Events

Sun, Oct 4th | Cider & Squash Fest | 302 Salvas Road in Huntington, VT

11 to 6 pm, chopping, grinding & pressing apples for cider & saucing as well as squash seed saving! Potluck lunch at noon. Open mic music all afternoon💛

Whether you’ve pressed cider a hundred times or never, whether you’ve a thousand apples or none: As our beloved Friends Evan and Erika invite each autumn, together lets fill our larders and our neighbors’ bellies as we collect seeds for generations of plants and humans yet to come. Stay tuned for these seeds leaping into packets to share with us all💛

Bring: Friends, apples to press, potluck lunch offering, plates & utensils, a mug for sipping cider, vessel to bring cider home (BYOV!) and container(s) for squash flesh &/or soup to bring home. You can also bring coconut milk, onions & curry for the squash soup.

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Sat, Oct 10 | Embody (Y)our Medicine: U-Dig (We Dig!) Sweet Potato & Ashwagandha Harvest + Fire Cider Making | 10 to 8 pm at Fruition Seeds

10 am: clipping sweet potato vines (they’re delicious!)

11 am: digging sweet potatoes (bring your own digging fork)

noon: gifting sweet potatoes (bring your own box to bring them home)

1 pm: digging ashwagandha (bring your own digging fork)

2 pm: we make fire cider! (as you’re joyfully able, bring your own jar(s), raw organic apple cider vinegar, hot peppers, ginger, garlic, onions, vitamin C like rosehips & citrus) Remember, make plenty for you & your friends & neighbors, too 🧅

4 pm: we make herbal salt (bring salt & any fresh herbs you’d love to share; we have lots of oregano, sage, thyme & parsley) (Thanks for the inspiration, Holly!)

4:30 pm: preparing food for the potluck 🥬

5:30 pm: potluck! (bring a dairy-free dish to share as brings ease and joy)

Join us as we dig sweet potatoes to share with us all as well as ashwagandha roots for our collective medicine cabinets. Bring your own digging fork, container to bring sweet potatoes home in, jar for ashwagandha as well as ingredients for fire cider, as you feel so moved, especially raw organic apple cider vinegar, hot peppers, ginger, garlic, onions, extra jars to share with those in need💛

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Sun, Nov 29 | Wassail Celebration! | at Fruition Seeds

Join us sipping mulled cider & singing as we celebrate our thriving Community Orchard, as much yours as ours and here for future generations. Bring a gallon ​(or more!) of sweet cider​ (as you’re inspired & able) to add to our maple syrup evaporator: The fire will be crackling and we’ll make cider syrup to send everyone home with! Bring a mug for hot cider​, a pint jar for syrup to bring home. If you’d love to help put rodent guards on our trees and otherwise ready our orchard for winter, we love you and arrive at 10. At 12:30 our farm tour begins​ and at 1 pm we’ll celebrate Wassail ​with song (practice here!), reflection & merry-making 💛

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