Greetings and hello to all my Knights of Pomona and fellow orchard lovers out there! So glad to be back on here for an update and to share some thoughts on the state of the apple tree world with you all. It has been a wild 6 months since I Read more…
Hello to all my fellow Knights of Pomona and tree devotees around the globe. HAPPY NEW YEAR, bon hiver, & good tidings. I am taking a BIG BIG breath of relief after a long growing season, which concluded with several months of fast-paced harvest work, culminating with the PomEx 6, Read more…
Welcome back all. Life in 2025 is equal parts plentiful and scant. On the heels of the summer fruit harvest, bringing the first apples in, we have had an amazingly abundant start to harvest season. Unfortunately it has been dangerously dry here in New England! If you are reading this Read more…
Hi everyone! Happy New Year! Some time has passed since my last post, and so very much has happened! PomEx 5 took place on the heels of what will be considered a historic harvest year, a real banger, a vintage year, which, for me, was marked with wonderful discovery, bountiful Read more…
intro Hello again everybody! Hope you’ve all been praising Pomona and tasting her blessings this season. She is raining down fruit on us. A veritable avalanche of stone fruit, berries, and it’s bout time to dig in to the main event ! Here goes: 5th ANNUAL WILD AND SEEDLING POMOLOGICAL Read more…
Happy New Year all ye knights and devotees of Pomona! I apologize, as I do every time, for being quiet for so long on here and on social media. It’s been a busy end-of-season, scrambling to wrap up the innumerable loose ends around our silvopasture farm, as we bided our Read more…
Greetings all! As the summer season begins to ripen and the air of Autumn is creeping into some of our cooler nights, I am once again imagining the joy we will all be feeling together this Fall, when the apples begin to fall from the trees. Before getting sidetracked into Read more…
Hi All! Apologies for the long silence. Once again I am busy perpetually and don’t spend much time on the computer where I’m not working on Vol. 3 (I’m 25% of the way through the descriptions necessary for the next edition of Pomological Series!). In the meantime I’m teaming on Read more…
I’m writing this with a huge grin on my face — still glowing after returning from Maine Apple Camp 2022. One of my favorite gatherings of all within the apple and cider world. Check out the latest Instagram post for more details. The sound of rain outside the windows sounds Read more…
Hello all my wild apple folks! Been a minute on here. I’m taking some time to write a new post to articulate a couple of things, but most notably a piece of frustration that has been a constant itch for the past couple of years! There has been a Gnarly Read more…