Apple cider takes me back to my days as a kid, playing and growing up in my grandparents’ fruit orchard that boasted several old-growth apple varieties. My great-grandmother, who lived next door to me ...

Long before California’s infatuation with the wine grape, apples were king in Sonoma County, which was once considered among the top apple-growing regions in the world. It all began with the ...

There was a time when Sebastopol was dotted with so many apple trees, it was known as the “Gravenstein Capital of the World.” Many of those orchards have given way to vineyards in the decades since ...

In the summer of 1990, Carl Sutton was working at a winery after dropping out of Sonoma State, and lived in a shack in the middle of a 50-year-old Gravenstein apple orchard. "I remember how wonderful ...

Food for People has partnered with Humboldt Cider Company to launch a new craft cider made from an overabundance of apples that would have otherwise gone to waste. “Cider for People” is made from a ...

APPLE BLOSSOMS, not apple pie, that traditional treat of mid-summer, nor apple cider, the beloved autumn beverage, are what's on our apple-loving minds when spring begins. But sometimes the pleasures ...