Agriculture and Farming
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Snow Saved Apples from Frost, November 2011
Lookin’ trendy in the bins. When the weather service starts predicting overnight lows around 20-25 degrees F, harvest gets crazy. A few hours at around 22 degrees will destroy the cell walls within an apple. Most years, not much of the crop still hangs in the open air when hard-freeze scares begin. But in late [...]
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News Too Much To Fit
Seriously, we all know, the more that goes on the less time there is to write about it. Bulletins below. 1. Farmstand: Unbelievably wet days chained together during much of September, rain coming down like the bars of a cage, particularly during the traditionally apple-mad weekend at the end of the month. But people have [...]
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Winter Pruning at Poverty Lane Orchards
Welcome to the fields in winter! Thanks to Sawyer Broadley, a talented, helpful and patient video guy. PRUNING at POVERTY LANE ORCHARDS
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Julian Temperley’s Orchards
From The Telegraph’s Rose Prince comes an article on Steve’s colleague (and friend) Julian Temperley. Excerpts below, or check out the full article, which includes a nod to Temperley’s fashion-designer daughter, Alice. While waiting for the second coming, we make do with celebrity chefs as saviours. Not that they are doing a bad job. Hugh [...]
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Spring notes from Steve
From Steve’s “about to leave, going to talk apples in Virginia” note…. Spring is springing here, and we’re relieved. We’ve finally had a normal winter and early spring – no terrifying hot spells, especially in March. The trees are waking up at a gentle pace now, but will get pretty excited over the next few [...]
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Cider News Roundup…It’s Spring!
Hope springs eternal! The resurgence of the cider category (and news thereof….) means we are all hoping that cider is going to be a fact of American imbibing. The charming Chris Lehault (I just met him last month at famed beer geek mecca, NYC’s Blind Tiger) of Serious Eats/Serious Drinks/The Cider Press, shines a spotlight [...]
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Cider…the (manly?) libation of our forebears
We’ve known for a while that apples grow well in various climates throughout this country. A recent article by Mike Gruss of the Virginian-Pilot highlights legislation to support the work of orchardists and cider makers who enjoy a kinder, gentler climate than we do. Kudos to our colleagues at Foggy Ridge Ciders and Albemarle CiderWorks, [...]
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Cider News Roundup…mid Feb edition
Greetings all from Poverty Lane and Farnum Hill! We have been quite busy traveling, shoveling snow, and launching our Dooryard cider on draft in New York, Boston and the beloved New Hampshire home market. But happily, we find that cider is again made the news, so here’s a quick sampling of what we’ve found recently. [...]
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Fruit to Glass, Making Real Cider
From cider fan and Serious Eats writer Chris Lehault comes another instructive article about cider. He’s totally right – true cider starts in the orchard. From the ciderriffic Mr. Lehault: Developing a delicious hard cider is no easy feat. From farmer to scientist to master blender, aspiring cidermakers take on a variety of roles through [...]
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Holiday Gifts: Land Protection, Cider Apples
Happy holiday news for the Upper Valley, from the Upper Valley Land Trust website: The Plainfield Cider Orchard has been protected through a conservation easement purchased from landowners Steve Wood and Peter Williamson in a bargain sale, with support from the New Hampshire Land & Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) [see New Hampshire Partners with [...]
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Sweet Cider thoughts from NPR
T. Susan Chang offers some thoughts on that other cider, the brown, sweet kind from NPR’s Kitchen Window…. Apples. From the moment their season starts, they’re the Miss America of fruit, piled high in the supermarket, tucked into your kid’s lunchbox, hanging heavy and low in the orchards like original sin itself. You may like [...]
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Holiday Gifting for Cider Geeks, revised
It’s a big day for Northwest cider and Northwest Cidermakers — the publication of their of Washington State University’s long awaited publication “Hard Cider Production and Orchard Management in the Pacific Northwest.” So instead of the latest best seller or Harry Potter knock-off, we recommend this for the cider geek on your holiday list. And [...]
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Retail Done, Pressing and Wholesale Go On
Never have we had so few eating apples left on October 31! A few boxes of Lady, not a Mac, Cortland any other tasty variety to be found. But all in all the retail season was much more fun than we anticipated. People liked the Orchard Info Walk, but they abandoned it completely when we [...]
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Cider and Apple News Roundup
Yup, it’s fall! So the cider news ticker is exploding. Some of our recent mentions for your perusal follow… From the lovely and talented Sarah Chappell on Palate Press, an overview of cider today in the US. This segment makes the cut due to David Flaherty’s spot-on description of Steve Wood, our very own grower [...]
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Pick-Your-Own 2010 (Seek Your Own?) is so much fun!
Sounds kind of obvious perhaps but the iffiness of Pick-Your-Own this year has reminded us of how much we love it. The Big 2010 Apple Shortage originally caused us to decide against offering PYO at the start of the season. Then after two weeks in the retail tent with no pick-your-own we opened up Big [...]
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Xerces Society and Poverty Lane Orchards
The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs. Recently, the Xerces Society mentioned Steve’s commitment to habitat preservation [...]
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Orchard Walk less walked… for now
October 1st: Though a perfectly swell idea, the ‘Didja-Know’ walk has been very lightly trodden since 2010-style Pick-Your-Own started last Saturday. Farmstand Hours This actually is good for us, because it allows more time to add new intriguing posters before the END of Pick-Your-Own. Ordinarily, as PYO ends, the retail tent features a grand and [...]
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NH News Coverage of Poverty Lane/Farnum Hill
Poverty Lane Orchards and Farnum Hill Ciders were featured in the local press recently, for quite entirely different reasons. On Thursday, July 15, our local paper wrote about the recent Value Added Producers Grant we received through the US Department of Agriculture. This grant, matched with our own funds, will help us develop the market [...]
