This last week we went and rolled the grapes. So the process
of picking grapes and turning them into raisins is kinda hard and it makes me
extra excited for college, because there is no way that I want to be out
picking grapes and whatever other fruit for a job.
Grape picking starts out
with a knife and you cut the grapes off the vine and put them in a big circle
tray. Then you empty the tray onto a thing of paper that is about the size of
four paper towel squares. The grapes sit on the water proof paper for two weeks,
then when the grapes have dried into raisins, you roll them up. Then after
another week, you can box them up and ship them out.
So, if you eat a pack of
Sun Maid raisins in a while, I might have picked them. If not, then I am in the
area where they picked them and boxed them up. Kinda cool huh? And a lot of
hard work. It was fun for a day, and I'm glad I finally got a chance to work in the vineyards.
