2009 Event Highlights:
For complete information, download the preliminary event schedule (PDF)
• Workshops, Talks and Tastings from beginner through advanced for cider makers, home orchardists and cider afficionados at various locations throughout the weekend (Saturday and Sunday)
• Apple Pancake Breakfast, Saturday, 8 - 11 am, at Second Congregational Church, Court Square, Greenfield
• The Cider Salon — tastings of a dozen or so ciders from around the country at the White Church Community Center in Old Deerfield. No admission without a glass. (Saturday) Buy Ticket
• CiderDay Harvest Supper — Chef Paul Correnty will create a savory fall feast featuring apples, cider and other locally grown foods. The dinner will be held in the Blue & White Society Room at the PVMA Teachers' Center (10 Memorial St) in Old Deerfield.
• New Salem Orchards hosts its Apple Festival with child-friendly apple pressing, live alpacas, cider donuts, caramel apples, hot squash/cider soup, roasted hot dogs over a bonfire, apples, sweet cider, sun-cooked preserves and more! (Saturday and Sunday)
• Claude Jolicouer and Organic Orchardist Michael Phillips give a talk about Apples for the Home Orchard on Saturday at the Shelburne Buckland Community Center. Michael Phillips wassails apple trees at New Salem Orchards on Sunday (11 am).
• From Apple to Bottle on Sunday at the White Church Community Center in Old Deerfield led by Terry Maloney and Steve Wood. Buy Ticket
• Apples from the Slow Food Ark on Sunday at the White Church Community Center in Old Deerfield led by Ben Watson and Tom Burford. Buy Ticket
• Cider and Cheese Pairing on Sunday at the White Church Community Center in Old Deerfield led by Ben Watson.
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• The Meeting House Marketplace at the Shelburne Buckland Community Center in Shelburne Falls, with local artisans and producers, food vendors, and, of course, apples!
• Apple and Cider-themed Menus all weekend long at area restaurants. |
CiderDays is a community event celebrating all things apples in Franklin County, Massachusetts. 2009 marks the 15th year of this event and there will be two days of orchard tours, cider making and tastings, workshops and much more. This is for all who love apples, fresh or hard cider, apple cuisine, apple orchards or just being in New England in the fall. There is a charge for some of the activities but there is no admission for the self-guided tour of the orchards or the marketplace at the Shelburne Buckland Community Center in Shelburne Falls (Saturday — note that the venue has changed this year).
