Kelloggsville Farm Cidery and Winery

06/03/2026

Owasco Farmers Market is open!

05/30/2026

Aurora Farmers Market, Wells College Boathouse, Aurora, NY is open! Sun is out too.

05/21/2026

Working on a new style slightly messed up the diameter which lead to lots of jiggering! With Robert G. Gallasch

05/12/2026

Soaking some natural willow which takes about a day a foot. Stars and maybe a few basket bottoms. Might even get a few star wands done!

05/11/2026

Getting everything ready for the start of the Farm Market season. We will be at Owasco Farmers Market a few Wednesdays a month, Aurora Farmers Market, Wells College Boathouse, Aurora, NY 3 Saturdays a month, The Good Neighbor Grocery 1 or 2 Wednesdays a month. We have only 6 bottles of Raspberry unless I missed a case so order in advance. All the other ciders are fully stocked.

Violetta is resting up so she will be full of energy to meet you. Cheers!

05/11/2026

Does food taste better from Grumpy Goat Pottery bowls? Not willing to risk it! Yummy Saag Paneer.

05/11/2026

What we do when the cider tanks are empty and all the pumps are stored away

05/10/2026

05/10/2026

Finally found some time to make a willow craft from some Buff willow we bought

04/17/2026

I have all these!! We have some planting to do. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1K842evtUN/

Most companion planting guides hand you the same list no matter the tree. An apple tree faces codling moth larvae boring into fruit, scab fungus spreading through humid canopies, and voles chewing bark under winter snow. A generic guild ignores all three.

The apple guild is built around those exact threats — and every plant pulls a specific shift.

🌿 The inner team works the ground floor:
- White clover carpets the root zone — fixing atmospheric nitrogen while keeping soil cool and moist beneath the canopy
- Chives at the drip line throw an aromatic wall that disorients codling moth before she finds the fruit
- Garlic chives add sulfur compounds into the soil that suppress apple scab spore germination
- Nasturtiums sprawl at the edges pulling aphid colonies off apple foliage like a living decoy

🌱 The outer crew handles what the inner ring can't:
- Daffodil bulbs form a toxic alkaloid barrier underground that voles refuse to cross — even under snow
- Comfrey drives its taproot six feet down and mines the potassium that fuels fruit set
- Bee balm times its peak bloom to the apple flower window — recruiting native pollinators at the exact moment the tree needs them

Seven plants that turn a sprayed, fertilized, struggling apple tree into a system that feeds and defends itself 🍎