Community Apple Pressing
We're fortunate to live in one of the best apple growing regions in the country. Adams County is blessed with well-drained, mineral-rich loamy soil and topography that shelters and sustains a climate perfect for fruit trees. While professional orchards are home to most cider apple trees there are countless other trees in the area yet to be tapped.
We’re on a mission to find lost apple varieties and discover new ones from the backyards, overgrown farms, and roadsides all around us. But we need your help. Join us on Sunday, September 26 at the Ploughman Taproom in Gettysbury, PA with your “ugly apples” for a community apple cider pressing day. This also happens to be Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman’s 247th birthday so help celebrate by sharing your wild apples of all shapes, sizes, and oddities.
Your apples will be evaluated by our cidermakers, weighed, and pressed onsite. The juice from the collective pressing will then be fermented into a cider available as a Taproom-only release. As a contributor to this effort, you will receive a proportional amount of cider to the apples you provided.
Apple harvesting requirements:
We accept all shapes, colors, blemishes, and all.
Apples need to be a quarter in size or larger.
Apple seeds must be dark, brown, or black.
Separate apples by the tree they were harvested or variety if known.
Identify the location of the tree, or best approximation.
No minimum or maximum limit amount of apples you can bring.
Event details:
WHAT: Community “Ugly Apple” Cider Pressing Day
WHEN: 11:00am-3:00pm, Sunday, September 26, 2021
WHERE: Ploughman Taproom “Parklet”, 14 Lincoln Square, Gettysburg, PA