Coulter Kisler

Coulter Kisler

WEEKEND: Chimacum cidery celebrates all things apple Sunday

CHIMACUM — Twenty-four years ago, the British organization Common Ground invented World Apple Day, a celebration of local apple flavors and heritage around the globe.

The occasion is marked mostly in the United Kingdom these days, but this Sunday from noon until 6 p.m., Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery will celebrate with abundant flavor and frolic.

Apple-inspired foods, drinks, music and at least two kinds of dancing are planned.

Admission is free to the farm at 142 Barn Swallow Road — just off Center Road — while visitors are encouraged to bring apples, if they have them, for Finnriver’s community cider project. See accompanying story, at right

Multipurpose fruit

“Enjoy the apple in all of its forms: baked, bottled, juiced, covered with caramel,” farmer Crystie Kisler said, adding that Finnriver itself grows 17 apple varieties.

For World Apple Day, she and the Finnriver crew are inviting more food purveyors over to provide apple hand pies and pizza.

Schedule

Here’s the schedule of Sunday’s World Apple Day activities:

■ 12:30 p.m. — The Sound & Fury Morris Dancers will perform.

■ 1 p.m. — Live music will be presented by the Twins and the Easily Persuaded.

■ 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. — Tours of Finnriver’s apple orchard will be conducted.

■ 1:30 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. — Andrea Love’s short animated film, “Finnriver Cider: Farmcrafted With Love,” will be screened.

■ 2 p.m. — The Morris Country Dancers will perform.

■ 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. — The Village Idiots band will play old-time music.

■ 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. — Square dancing with the Apple Day Band planned.

■ Noon to 6 p.m. — Apple art and games, apple identification with Lori Brakken and the North Olympic Fruit Club, caramel apples from Elevated Candy Co., wood-fired pizza from the Dented Buoy, apple hand pies from CRUST, hot cider, tea and coffee.

■ Noon to 5 p.m. — The Finnriver tasting room will be open for hard-cider tasting.

For more information, visit www.finnriver.com or phone the barn at 360-732-4337.

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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.

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