Sweet Apple Acres is the family farm/orchard located near Ponyville, home to Applejack, Big McIntosh, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith. The property contains a farm house, a barn and several apple orchards, depicted throughout the series. According to Lauren Faust, Sweet Apple Acres was originally called "Big Apple Orchard".^[1]

EpisodesEdit

Sweet Apple Acres is shown for the first time in Friendship is Magic, part 1. It primarily grows apples, though corn, carrots, and exactly 24,567,837 blades of grass grow there as well, (shown in The Return of Harmony Part 1, The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, and Spike at Your Service) Grapes may also grow there, often crushed by hoof for juice as shown in Sisterhooves Social. In Apple Family Reunion it was shown that the west orchard was abandoned after flocks of fruit bats settled there. One grove is dedicated to growing magic Zap Apples, as shown in Family Appreciation Day, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders have a clubhouse, which used to belong to Applejack, in a tree on a secluded part of the farm.

Two of the more popular products the family produces are Granny Smith's zap apple jam, and apple cider during cider season, both of which ponies are willing to wait in long lines for. Apples are also sold, but are less popular, as seen in Call of the Cutie.

Farm animals being raised are pigs living in the barn seen in The Show Stoppers, a chicken coop for eggs shown in Owl's Well That Ends Well, and sheep shown in Sisterhooves Social. Applejack owns a working dog named Winona who also lives on the farm.

Every year, the farm hosts the Sisterhooves Social, a Rodeo-type, sisterly bonding event for older and younger sisters. In the episode Sisterhooves Social, Applejack and Apple Bloom take part in it, as well as Rarity and Sweetie Belle.

GalleryEdit

Sweet Apple Acres image gallery

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Lauren Faust on Twitter (2013-03-15). Retrieved on 2013 March 15.

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