Apple cider flows at Detering Orchards, Nelson’s Taqueria doubles down with a campus expansion, Poppi’s Anatolia serves its final Greek Night before a big move and more happenings in the food world.
Detering Orchards cider release party
Over the weekend of Sept. 27-28, Detering Orchards will host Apple Daze with a cider release party. Detering Orchards presses its own apples into a nonalcoholic cider and bottles by hand. New fall flavors of hard cider will be on tap in Detering’s saloon. Farm activities include the wagon ride to the pumpkin patch, corn cannons and apple blasters, which allow visitors to shoot at targets. This year the farm also has goats, chickens and cows. Also up and running will be a cow train and a gentle mechanical bull for the little ones. The farm’s Apple Daze activities, including U-pick, continue each weekend in October.
Detering Orchards was founded in 1934. Stephen Demergasso, a former accountant whose family lived near the Deterings and farmed hazelnuts at a farm called Saint Filberts, purchased the 120-acre Detering Orchard from the Detering family in 2017. Demergasso said accounting was interesting work, but he prefers the physical work of life on the farm.
The saloon offers a place for guests of all ages to take a rest from farm activities and have one of four beers or cider on tap. Adding the saloon was one of the first changes Demergasso made after he bought the property.
“I gave up my accounting job to work on the farm here,” he said. “So if I’m going to be … on the farm, I want to at least have a hangout spot.”…