Apples used in sweet cider are usually seconds or culls grown for the fresh market, managed the same as other fresh apples.

A cider bowl is passed around and animal bone costumes dance a jig as a crowd wishes good health to apple trees. It’s a tradition with pagan roots in the UK known as wassailing, which is enjoying ...

uses state-of-the-art machinery to tend its 22,000 apple trees and produce more than half a million gallons of cider annually. But for one evening in January, modern farming techniques are set ...

The celebration aims to bring blessings to Virtue Cider’s apple crop this spring. “Every year we go around, we bless the apple trees by playing music to scare off the bad spirits,” Virtue ...

As mulled cider a warm alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice was handed around, a dozen hobby horses swayed eerily to folk music. Made from real horses' skulls mounted on poles and ...