It is exciting to be picking our first really good eating apple of the season – Pristine. This apple is everything those grocery store apples are not. Including the fact that they are crisp and juicy. Of course they are also extremely prone to bruising so we have to treat these apples as if they were made of glass. This means each is gingerly washed and then packed rather then running them through the produce washer. These delicious gems require some extra labor but it is worth having such a great apple in early August.