As you likely know – the orchard has been one of my primary focuses since we bought the farm in 2022. Over the past 3 years, I’ve grafted apple trees to start expanding the modest orchard at the farm. In 2024 I began experimenting with grafting my own apple trees Read more…
The first round of hard cider making we did in 2025 went better than I had expected and I really enjoyed the process. So this year we decided to roughly double the amount of cider we’d make. The process I followed was largely the same as I did last year. Read more…
It’s hard to imagine that the last post I made here was in April. I guess it goes to show how fast time flies these days. I can’t believe 2025 is almost gone but I’m also looking forward to things slowing down as they always do for the next couple Read more…
I had intended on writing some more blogs about apple tree grafting this year but I’ll admit that between family, work, apple tree grafting, and maple syrup production I haven’t had as much free time to blog. I spent a good deal of time looking forward to spring this year Read more…
I won’t lie to you folks – I’ve been looking forward to spring since last summer. The farm is a busy place most of the year but tends to calm down for a month or two early in the year when it’s just too cold to do anything outside. While Read more…
One of the products we’d like to make at the farm is hard apple cider. The first apple trees I’ve been focusing on grafting have been mostly heirloom cider varieties. With any luck we’ll be harvesting apples from at least some of those trees in the next 4-5 years. That Read more…
Well I’ll admit that I’m a bit further behind on this blog than I’d like to be but as per usual the summer months flew by and we found ourselves getting ready for winter all of a sudden. That said, I’m going to try to get caught up slowly over Read more…
As I mentioned in my last post I was anxious to get the grafts up to the farm and get them in the ground. But before I could do that – I had to build a nursery to put them in so roaming deer and rabbits wouldnt just eat them Read more…
Well – if not obvious – Im a bit behind on these posts so I’ll do my best to try and be explicit about when I did some of these things as the post date will not align with when I actually did these things. In our last post I Read more…
Well – my last post was more than a year ago where I talked about grafting apple trees. So it seems to make sense to pick things up with that same topic. I had spent some time at the end of last year looking at options for ordering rootstock and Read more…