Planted for fruit, not for cider
The orchard was planted three generations back to sell apples at the county market. Cider started as a way to use the fruit that bruised too badly to sell whole, and it grew from a single barrel in the barn into the taproom that sits here now.
We still sell apples by the bushel in October. The cider is downstream of that, not the other way around, and the picking calendar decides the pouring calendar every year.
Five of us run the orchard and the taproom together, and most of us also pick.
