Transplanting a cider apple orchard at Finnriver Farm & Cidery.
Quick post from the weekend. My brother Ryan and I spent Saturday with some friends up in Chimacum, Washington transplanting a few trees at Finnriver's brand new cider apple orchard block. Sadly Washington suffered a bittersweet cider loss last year when Northwest super cider guy Drew Zimmerman shut the doors on his popular Red Barn Cider in Mount Vernon Washington.
Our loss was also our gain as Drew has been keeping himself busy sharing his wealth of knowledge and more as a cider and orchard consultant. Finnriver Farm & Cidery has been one of the beneficiaries of Drew's wisdom, advice, the Fire Barrel recipe one of his cider legacies, and now his 8 year old cider variety apple orchard.
After our 4 hour work party we joined in some of the festivities of Port Townsend's Wine and Chocolate weekend back on Finnriver Farm.I snapped a few shots for you to enjoy.
Old Time Cider
Trees organized in the trailer headed to their new orchard block rows.
Spaced out and prepared for burying.
Andrew here is a transplant himself and joins us here in the Northwest from Eve's Cidery in New York. Welcome Andrew and family!!
We planted 138 trees in all this day. If I recall right about 1/6 of the entire project.
Setting doen gently as to not break any roots, limbs, or spurs.
Old friends of mine... Kingston Black, just about everyone's fav.
Back on the farm Finnriver was serving up ciders, chocolate and pizza. Pictured here, chocolate pizza.
Awesome pizza oven upcycled from an old buoy. Maritime cooking at it's best.
Serious fruits of labor... 
The tree planting crew for Saturday February 16th 2013.
Northwest meets Northeast.
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You make every party better Dave! Thanks to you and Ryan for trekking north into the muddy fields of Chimacum to help us plant. You are always welcome and we cannot wait for our first bottles of Whitewood Cider.