Posts from Eden

Newport, Vermont – June 11, 2020: Black Lives Matter.
We have much anti-racism work to do, on our company and on ourselves. It is on-going. It is hard, and that is as it should be.

Newport, Vermont – May 8, 2020: A view from the trenches of rural small business survivalism.
Every day I’m mentally running to catch up. The business plan revisions in my head are only as good as the 24 hour news cycle during which they were concocted.

Newport, Vermont – March 22, 2020: Acknowledging this new reality.
As the crisis has deepened, it has felt increasingly necessary to me to communicate to acknowledge, even as we celebrate the amazing ciders we are turning out, that things are not okay.

We press heirloom apples when they are ripe—only once a year, at harvest time. We don’t pull them out of cold storage or use rehydrated apple concentrate.