CiderDays 2021

For this year's CiderDays (27th Annual), we will be celebrating all things cider, apples and orchards with the 2021 CiderDays Cider Trail, featuring local orchards and cideries that you can drive to in the safety of your own car. Some venues on the trail will have special offerings.

Join us on this CiderDays weekend at over 23 venues offering workshops, tours, tastings and demos!  Below is a list of workshops as well as more details on all the CiderDays venues this year, with some offerings on Nov. 5th. 

Workshops, Tours & Demos

Saturday, Nov. 6

10 am, Clarkdale Fruit Farms: Cider pressing

11 am, Apex Orchards: Pollination for the Home Orchardist with Tim Smith

11 am, Clarkdale Fruit Farms: orchard tour

Noon – 4 pm, Historic Deerfield: Seek No Further: Heritage Apple workshop

1 pm, Pine Hill Orchards: All-star Pruning Workshop with David Shearer and William Shearer

1 pm, New Salem Orchards: Outdoor Presentation - A History of Cider in Early America - Pommes, Politics and Prohibition with William Grote

2:30 pm, West County Cider: APPLE DIVERSITY - Preserving and Increasing Our Botanical and Cultural Heritage with Ben Watson

4 pm, New Salem Orchards: Making Bread Overnight with Cider Lees - William Grote

Sunday Nov. 7

10:30 am, Clarkdale Fruit Farms: Cooking with Apples demo with Erika Cooper, of Butter & Birch

11 am, West County Cider: An Exploration of Wild Apple Foraging with Matt Kaminsky

Noon, Clarkdale Fruit Farms: Cooking With Apples demo with Sandy D'Amato, of Goodstock Farm

Noon – 4 pm, Historic Deerfield: Seek No Further: Heritage Apple workshop

1 pm - 2:15 pm, New Salem Orchards: Beginning and Advanced Cider Making with April Woodard

1:30 pm, Clarkdale Fruit Farms: Cooking with Apples Demo with Amy Traverso, of Yankee Magazine

2 pm, West County Cider: Introduction to Grafting with Adam Buursma

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm, New Salem Orchards: Bring Your own - Amateur Cider Makers Tasting/Evaluation, Fun, and troubleshooting with April Woodard

NOTE: On Friday Nov. 5, there will be a Pomological exhibit at Ashfield Community Hall from 10am - 5pm.  Also, Friday will be a cidermakers gathering at Scott Farm from 5-8 pm.