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It's apple cider season, and you can see it made

Field manager Darrel Henry picking Red Delicious apples

Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Field manager Darrel Henry picking Red Delicious apples at Richters Orchards in Northport, one of three places on Long Island that lets the public watch as they make apple cider. (Sept. 16, 2010)

Walk into the cider house at Richters Orchard in Northport and you'll immediately notice an intense scent: the smell of the freshest, juiciest apple you can imagine. But you won't be biting into any fruit here, where the business is fresh-squeezed cider.

Richters is one of six local orchards that still presses its own apple cider this time of year - and one of only three which allow the public...

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