As most of you know, we lost our entire crop last year (2023) due to an exceptionally late and cold May freeze. For us people, business owners with bills to pay, this felt like a loss. For the apple trees, I suspect it felt more like an extended vacation. An entire growing season of photosynthsizing…
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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