Sometimes it takes someone asking you to look backward to see how far a story has traveled. The September-December 2026 issue of Uniquely Quabbin magazine includes an article I wrote about the cider history of western Massachusetts, and how my own path through cider began here before leading to Cider Chat®, eCiderNews™ and Totally Cider … Read more
Going to CiderDays 2.0 | Part 1 This year 2022 is the reboot of America’s oldest educational and festive cider event dubbed this year as CiderDays 2.0 and this episode we tip the glass to those who are helping make it happen and find out what they are doing on November 4th-6th. In this episode … Read more
The Makers at Big Hill Ciderworks Troy Lehman and Ben Kishbaugh are long time friends who originally met while working in the automotive industry. Years later they team up on a very new career path as cidermakers! Both men were not originally orchardist, but that didn’t stop them from purchasing farms about a 1/2 mile … Read more
Plan the Perfect Cider Road Trip! This is Part 1 of a two part series on the new Cider Trail for Franklin County CiderDays 2020. The following is a recommended loop to visit 5 venues on the map. You can go in either direction of this loop – look to ciderdays.org to find the map … Read more
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