Southwest Colorado was once a national hub for unique apple varieties. Today, a group of hard cider artisans are restoring the local orchard economy. An apple tree in southwest Colorado. Photo ...

BEAVER ISLAND, MI — The apple trees scattered around Beaver Island are large, plentiful and old. What kind of apples do they grow? Who knows. It doesn’t really matter to the folks at Bee Well Mead and ...

ASBURY, N.J. — Ironbound Hard Cider may seem an odd name for the business Charles Rosen has built here on 108 acres in central New Jersey. The farm, where a new taproom offers pastoral views of the ...

October is National Cider Month, a month-long celebration of the drink our forefathers quaffed every day. Way before wine grapes were planted at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate, apples were ...

LEFT: Head cider maker Andrew Byers poses for a portrait at Finnriver Farm and Cidery in Chimacum, Washington on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. CENTER: An apple with likely sunburn at Finnriver Farm and Cidery ...

Peter LoVerso lives in a part of central Oregon where he can ride his bike on public land and pick a heritage apple to eat on his journey. LoVerso, who lives near Bend, is also part of a corps of ...

Angry Orchard, Strongbow, Woodchuck — these are some of the biggest national cider brands. (By the way, they're all owned by major beer companies.) But those big brands weren't what people came to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From metro Detroit to Kalamazoo, the Flint area and beyond, there are dozens of local cider mills to patronize this season. Many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crude, wooden contraption delivers the sweetest nectar this time of year. The device now tucked away in a workshop at our family ...

FENNVILLE, Mich. — Virtue Cider is hosting its annual Wassail Fest on Saturday, Feb. 22. The celebration aims to bring blessings to Virtue Cider’s apple crop this spring. “Every year we go around, we ...

Apple lovers rejoice, it’s back. After an absence during the COVID pandemic, the original Franklin County CiderDays are back, featuring an assorted group of cidermakers, orchardists, cider industry ...

RICHMOND — The dolgo crab apple tree wakes up early — several days before our other apple trees stir from their long winter’s nap. And it blooms full, white from a distance, touched with pink up close ...