It’s May, it’s May, Summer Cider is a-coming in! Or out! Anyway, it’s available! This seasonal blend aims to please its old friends and win new ones because hey, we Yanks are still a bit slow to know the seasonable truth: cider — good cider –  is the perfect hot-weather companion! So begone,  those static [...]

Dooryard is an old/new idea, typical of Poverty Lane Orchards. Many cider orchards abroad do big business in the yard, to local customers who come to fill their empties with whatever the cidermaker dispenses that day. In 2008 we began seeing enough cider explorers here to do the same. Starting last year, bottles and kegs [...]

Deja Vu: BUD SCARE                               We-e-e-ll… it’s another tense springtime in the fields. The buds popped a month early, blossom started three and a half weeks too soon. So day-to-day, the question has been “Will they freeze tonight?”  On several recent nights thermometers have dropped to 25F, creating acres and acres of uncertainty. Considering land contours, [...]