Carr's Ciderhouse

05/23/2026

05/22/2026

Be like Louise and Doug.
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05/21/2026

We’re excited to tell you all about a cool thing happening over here at Preservation Orchard & Farm this spring. Together with our co-farmer and dear friend, Matt Kaminsky , we got a SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education) research grant! It’s titled
Evaluation of Novel Wild Apple Hard Cider Cultivars for the North East and with it we are testing 10 of the best wild apple cultivars from the annual pomological exhibition (that Matt organizes every year) in modern orchard conditions. Will these robust wild apple varieties prove their resilience and disease resistance in the unforgiving conditions of cultivated orchards subject to higher disease and pest levels than they have in a natural ecosystem? We sure hope so!

We’ve been grafting for weeks now and will grow these young trees out in a nursery for another year before planting them in the orchard.

05/17/2026

We have the sweetest collection of goat kids looking for new homes! Grow your herd, make your home dairy dreams come true, mow your lawn, have goat cuddles whenever you want- I can help you with that! Reach out if you’re interested or curious.

05/14/2026

Friday is coming at us like this wee babe!

We can’t wait to see you and it looks like - just maybe - the weather is going to cooperate on Friday. We’ll have the first of our ciders of the season on tap and will be doing their good things.

We didn’t get our order of crackers on time but will have plenty of nice cheese in the farmstand to go along with whatever you bring 😬.

Who’s coming this weekend?

04/23/2026

It’s baby time! This little doeling is named Happy Birthday (Hap for short because she has an adorable gray shawl over her shoulders- see it?). 5 kids so far and more on the way. Everyone is perfect and they will be out to greet you on opening day May 15, so expect cuteness with your drinks, as usual.

04/19/2026

We all feel like the Cider Garden should be open already- what with this amazing weather we’ve been having- but it won’t be long. Opening day is May 15, and we are very excited to welcome you all back for a season of delicious cider, beautiful community, and the best pizza from (who will be here every day we’re open this season- except for opening day. Isn’t THAT awesome news!). We are getting the place ready, and trying not to fret about the hard cider that spent most of the winter frozen because it got so cold so early and only just thawed! The fermentations are rocking and roiling along now but we were hoping it would be quite finished by this point. However, the cider that is finished is AMAZING, so there will be a few to choose from at the bar.
If you have been by to get stuff at the shop and noticed that the goat barn is empty, don’t worry! We just moved the goats to the back and will be walking them out to a sweet new area every weekend to spend time with you. Baby goats should start arriving this week so stay tuned for excellent instagram content.
It was quite a winter and we missed you. This spring has been full of beauty right here in our spot on earth but also full of anxiety and worry about the crazy and horrible things that the US/Israel continue to inflict on the world- It has to be said but we can talk about it more later. Let’s. Xo

03/06/2026

Hi friends. How is everyone doing? We miss seeing your faces and though it’s not here yet - the cider garden is looking pretty wintry- spring is coming and it will be so good to gather together. It’ll be important to connect with friends and neighbors more and more in these crazy and uncertain times. We feel grateful to have that way to connect built into our lives. Thank you for showing up with such a bounty of goodness and love.

Today we racked our first cider off their lees into its permanent tank- Wild Apple! It is quite delicious and it’ll be on tap in May when we open ( and in bottles before then, most likely).

Free Palestine.🇵🇸

12/18/2025

Hey, look what we have again! I can ship this tomorrow and you’ll have before Christmas. Or come by the farmstand and grab a jar. 8 ounces of sweet-tart joy.