Community Cider Press and Recipes Wokshop

This workshop is an invitation for attendees to bring organic apples from their own trees, you-pick orchards, or the store to be pressed into apple cider to drink and keep. The more different types of apples that are brought the more complex and unique the flavor of the batch will be. If you don’t have apples you still welcome to attend.

We will talk about recipes for warm and cold cider drinks, storage, and composting of cider mash. Please bring containers for cider (plastic gallons work good if you would like to freeze your cider) or large mason jars, Nalgene bottles, and 5 gallon buckets also work.

Teacher Bio: Dana McCoskey is a hobby organic gardener and brewer that has been pressing cider for 7 years. She grew up in Michigan near apple orchards and cider mills and thinks that cider is one of the best things about fall. Dana is also a wildlife biologist who has traveled throughout the US and abroad to study birds and other animals.

Lecture: Pome Fruit: Apples, Pears & Quince – Botany, History and Production

Todd Brethauer, USBG Science Education Volunteer
From their glorious spring blossoms that light up our landscapes to the tasty fruit harvested in late summer through late autumn, pome fruits play an important part of our horticultural and nutritional palettes. Spend an hour learning about the origin of the apple and where you can find a forest of its wild ancestors. Find out how modern genome sequencing techniques are clarifying the evolutionary history of these fruits and providing tools for breeders confronting insect pests and diseases that affect the trees. – See more at: https://www.usbg.gov/events/2016/05/21/lecture-pome-fruit-apples-pears-quince-botany-history-and-production#sthash.bJ3U5Hgp.dpuf

Pre-registration required.