Food and drink

Picking and pressing a cider harvest

At harvest each variety ripens on its own schedule, and its fruit must be pressed while it is ready. This project holds each batch of fruit on a board from tree to tank, photos of the orchard and press days, the cellar notes and the crew's chat.

The First Perry Harvest project in Thicket over a photograph of a pear orchard in autumn below a snow-capped mountain: the health flag reading At risk and five people, then six cards: the Pear lots board with cards in On the tree, Sweating in bins and Fermenting, Pear block as nine photographs of the perry pear trees and the picking, the Message Board with the cracked tank valve on top, Press days as nine photographs of milling and pressing in a packing shed, Cellar notes with the plan for tank 3, the press day 2 notes and the gravity readings, and Chat with the morning's picking plan.

Ditch Road Perry moves each lot of pears from the tree to the bins to the tank on Boards. Photos of the pear block and the press days sit in two Docs & Files grids, and the press notes and gravity readings in a third. Restaurant orders and harvest news go on the Message Board, and both families plan each morning's picking in Chat.

In this project

The tools on the project's page, in the order shown above, and what each one holds.

  • BoardsPear lots

    14 cards in Triage, On the tree, Sweating in bins, Fermenting, Racked and Done

  • Docs & FilesPear block

    9 pictures

  • Message Board

    5 posts, the newest “Tank 3 arrived with a cracked valve”

  • Docs & FilesPress days

    9 pictures

  • Docs & FilesCellar notes

    Orchard map (2 items), Press day checklist, press-rental-agreement.pdf, Gravity readings, tanks 1 to 3, Press day 2 notes and Tank 3: if the valve is late

  • Chat

    6 lines from 5 people

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