Tree to Table: Hudson River Fruit Distributors to Heritage Food + Drink

MILTON and WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — Four generations of Albinders have run Hudson River Fruit Distributors, a smidge more than an hour's drive from New York City.

These days, the fourth generation is taking on more as Alisha Albinder Camac, the vice president of sales and marketing, is a partner in ownership of restaurants with her husband, Jesse Camac. One restaurant, Heritage Food + Drink, has an Apple Crisp for Two dessert featuring local apples — including Hudson's. Marcus Albinder, Alisha's younger brother, has recently taken on the role of operations manager and gave us a tour of the orchards and the packing house.

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This video was shot during New York's peak harvesting season in the Lower Hudson Valley in mid-September. The company's apples are stored in cold warehouses for differing times depending on the variety and best-tasting times. The company also has farms elsewhere and packs and ships apples from other farms.

These apples, from macintosh to SnapDragon, also end up in supermarket shelves, sometimes in totes with Apples from New York labels.

Ride along with us as we take this apple journey.

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