The Apple Harvest Festival market at Retzer Nature Center, S14-W28167 Madison St., will offer more than 50 varieties of apples, delicious homemade apple pie, caramel apples and  apple cider.

The 23^rd annual festival on Sept. 19 will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

More than 4,000 people are expected to attend the event sponsored by AppleTree Credit Union and the Waukesha County Park System.

The fest includes a children’s area with crafts, games, horse-drawn hayrides from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and orchard tours with Johnny Appleseed at 10:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m.

Adults can learn composting from 12 to 1 p.m. and rain gardens from 1:30 to 2 p.m. A silent auction will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Shows at the Charles Z. Horwitz Planetarium will begin every half hour from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Enter a pie in the apple pie baking contest by 10:30 a.m. and have it judged at 11 a.m.

Admission is $5 per car.  For more information, call Retzer at (262) 896-8007 or visit www.waukeshacountyparks.com. Show an AppleTree Credit Union membership card and get in for free.