It is a fabulous fruit year in the islands and I'm trying to share as much of it as I can with y'all.

A much needed helles after a day of harvesting Gamay

'Tis the season.

The longest running cider dinner in the country continues! Seats still available for this epic cider dinner. September 17th 2025 6pm Reservations here. tables.toasttab.com/watershed-pu...

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

Made the papers 🍎🍎🍎🍏🍏🍏

Gonna sound obvious but in retrospect the right's half-century-long campaign to convince the public that the government doesn't actually do a ton of useful stuff was among the most successful PR campaigns ever

Look, I'm paranoid, so I truly think that everyone who cops to a preexisting condition to get that Covid vaccine is going to get burned on insurance somehow. We should all still get the vaccine, but list the reason as "close proximity to someone who is immunocompromised."

The whole Maxwell interview feels staged, especially with how aggressively it’s being pushed. Something doesn’t add up, if Clinton and Trump are supposedly innocent and no list exists, then why not release the full unredacted files?

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

Kemker Kultuur: Rediscovering Tradition in Farmhouse Cider Making @barmas.bsky.social introduces Brauerei Kemker, a German farmhouse brewery that is making cider as an integeral part of their philosophy.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

When in Rome.

‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.

Recent book acquisition, had to get it once I saw it came from the now defunct Home Orchard Society

Straggler Brandywine blossom in Spokane

Was able to catch a few Redfield blossom stragglers at Dragon's Head

My favorite time of year.

Just putting this here so we can use it when it happens.

Cask Fest? Sign me up

#OnThisDay April 14, 1996, Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers, when “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired on Fox. @thatbilloakley.com #TheSimpsons #SteamedHams

Seattle doesn’t forget Oakland.

Not a bad combination.

Oh, look it’s our very own Neville Chamberlain. @aoc.bsky.social, primary this stooge.

Collaborators with the fascists.

The Fash & The Führerious.

penned this letter to my governor, Gavin Newsom, who seems fine with screwing over trans people out of his desperation to be liked by awful people www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

Oops 😬

Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

If only Elon Musk had been accepted into art school.

Will probably be the first Rock pear planted in the US, outside of Corvallis

#science isn't built in a day, and many sensitive samples need constant maintenance. Specific temperature, humidity, etc. This insanity will cost us not just an enormous amount of money, but incalculable decades of lost research... 🧪

Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan theonion.com/fritola...

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Also the Norwegian apple Torstein is Reinette de Hollande or Elmelund

One of the cool things about compiling genetic pedigree is that you might find something new. SNP data has Feltham Beauty with an unkn. parent with a pedigree of Hapsburg x Margaret. The FruitID project has it as Cox's x Gladstone. It's SSR data also seems to suggest Gladstone is HapsburgxMargaret

Hi all, starting up on this platform where I'll be starting a habit of posting updates from my work and life here. Tune in and follow along if you want to see content about trees and orchards, our silvopasture pasture farm, my writing, cider, news+events related to all of the above and more! Cheers

Enjoy reading our review article about Malus sieversii, the primary progenitor of domesticated apples, from Central Asia! academic.oup.com/hr/article/1...

Much needed.

I’m a cancer survivor and I lost my younger sister to cancer in 2023. I’m livid about a lot of things right now, but this hit me pretty hard. Trump and his corrupt fascist regime may be billionaires but they are morally bankrupt.

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

Coloration looks more like staining to me.

First Rock Pear outside the Corvallis repository, maybe. Perhaps.