Come, bring apples, take home cider! Have too many apples to know what to do with? Want cider from your own apples?  The Braintree Historical Society will be hosting the second annual Community Cider Pressing at the Braintree Hill Meetinghouse on Sunday, October 1, from noon - 5pm. Bring the whole family for an afternoon of pressing your own apples into cider. 

The event will feature hands-on apple pressing with a variety of traditional and new presses. There will be a presentation at 1:30pm about apples and cider by local cider makers and apple aficionados Lin Brown and Camden Walters, a tasting of lesser known heirloom and cider apple varieties, and tours of the Braintree Historical Society Museum. Add to the afternoon’s fun by bringing musical instruments and a potluck dish/snack/dessert to share. 

The best cider comes from a diverse collection of apples – cultivated and wild, so get out there and gather from your backyard tree or that loaded roadside tree down the street, just be sure to ask landowners beforehand! Start collecting soon. Please do not collect drop apples for this event, as the cider will be bottled raw (unpasteurized). We ask that you pick your apples directly from the tree, or by shaking onto tarps, not collecting from the ground. Bring your washed apples for pressing and clean containers for your cider.  If you have just a few apples, not enough for a full press, not to worry, we will add them with others for pressing.  

The event is free and open to all with donations being accepted to support ongoing preservation work at the 1845 Meetinghouse. The address of the Meetinghouse is 2756 Braintree Hill Road.