

Richters
Orchard is all decorated for the holidays. <br>
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<b>News 12's </b>Danielle Campbell is in Northport with a sneak peak
of what they are serving up for the holidays. 

Richters Orchard is all decorated for the holidays. 

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All right, Alex call me here to tell us today is the day to everything. Yeah, because of the rain coming later on in the weekend. Enjoy today. Absolutely. I mean, you see the radars clear today's 56 peaks of sun, definitely some generous cloud cover, but 60 on Sunday is not going to feel so good. It's a soaker. We've got a train of rain coming in from the Gulf of Mexico and that's going to bring in warm air. Yes, but it's gonna bring a lot of wind too. And so we have two threats, flooding and wind tomorrow today. Come on. This is fantastic. We're in the thirties now with a little bit of frost but mid forties by 9 a.m. we're hitting 50 way before brunch time and we're in the fifties all day Sunday morning. Little different feel it's warmer but it's cloudy with a stray shower at 9 a.m. A big rain risk for brunch lunch plans on Sunday afternoon. We may see a few soakers and then plenty of rain. 234 o'clock in the afternoon. Look at this just on and off downpours all day. The wind starts to pick up after sunset, seven o'clock at night, it's warmer than the afternoon because the wind is coming in straight from the south 40 mile per hour wind here, this is 11 o'clock at night. Probably the worst of the wind is going to be somewhere between eight o'clock at night. And about five o'clock in the morning, we could see some localized flooding because look at how much rain we end up with 2 to 3 inches across the island. And then also the possibility of some overnight power outages. So you'll want to be prepared for that, maybe strap those Christmas decorations down today.

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Richters Orchard in Northport celebrates more than 100 years of history

alright. It's an orchard with more than a century's worth of history and now Richter's apple orchard is all decorated for the holidays. Let's get to news? 12 Long Island Danielle Campbell, she's in Northport right now, showing us some great stuff there, Daniel. I've been seeing some sneak peeks of where you are. I'm telling you this is one of my favorite places. I'm you know, I love Long Island, but Richter's apple orchard right in Northport off Pulaski Road. It's like this little secret stepping back in time. They've been here 100 and 22 years but moving 223 LJ Amsler, his dad, Lewis and his uncle Andy had been running the orchard now. They brought it from the Richters and that's why he kept the name. But tell me a little bit about the history here. My grandfather graduated Farmingdale college in 1936 4 and came here to work for Mr Richter. And then when World War Two started he treated his ag deferment and joined the seabees which were like the mechanics and he went and served his time and mr Richter got sick and was on his deathbed. And so he came back to finish the deal to buy the orchard off him. But Mr Richter didn't make it. So he bought it off the family and kept the name out of respect. So we've been running it ever since. Yeah, it's amazing. So tell me how many, you know acres, how many apples we got? 23 acres. It's mostly apples, few peaches, small number of pairs and the cider mill keeps us going real well. And you've really been the cider mill master, you've taken over for your folks. Yeah, I took over for dad 10 years ago and I've been the head cider maker since. Yeah. And tell us about the cider. You have a special blend? Yes. So we make a holiday blend, which we grow an old variety of cider apple for makes a little tartar, tangier crispier. It's a it's a special apple. And I just love all the artifacts you have here too because you have everything from really Long Island's old farming days. You have stuff from farms that used to be here before the houses. Yes, yes. When farms closed up, everyone would bring my grandfather the stuff they left behind. So we've got saddles and buckets and saws and all the leftover tidbits. I know it's really fabulous. And when you come in and talk to Andy Lewis L. J. You get to hear a lot of stories about good old fashioned Long Island. This is an Empire apple. Can I tell you delicious. It's my breakfast and apples are right. The cure for everything. All right back to you guys. I'm gonna have another bite. An apple day apparently keeps everything away. I like it. Bring him on back

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