Wild Child Cellars is a new cidery startup based in western Massachusetts. This cidery in progress is located in Turners Falls a town flanked by the Connecticut River to the west and a canal that had powered massive paper mills. In between the river and canal is an area called the “Patch”. Multi family homes originally built for workers of days gone by are to the south end of the Patch and to the north stand large New England sized brick mill buildings. April Woodard & Curt Sherrer One in particular has been vacant for years and is now being renovated into Wild Child Cellars by April Wooda ..read more

CiderCon2018 presentation – Cider Market LLC Presenter Dale R. Brown, Ph.D. Managing Partner at Cyder Market LLC Actual title of presentation: US Commercial Cider Makers by the Numbers – A “Community” Perspective ***Best listen – use headphones – Help Cider Chat improve audio recording and videos by donating to Cider Chat today.  Dan Brown, Ph.D. of Cyder Market LLC presented this program during the lunch hour lecture at the United States Association of Cider Makers (USACM) annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Click below to listen and follow the presentation Cyder Market LLC has be ..read more

Peirre-Auguste Renoir was born on the 25th of February 1841 and passed away on the 3rd of December 1919. He was a French Impressionist painter. Via Wikipedia: Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement begun by a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.They constructed their pictures from freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such as Eugène Delacroix and J. M ..read more

Paul Cézanne is one of the great Post-Impressionist (a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905) painters of the 19th century.  Cézanne painted landscapes, portraits, and complex still lifes. From his window he looked out onto the French landscape of Provence. His still with apples and pears are renown. Cézanne once proclaimed, “With an apple I want to astonish Paris,” using Provençal apples and Beurré Diel pears grown in the vicinity of the family’s estate near Aix, he dispensed with traditional one-point perspective and examined the fruit, plates ..read more

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Meet the Medlar Specialist Jane Steward, is the world’s premier Medlar Specialist. She is both a Grower and Producer of medlar preserves at Eastgate Larder, based in the UK, and the Author of the first ever book featuring Medlars called, “Medlars: Growing & Cooking  Jane Steward picking Medlars at Eastgate Larder In this Medlar Chat What is a Medlar (pome, what do they look like) and why should we care about Medlars? What do they taste like?  Where do Medlars grow and where did they come from?  Growing Medlars Medlar cultivars When to pick the fruit? A bit about how Jane ..read more

Dive into cider making essentials. Learn the importance of pristine equipment and elevate your cider’s quality with 4 tips for beginner cider makers who are starting their journey. Tip #1: Understanding the Importance of Sanitation Sanitation is critical to cider making, because apple juice creates an environment where not just our chosen yeast can thrive, but also where harmful microbes can multiply. And these microbes? They can spoil your entire batch of cider. “Spoiled” cider produces off-flavors when undesirable bacteria and wild yeast get a foothold. These undesirable flavors can range fr ..read more

Cider Making at home is a Perfect DIY Cider Making is fun! If you are a cider fan who would like to try to make cider at home without breaking the bank, this episode is the perfect DIY project to start your journey. New to Cider Making? Start Here! In this episode: Simple steps to DIY cider at home Basics of how fermentation works Where to get your juice and what kind of apple juice should you use? Equipment needed to make a gallon of cider The process for both a “controlled” ferment and a wild ferment. What you will need – to turn a gallon of apple juice into cider Apple Juice By buying yo ..read more

 The Architectural and Horticultural Endeavors of the Downing Brothers In the realm of landscape design and horticulture, few names are as revered as those of Andrew Jackson Downing and his brother, Charles Downing. Through their combined efforts, they have left a lasting imprint on the field, shaping not only the aesthetics but also the principles that govern landscape design and horticulture. Andrew Jackson Downing, born in 1815, was an iconic figure in 19th-century America, regarded as one of the founding fathers of landscape architecture. His visionary work combined aesthetics, funct ..read more

Delve deep into the realm of cider co-ferments Enjoy this special talk with a tasting of select co-ferments from New York Apple Camp 2023. Hear the discussion on techniques, flavors, and challenges. This talk was hosted by: Dan Pucci, author of “American Cider: A Modern Guide to a Historic Beverage” (2021) Matt Sanford, head cider and wine maker at Rose Hill Farm, New York Matt Sanford and Dan Pucci Co-ferments in this tasting All co-ferments where made in New York. Blackduck Cidery Aronius: A unique co-ferment consisting of 92% apples and 8% Aronia berries, which lend a tannic profile to ..read more