Tag Archives: cider history
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FHC in 2 More Books
Following our new policy of mentioning cider books that mention us, we warmly recommend the newest edition of ‘Cider, Hard and Sweet,’ a neo-classic by our friend Ben Watson, first published a decade ago. Ben has done more to cultivate this country’s renewed acquaintance with cider and its pleasures than anyone else we know of. […]
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News Too Much To Fit
OLD NEWS: 2012. 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 poured into the orchards during the drier times and trooped in pretty steadily during the soggy bits. […]
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Cider News Roundup, pre-harvest edition
Well, summer is coming to a close at Poverty Lane Orchards. We’ve noticed that as temperatures drop, the cider world comes to life. So before we get even farther behind on our scan of cider news, here’s an update from near and far. (CW) First, a huge congratulations and shout out to the Northwest Cider […]
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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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In A Time Before Refrigeration…..
All Cider was Hard. So begins Jim Collins from Yankee Magazine, who wrote about Farnum Hill Ciders in the September/October article, First Light: A House Where Cider Rules. He visited Poverty Lane Orchards last year to interview Steve, and I remember being impressed with — or surprised by — the lead time Yankee requested. But […]
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Listen to Cider History
Got about 15 minutes? Interested in hearing about early American cider traditions? It is well worth your time, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ radio show, With Good Reason. This interview with Dr. David Williams traces the colonial history of cider, explains how large a “tankard” of cider really is (a half-gallon) and […]
