FLX Cider Week Begins!!! Oct. 4-13

October 2, 2013

Come celebrate cider with us!!!!!  Oct. 4 Friday~ Cider Week Kick Off  at The Cellar d’Or, 4-6 pm Oct. 8 Tuesday~ Madeline’s Cider Paired Dinner, 6pm Oct. 8 Tuesday ~ Hazelnut’s Redbyrd Pairings Dinner, 6:30pm *soldout Oct. 9 Wednesday ~ Tburg Farmers’ Market Cider Salon, 4-7pm Oct. 10 Thursday~ Cider Talk with Eric at Ullyses Philomathic Library, 7-8pm Oct, 12 Saturday ~ Gifts of the Apple with Good Life Farm, 3-7pm Lots more events throughout the week… Check it all out at […]

Get Your Tickets Now for Healthy Food For All Benefit Dinner

September 10, 2013

Join us in dining for a fantastic cause, raising money to provide CSA shares for low-income families!! We’re proud to partner with Hosmer Winery, Word of Mouth Catering, Sweetland Farm, and of course, Healthy Food For All,  to present a lovely evening … WHEN: Saturday, September 28th 2013. 4pm Reception. 5pm Dinner. WHERE: Sweet Land Farm, Trumansburg NY CHEF: Word of Mouth WINERY & CIDERY: Hosmer Winery and Redbryd Orchard Cider MUSIC: Jen Cork and the Good Hope (Original bluesy folk jazz with Jen Cork […]

The Poetics of Fruit Thinning

June 19, 2013

It’s hard, but somebody’s got to do it!  Oh how easy it would be to let all those gorgeous fruitlets grow to fruition, smile smile.  They look so beautiful and full of potential.  It seems to go against nature in a certain sense to not let them fulfill their destiny, but alas…we are growing for great, intensely flavorful, and optimally healthy fruit.  Which means, with deep regret and the sincerest of apologies , not all them apples are meant to make it.  […]

Starblossom 2012 Released

June 16, 2013

We’re happy to report Release Day success!  Thanks to all who came down to taste and buy at our local and absolutely amazing  Trumansburg Farmers’ Market this past Wednesday.  What a beautiful evening; big blue skies, the sounds of the Grady Girls traditional Irish folk musicc (click on that link, trust me you won’t regret it!) coming from the bandstand, the smells of Hazelnut Kitchen’s housemade chorizo sausage and Wide Awake’s fresh baked bread and MacDonald Family’s sauerkraut fritters, wafting through the […]

Growing Habitat for Wild Bees

June 12, 2013

At Redbyrd Orchard, we love wild bees! Wild bees are fantastic pollinators for apples and other tree fruit, in part because wild bees fly in cooler temperatures when honey bees aren’t active, and because, holy cow, the current state of affairs for honey bees is pretty scary and uncertain. Wild bees emerge early in the spring and pollinate apple blossoms even when cooler weather prevails.  This pollination is critical for our apples. We leave unmowed row middles until early summer, allowing wildflowers […]

April’s Springtime = JOY!!!!

May 8, 2013

****An April orchard blog post, brought to you in May…it’s busy here at the orchard~too busy to even make it to the computer in a timely fashion!**** Oh i wish i could take a sound recording of the orchard this morning and post it here for you, but alas, photos will have to suffice.  Birds galore…mocking birds singing through their playlist, woodthrush whistling, redwing blackbirds and robins flying from row to row.  It’s a cacophony of the best kind. Ahhhh, Spring!  Sunshine […]

Grilled Cheese and Hard Cider, heck yeah!

April 6, 2013

Our mouths are watering over here at Redbyrd Orchard Cider…did you know April is Grilled Cheese Month?!!!!  Nothing goes better with a sizzling grilled cheese sandwich than a glass of delicious cider…Really truly, try it and you’ll never look back! Thanks to the beautiful food blog, Tastespotting, you can check out these great grilled cheese recipes and many, many more. Let us know which one you think pairs best with your glass of Redbyrd.  Just click on the photo to find the […]

Spring in the Finger Lakes

March 29, 2013

Here is where we were a year ago today… New trees already in the ground in our new orchard, grass turning green, the skies sunny and the air warm. Last year the daffodils were fully opened to the sun by March 17th… This year though, winter just does not want to let go. Here’s a photo of the new orchard taken just a couple of weeks ago. And we still have to wait a few more weeks before we can even think […]