FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM We are a mom and pop orchard and cidery owned and operated by Louisa Spencer and Stephen Wood. We have been growing apples on the same New Hampshire land since 1965. We make dry or barely off-dry Farnum Hill Ciders from a wide range of cider apples grown here FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Hello visitors, if you're seeing this after Thanksgiving 2020, the content below is all old news. Winter and Spring, we're open for retail only on Growler Days, for Farnum Hill Cider sales.Week 12 of Harvest 2020: FINAL WEEK'S HOURS: CLOSING 4PM Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon CLOSED for the SEASON T FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM MUSSELS IN CIDER BROTH Mussels in a garlicky cider broth: simple to make, such fun to eat. Eco-vegetarians who avoid most fish are often ok with mussels. (Mussel-farming is benign, especially compared with the dreadful effects of much other fish-farming!) And FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM 5/29/2020: Squint hard at this picture and you'll see that little bulge at the top of the little stem which has just dropped all its flower petals. That's an apple! Squint over to the right to see a few sub-stages of pollination & petal-fall in the same pic. Now mentally multiply by millio FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM 5/21/2020: In our orchards the earlier-blooming varieties have opened their blossoms. Beautiful sights, beautiful scents, and beautiful buzzing fill the fields. Bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, even a few hummingbirds vibrate the air, along with plenty of smaller pollinators we can't hear. All FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Pruning is about decisions. What to cut so that maximum sunshine reaches the apples/so that apples can be harvested efficiently/so that branches don't break under heavy crop loads/so there's a newer branch well placed to fill in for an old one that needs to come off -- and many more. (Up top i FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM FLASHBACK: Orchard Plans for Fall 2020. OUR FARMSTAND CLOSED FOR THE SEASON NOVEMBER 23rd. THIS IS A FLASHBACK TO THE UNCERTAINTIES AT THE START: Hello, everyone! Our orchard's fall outlook on August 28, 2020 is below - we'll add more details as they happen. There's news on tractor rides (we hope to offer them after all - starting the second FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Cook garlic until soft and fragrant (30 sec-1 min), in residual heat of pan with heat turned off, Turn heat back to medium, and add roughly 4/5 of the cider or mixed liquids (500 ml or 1-2/3 cups), Scrape bottom of pot with wooden spatula, then add remaining batches of FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM 1.Clean mussels in cold fresh water. Remove beards, if necessary. . SORT them, and DISCARD any open, broken, or cracked ones. 2. Mince garlic and shallots/onions pretty fine. Chop parsley. 3. Warm just enough olive oil to cover pot bottom. . Add shallots/onions and garlic, and heat (stirring) just until they're soft and aromatic. FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Skurnik Wines distributes FHC in CT. If you’d like to see Farnum Hill in your favorite retailer or hangout, drop a line to Spain@skurnikwines.com Find Farnum Hill: NOTE: Always call ahead to make sure Farnum Hill is actually in the location you plan to visit. If FHC is sold out or rotated out, you FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM We are a mom and pop orchard and cidery owned and operated by Louisa Spencer and Stephen Wood. We have been growing apples on the same New Hampshire land since 1965. We make dry or barely off-dry Farnum Hill Ciders from a wide range of cider apples grown here FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Hello visitors, if you're seeing this after Thanksgiving 2020, the content below is all old news. Winter and Spring, we're open for retail only on Growler Days, for Farnum Hill Cider sales.Week 12 of Harvest 2020: FINAL WEEK'S HOURS: CLOSING 4PM Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon CLOSED for the SEASON T FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM MUSSELS IN CIDER BROTH Mussels in a garlicky cider broth: simple to make, such fun to eat. Eco-vegetarians who avoid most fish are often ok with mussels. (Mussel-farming is benign, especially compared with the dreadful effects of much other fish-farming!) And FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM 5/29/2020: Squint hard at this picture and you'll see that little bulge at the top of the little stem which has just dropped all its flower petals. That's an apple! Squint over to the right to see a few sub-stages of pollination & petal-fall in the same pic. Now mentally multiply by millio FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM 5/21/2020: In our orchards the earlier-blooming varieties have opened their blossoms. Beautiful sights, beautiful scents, and beautiful buzzing fill the fields. Bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, even a few hummingbirds vibrate the air, along with plenty of smaller pollinators we can't hear. All FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Pruning is about decisions. What to cut so that maximum sunshine reaches the apples/so that apples can be harvested efficiently/so that branches don't break under heavy crop loads/so there's a newer branch well placed to fill in for an old one that needs to come off -- and many more. (Up top i FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM FLASHBACK: Orchard Plans for Fall 2020. OUR FARMSTAND CLOSED FOR THE SEASON NOVEMBER 23rd. THIS IS A FLASHBACK TO THE UNCERTAINTIES AT THE START: Hello, everyone! Our orchard's fall outlook on August 28, 2020 is below - we'll add more details as they happen. There's news on tractor rides (we hope to offer them after all - starting the second FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Cook garlic until soft and fragrant (30 sec-1 min), in residual heat of pan with heat turned off, Turn heat back to medium, and add roughly 4/5 of the cider or mixed liquids (500 ml or 1-2/3 cups), Scrape bottom of pot with wooden spatula, then add remaining batches of FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM 1.Clean mussels in cold fresh water. Remove beards, if necessary. . SORT them, and DISCARD any open, broken, or cracked ones. 2. Mince garlic and shallots/onions pretty fine. Chop parsley. 3. Warm just enough olive oil to cover pot bottom. . Add shallots/onions and garlic, and heat (stirring) just until they're soft and aromatic. FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Skurnik Wines distributes FHC in CT. If you’d like to see Farnum Hill in your favorite retailer or hangout, drop a line to Spain@skurnikwines.com Find Farnum Hill: NOTE: Always call ahead to make sure Farnum Hill is actually in the location you plan to visit. If FHC is sold out or rotated out, you FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM FH ciders give excellent flavors to any braise: here's one winter vegetable recipe we came up with years ago. It's versatile, of course, keeps for later serving, reheats well. The short, cold days and long dark evenings call for hot & hefty dishes! You can vary this braise a million ways, with a FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Here's an extremely informal video about Farnum Hill Ciders, with some history. It was put together by Easterly Wines, our Maine distributor, from a conversation recorded remotely earlier this year. FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM It's been a busy harvest season! Now at last, home cidermakers can whiz up the hill to pick up the raw juice they ordered. Each year, especially for DIY cidermakers we press a juice blend from cider-apples that offer complexity, tannic structure, and refreshing flavor not generally possible with mor FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM in the cluster above are Esopus Spitzenberg, originally a New York apple, which so wowed Thomas Jefferson when it was a hot new 18thC variety - though it wouldn't grow in short-winter Virginia. Delicious for eating, keeps well, brings pure keen acids and lush florals to our ciders. Here's Ellis Bitter, one of our go-to bittersweets, which FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Clearly orcharding is no action movie - nearly three weeks ago we published "Buds Boring: Rah!" and now it's "Bud-stage at 'Mouse-ear.'" When the tiny leaves inside the bud begin to curl outward into the open air, they look like cute rodent ears. In the picture, It looks messy, like bed-head.These b FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Fitz and Steve are talking about grafting: that is, joining pieces of living apple wood onto trees that are already growing. If this is done right, a stick from, say, a Golden Delicious, can be grafted onto a McIntosh tree, where it will become a branch that produces Golden Delicious apples. This ti FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM Orchard drama is quiet but real. This time of year, it's about the buds, which contain this year's apples. Thus far they're still in winter dormancy, wrapped up tight in their smooth brown "scales." But -- it's been kind of warm up here! Which means the buds could start getting a premature message: FARNUMHILLCIDERS.COM ** We promise that we will not share the information you provide in our form with anyone. Your contact details will be used exclusively by us and for the sole purpose of providing you our latest news and
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