Cider History in the Making
NEW ENGLAND IS ONCE AGAIN making history with cider. For nearly two centuries cider, fresh and hard, was America’s favorite…
Apple Windfall
BY MID-OCTOBER every year our house is brimming with apples and flowing with cider. The apples run the gamut from early…
A Great Glass of Ciders (and You Can Take it Home!)
SATURDAY’S FIRST-EVER SPRING CIDER SOCIAL will bring together the magnificent orchard in bloom; crisp, locally grown apples; impressive guest speakers;…
A Historic Spring Cider Social May 13
GET A TASTE OF SWEET THINGS to come by strolling through an apple orchard in bloom and sipping some of the…
Russets for Walking and Cider
AN APPLE is the perfect walking companion, appealing to all the senses while providing a sweet, healthy energy boost. An apple…
A Gallery of Growers (and Late-Season Apples)
AN APPLE GROWER is many things: A gardener first and foremost, of course, on a grand scale. An arborist; while most…
Apples Good As Gold
MOST PEOPLE think “red” when they think apple. The vast majority of apples feature the color, after all, and popular cultural…
Apples: The Colors of Fall
EVEN BEFORE the leaves turn color, there is every imaginable shade in New England’s apple orchards. Click on the apple’s…
Apple Season in Full Swing
IT WAS A GREAT DAY Saturday for apple lovers of all ages as they flocked to New England apple orchards…
Meet the Apples and Artists
TWO OF NEW ENGLAND’s leading strengths — the diversity of its apples and orchards, and its preeminence in ciders — will…
A Good Crop of Apples (and Art)!
NEW ENGLAND EXPECTS a good apple crop in 2021, a welcome development after last year’s smaller-than-normal one. Apple growers face a…
The Duchess is Waiting
THERE ARE TWO TYPES of early season apples: heirlooms that were once valued for extending the season, and newer varieties…