Orchard Update
Orchard trees rebound! Patience and persistence paid off this summer. It took a while for the orchard trees to decide that they were satisfied with their new home, but by early July most species had fully leafed out and fruit […]
Cider apples
and trees
Unique Commercial Cider
Apple Farm located in Oregon
Idyll Acres is a dedicated cider apple farm located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. We grow special, mostly ancient apples: American, English and French varieties loved for their aromatic, tannic, astringent character. We grow lots of them. We also grow and sell the trees that produce these apples. If you are a cidermaker looking for commercial quantities of Reine des Pommes, Muscadet de Dieppe, Dabinett, Vilberie, and many more — or a grower looking for large quantities of trees…then you’ve found the right place.
Dozens of cider apple varieties and
Growing
Blog Posts
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Fruit Thinning
Under instructions from wiser fruit growing minds than ours, we have decided to hand remove as much of the apple crop, which is surprisingly large, that has set on our trees. All that productive tree energy needs to go into […]
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Transplant Shock, Ugh!
The trees we transplanted into our new orchard in late March have begun to leaf out, but they appear to be struggling, and the signs of normal mid-spring vigor are absent to some degree. Normal big, green, vigorous leaves look […]
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Grafting Nursery Stock
We’re grafting several varieties (like Dabinett, Yarlington Mill and Kingston Black) that we already have in our existing orchard planting, along with numerous new varieties (for us), such as Calville Blanc d’Hiver, Marin Onfroy, Mettais, Bedan, Stoke Red, Somerset Redstreak, […]
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Planting New Nursery
You could probably say that we are gluttons for punishment. After all that work digging, hauling, storing and transplanting our cider apple trees, why in the world would we want to do it all over again — especially now that […]
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Orchard Planting
The weather in March has remained incredibly wet, even by Oregon standards – nearly another 7 inches more this month. After the ridiculously wet winter we’ve had, it’s hard to believe that the relentless, pounding rain just won’t let up. […]