The magnificent apple tree…of the rose family…offers us so much. Shade. Oxygen. Fruit for enjoying fresh, cooked, canned, juiced, or fermented (cider, cizer, vinegar, etc). Inner bark, flowers, and leaves for plant medicine (cooling, astringent, and supporting us with assimilation of the food we eat). Pectin. Quercetin. Beauty. Morel mushrooms love to appear around old … Continue reading
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Apple-atcha: A Cider Pressin’ Story
Last year, my friend and I made apple cider from the treasure-trove of forgotten apple orchards in Western North Carolina. On some lonely trails behind a small, humble retreat center there are literally dozens of heirloom apple trees, mingled in with the wild, that drop bushels of apples on the forest floor and no one … Continue reading
Lindsay Kolasa 