Each October New York state residents are invited to participate in the “Big Apple Crunch.” On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Salem Central School District students, faculty, and staff gathered with apples in hand to take a bite out of an apple grown in New York to celebrate the apple harvest and inspire us all to “Eat Local.”
Through the coordination of Wendy Cary, the district’s Food Service Director, and PE Teacher Miriam Nesle, the group formed “I Love (in the shape of a heart) NY.” Mrs. Cary said approximately 480 McIntosh apples grown by Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook, NY were distributed. Technology Teacher Todd DeSoto commemorated the event by taking aerial videos and photos with a drone used in his classes