2024 Apprenticeship at Eve’s Cidery

By evescidery | Jan 30, 2024

Are you interested in learning how to make cider, grow apples, or run a small farm based business? Or maybe you just like to eat apples, get muddy and work really hard? Consider our 2024 farm apprenticeship at Eve’s Cidery. Come be part of our family farm and learn about growing apples specifically for cider…

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Frost Update

By evescidery | Sep 4, 2023

Biggest bloom ever this spring As you may have heard, we lost our entire crop in a freak weather event on May 18th. With bloom behind us and most varieties in the 2-4mm fruitlet stage of phenological development, we experienced 5 hours at 25 degrees fahrenheit. We still haven’t quite wrapped our heads around it.…

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Spring 2023 Buds and Blooms

By evescidery | Apr 28, 2023

Apple bud phenology is a measure of time, one that doesn’t run parallel to the clock or calendar, an alternate dimension that most orchardists live in each spring from the moment the buds break dormancy to the final fruit set in mid-summer. These days, it’s too cliche to say “warmer than normal”, “earlier than normal”,…

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2023 Apprenticeship

By evescidery | Jan 11, 2023

Are you interested in learning how to make cider, grow apples, or run a small farm based business? Or maybe you just like to eat apples, get muddy and work really hard? Consider our 2023 farm apprenticeship at Eve’s Cidery. Come be part of our family farm and learn about growing apples specifically for cider…

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Fall 2022 Harvest Report

By evescidery | Sep 25, 2022

As the 2022 growing season enters its harvest season I am finding stark beauty in the way that nature finds its equilibrium. Our orchard is not a machine, a unit of production. It is a living breathing ecosystem. And this year, much like the wild apple trees, it is resting after last year’s massively abundant…

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Interview with the Label Artist

By evescidery | May 5, 2022

Interview with the Artist   Autumn interviews Leila   A: Describe your background in art. How did you get started, who and what has supported/influenced you?   L: I am very blessed to be raised in an artistic family. My grandmother is a painter and former dancer, my grandfather a sculptor, my nana a writer…

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Autumn’s Nut Cake

By evescidery | Dec 10, 2021

Autumn’s Nut Cake This simple cake can be made with walnuts or pecans, or if you are lucky, shagbark hickory nuts!   Ingredients: 8 ounces ground nuts 8 ounces maple sugar  6 eggs whipped cream for topping is optional   Directions: preheat oven to 350F Seperate the eggs Beat the yolks with the maple sugar…

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Thoughts on Cider and Reparations

By evescidery | Dec 10, 2021

Photo on page 5 of The Apples of New York by Beech et al. (1) In her 2017 book, The Ghost Orchard (2), Helen Humphreys writes that white settlers made cider from the apples born on the trees that sprouted and regrew from Indian orchards girdled by General Sullivan’s army in 1779. She quotes a…

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Harvest Report 2021

By evescidery | Nov 15, 2021

We knew, given our light crop in 2020, that the spring might bring a heavy bloom. We didn’t expect the bloom we saw though, because it was like nothing we had ever seen. Trees so covered in blossoms that they looked like white clouds. It wasn’t just the apples though…all over our hillside it was…

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2021 Apprenticeship

By evescidery | Dec 30, 2020

Are you interested in learning how to make cider, grow apples, or run a small farm based business? Consider our 2021 farm apprenticeship at Eve’s Cidery. Come be part of our family farm and learn about growing apples specifically for cider with over 50 different traditional cider varieties on a certified organic and bio-intensively managed…

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