Join the Kingstowne Communion, Franconia UMC, and Nalls Produce as we love our neighbors with an all-day community apple butter slow-cook where all proceeds go straight to Rising Hope Mission. Apple Butter cooks are an entire community effort! Slow-cooked in a big copper cauldron over a large outdoor fire, they normally take 9-10 hours, including chopping and peeling of bushels of apples, labeling jars, continued fire-kindling, and round-the-clock stirring with a big wooden paddle to be sure it doesn't scorch. And we are hosting ours with the goal of raising at least $4,000 for Rising Hope Mission, a non-profit along the Route 1 corridor resourcing and supporting persons living in poverty in our immediately area of Alexandria, VA. We need the help of our wider community to pull this off, but there are only a certain number of apple-butter-making slots, so we've created some parameters. Here are the steps to participate in the cook: 📋 STEP 1: Sign-up yourself or your family for one of 40+ jar-labeling, stirring, or canning shifts between 9am and 7pm. ♥️ STEP 2:  Then, make your donation here on our Community Apple Butter Cook fundraising page here (suggested donation $40).  📲 STEP 3:  Check back here for updates on our Community Apple Butter Cook leading up to and throughout the cook day of November 16, including announcements in the last few weeks about how you can also purchase additional jars of the final product of fresh-made apple butter.  🍯 STEP 4:  Pick-up your fresh-cooked apple butter at Nalls Produce, after jarring and cooling, anytime between Sunday, November 17 and Friday, November 22, just in time for your Thanksgiving table.