By Erin James Apple orchards are some of the few agricultural endeavors in North America that can count multiple generations in their tenured histories. Washington Depot, Connecticut-based Averill...
By Erin James Farming is in Paul Kolling's genes and results of said farming is on his jeans. As the fourth generation in his line of family farmers, Kolling was a geoscientist by trade but was...
By Erin James Home to 1,500 cider apple trees, production facility, family farm and home, Dragon's Head Cider is a microculture of its own. Owned-and-operated by Wes and Laura Cherry, the Vashon,...
After spending half a year at a vineyard in southern France, Jason MacArthur fell smitten with cider. Fifteen years later, he and his wife, Lauren, matured that infatuation and opened their own...
Hard cider in the United States has seen a few ups and downs on the popularity scale over the years, and while craft ciders are increasingly desired these days, apple-fermented drinks of all kinds...
Salem, Oregon’s Wandering Aengus Ciderworks uses heirloom apple varieties and fosters a strong relationship between cidermaker and fruit when creating cider. The same approach is used for their...