Stillwater Valley Orchard and Apiary

10/27/2024

The photo to the right is a vinegar mother, which forms in the vinegar making process. The Mother of Vinegar’s role is to convert alcohol into acetic acid. Our vinegar tests out at 4.1-4.5 Acetic Acid. Our Pear and Apple Cider Vinegar are crisp, fruity and light! This M.O.V. was taken from our Pear Cider Vinegar batch. This M.O.V. is the largest and thickest I have encountered. We will have our handcrafted vinegars at the following markets in November.

GRACE HOLIDAY MARKET
Greater Cincinnati Holiday Market
Historic Springboro Christmas

www.stillwatervalleyorchard.com

09/20/2024

One bag, 50 + FREE gifts PRE ORDER - PICK UP ONLY. PICK UP IS AT THE GRACE HOLIDAY MARKET, November 2nd + 3rd, 2024 at 932 Cook Rd, Lebanon Ohio 45036. Purchase includes: reusable Grace Tote, passport + 50 small gifts/ promos. Proof of purchase is required to receive your Grace bag. Please screen sh...

08/28/2024

🍎butter made with 20 plus heirloom apple varieties and raw local honey all sourced from the verdant Stillwater River Valley available this Saturday Oakwood Farmers Market, 9-12! See you there!
www.stillwatervalleyorchard.com (shipping, free local delivery and porch pick up available)

08/26/2024

The photo is apple pomace, what is left after you press all the juice out in a press.
Johnny Appleseed, or John Chapman collected this apple pomace free of charge from cider mills. It is full of thousands of apple seeds. He would find clearings in the wilderness and sow the apple seeds to create apple tree nurseries.
He would then sell the apple seedling trees to homesteaders that settled on unsettled free land providing they planted at least 50 apple trees within 3 years of their claim.
Johnny Appleseed, was not only an entrepreneur but he was a missionary for the Swedenborg Christian sect, which one of their beliefs was that apple trees were not to be grafted, but grown from their seed. Apple seeds do not copy their parents but create their own unique variety which just about always results in an apple fit only to make hard cider due to their very high tannin and tartness. Once in a while the perfect unique variety of the perfect eating apple will result from a seed.
Unfortunately, one needs 30-40 years to find out what tree your fruit produces.

08/24/2024

If you’re in the Springboro area check out ARTfest on Main from 10-5! Full of great art and artists and a wonderful farmers market! See you there!

07/27/2024

Great family event! I will be there with our Stillwater products! See you there!

07/24/2024

Our business tag line is “A Taste of History” It is a joy to bring the unique flavors and continuity of rare apples ranging from Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe through Colonial America to our customers!
Apple butter is the perfect vessel to blend all these great historical apples into one jar!
Apple butter is great on bread, yogurt, cream cheese, cottage cheese, chicken, pork and ice cream!
America alone had up to over 4,000 varieties of apples just 150 years ago. 90 percent of all variety of seed has been lost in the last 100 years.
Keeping what is left in food genetic variability can not be overstated enough in the agricultural future that has been planned for us all.
www.stillwatervalleyorchard.com

07/20/2024

Today and tomorrow I am set up Johnston Farm & Indian Agency in the Cider House from 12-5. Apple, Pear and Crabapple Butter from our orchard and local honey! Bring the family for a great event that celebrates Ohio History!

07/19/2024

Bring your family to this interesting event! You must experience the canal boat ride! Of course, I will have our heirloom apple butter at the farm’s Cider House! See you there!

Join us this weekend!