In Vermont, iPods grow on trees! Well, sort of.  The “Apples to iPods” event is back again throughout Vermont apple orchards this fall and there are even more iPods to win.

This season, we’re hiding specially-marked wooden apples in each of Vermont’s pick-your-own orchards. Apple pickers who find a wooden apple hanging from a tree will win an Apple iPod Nano, Shuffle or Touch from Vermont’s Apple Specialist, Small Dog Electronics.

All twenty-four of Vermont’s pick-your-own orchards (printable version) are participating and each one of them will have a hidden wooden apple just ripe for the picking! Find one and you get an iPod (as if the delicious apples you’ve picked along the way weren’t enough).

As generations of visitors and Vermonters well-know, apple picking is one of the most popular activities in the state during Vermont’s stunning foliage season. There is something truly special about spending an amazing fall day in the hills of Vermont surrounded by the sweet smell of fresh apples and picking them with your own hands. Adding a free iPod to your bounty only makes it that much more special.

Only in Vermont – where our legislature named the apple as our state fruit and the apple pie our state pie – will you find such a unique harvest as “Apples to iPods.” Vermont has almost 4,000 acres of commercial apple production, and the state’s leading apple varieties are McIntosh, Cortland, Red Delicious and Empire.

“Apples to iPods” is sponsored in partnership by the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and Small Dog Electronics.

For a fresh perspective and even fresher apples, find yourself apple-picking in Vermont this fall, where tradition meets innovation. Because once you’ve had a taste of an iPod from a Vermont apple orchard, you may never look at an apple tree the same way again!

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Official Rules and Regulations:
* No employees of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing or the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets are eligible for this contest.
* No employees from Small Dog Electronics are eligible for this contest.
* No employees of participating apple orchards are eligible for this contest.
* The wooden apples must be presented to the apple orchard for confirmation. The person who finds the wooden apple has the option to keep it after it is shown to the apple orchard for verification purposes.
* Forms must be filled out and handed in to participating orchard.
* Winners must contact Small Dog Electronics to claim prize either by phone (802-496-7171) or e-mail (sales@smalldog.com).
* Each orchard has a designated prize of either an iPod shuffle, nano OR touch; winning iPod will be revealed upon submission to Small Dog.