After the cider making course finished I stayed one extra day for an orcharding workshop at Washington State University. Of course there would be some differences between growing trees in coastal Washington state and at home in Edmonton. But an apple tree is still an apple tree and I hoped to learn …
Craft Cider 101
Back to School – Cider Science
It has been a good 7 months since I finished the last course of my master's degree. It seems like that is about how long it takes for me to start looking for new options for schooling. This time though, I had the option of going to cider school! There is a course offered by the Cider Institute of …
Learning About Grafting at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden
Why Grafting? Grafting is a fascinating aspect of growing fruit trees. Apples, for example, do not grow true to type. This means that if you plant an apple seed from a honeycrisp apple, the tree that grows will not produce honeycrisp apples. The only way to get a tree that will grow honeycrisp …