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10/11/2025

Our orchard-based tasting room in West Fulton is open today from 1-6pm. Sunday too. Join us for our last few weekends of retail of the season.

10/04/2025

3 more weekends left at our orchard-based tasting room! Cider specials, dry cider by the glass, local meat and cheese and bottles-to-go. Sat & Sun 1-6pm

09/19/2025

Last tasting room dates of the season! And we’re nearly at peak color on the mountain.

09/17/2025

Public service announcement - our tasting room is open through the end of October. Saturday and Sunday 1-6 PM.

We’ll stop serving drinks on premise starting October 27.

We look forward to seeing you in the final weeks of fall. The most wonderful time of the year!

09/14/2025

Picking Hewe’s & Harry Masters Jersey. And dusting off the old press! Cider season is upon us. We are open through the end of October, 1-6pm Sat & Sun.

09/06/2025

Well, apple picking season has officially begun!

And while we’re still a month away from picking beautiful Harrison apples, we have the last of our Harrison/Porter’s Perfection ciders available this weekend!

Saturday and Sunday 1– 6 p.m.

08/23/2025

Cider season has officially begun! Drop on in.
Sat & Sun 1-6pm.

08/09/2025

Our West Fulton orchard is on steeply-sloped Lordstown Channery Silt. It’s well-drained soil that requires irrigation in mid summer. The ground here is feast or famine; either too wet or too dry. Fortunately, the property is surrounded by mountain springs, so the trees are never thirsty.

The cider apples we grow are biennial in nature and this is an “off year” for most varieties. That being said, there’s a nice crop of Porter’s Perfection, Harrison, Dabinett, Redfield and our dear native bittersweet, Major Harrison’s Fedora. After a decade of planting, these five varieties remain the most consistent croppers.

We’ve been working towards a “just enough” spray program, amidst increasing fungal and insect pressure here at the forest’s edge. To let the trees struggle - just enough - to produce high-quality fruit. Low yields, high sugar content. It’s a delicate dance. And we’re still learning to tango!

The codling moth is the pest of the season. And marssonina leaf blotch is a constant battle from wild apple trees all over the mountainside. It’s also the time of year where we try and mitigate round-headed apple borer damage and catch-up with weeding (a seemingly unobtainable goal). All the while, there’s an eerie smoke in the air from the northern wildfires and an almost transient haze to the atmosphere.

Just a few random photos from recent days. Oh, and our tasting room is open today and Sunday from 1-6pm!

08/01/2025

It’s shaping up to be a stellar weekend here at our orchard-based cidery!

And it’s the perfect time for a few glasses of our Harrison/Porter’s Perfection blend.

While the 2025 growing season has certainly presented its challenges (Marssonina Blotch, Black Rot & Codling Moth to name a few), we are grateful that for a crop of our two favorite apples that make up this blend!

Sat & Sun 1-6pm for bottles-to-go, glass pours as well as local meat and cheese.

06/29/2025

05/31/2025

Rain got you down? Cozy up in our tasting room today: 1-6pm. Today and tomorrow (Sunday).

Dry cider & Pommeau by the glass. Local meat and cheese too.