Fragahoe Farms

Forgot alt-text. A one liter flanked by two half liter bottles of hard cider with a green label depicting an angry apple tree working a cider press.

05.09.2025 12:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We're legit! Last of the cider bottled last night. Label design courtesy of @phineas.bsky.social

05.09.2025 12:58 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2

Jars of home canned pickles

We're not just about cider here at Fragahoe Farms. The cucumbers are also going nuts. So... Pickles!

29.08.2025 03:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bottled another 3 gallons today and prepped the final 7 gallons for secondary fermentation.

28.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

15 1-liter bottles of hard cider

15 liters of dry cider bottled. Labels are forthcoming.

22.08.2025 01:56 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Rose colored hard cider in half liter bottles with a hydrometer.

First batch bottled today. 3 1/2 liters of cider fermented with Michigan sour cherries!

20.08.2025 01:31 — 👍 38    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 2

Four half bushels of green apples, a grinder and a cider press

A man on a roof with an apple picker

Hey, guess what, green apples

Last harvest of the year

10.08.2025 15:03 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

A glass with a rosé colored hard cider.

Secondary fermentation has begun on Batch #1, infused with Michigan sour cherries and using AC-4 Cider Yeast. It tastes amazing already, a touch on the sweet side, but hopefully 2nd round will dry it out a little.

09.08.2025 01:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Stainless steel apple press and an empty bucket

Loading Apples into a crusher attached to a power drill

2 gallon bucket full of fresh-pressed apple cider

Couldn't wait. Two bushels = 2 gallons

23.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 3

We're at the point now where the tree just shits an apple to the ground every few minutes. I can sometimes hear them drop from my office window.

21.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Green apples

Cooking down my 2nd 3# batch of apples for apple butter.

16.07.2025 02:15 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

An tree full of ripening green apples

A tree full of apples

20.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Purple bearded iris

Prairie Trillium

Imperial lily

Apple blossom

Nice spring morning here

10.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wonder cider press converted to a flower pot

Finally a good use for the no- longer -functioning cider pres.

13.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Seedlings sprouting under a grow light

It's time...

09.03.2025 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And so it begins

29.01.2025 00:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0