2022 WINTER CIDER PACKAGE

Join us for the DEC 2022 ‘Star Man’ Package

Email us to get on the advance list for next time! openspacescider@gmail.com

 

January 20th, 2022:

Cider, Farming, Collaboration, and Reparations with NOFA-NY

 

This offering catapults us into 2022 by marking the first anniversary of our small reparations cohort. 

Here is an invitation to join us. For this package, we feature 3 ciders as well as prints of ‘Smoke Dance’ by Travis Mammedaty and reparations payments through cider to Quarter Acre for the People. 

We’ll launch the package through the 2022 NOFA-NY annual (virtual) conference and save spaces for the workshop attendees to purchase the cider package. Our workshop covering small, diverse orcharding, labor-of-love cider making and reparations partnerships lands on Tuesday, Jan 20th. 

Please join us here to meet our businesses and see the throughline to the work Christa Núñez and Quarter Acre for the People to connect BIPOC farmers with land access and supportive resources.

Jan 20th, 2022: Cider, Farming, Collaboration, and Reparations

Presenters: Christa Núñez of Quarter Acre for the People, Autumn Stoscheck and Ezra Sherman of Eve’s Cidery, Melissa Madden of Open Spaces Cider, Deva Maas and Eric Shatt of Redbyrd Orchard Cider
Eve’s Cidery, Redbyrd Orchard Cider, and Open Spaces Cider produce small batch hard cider on their farms and through foraging. Over the past 20 years of farming, we as a group recognize that true regenerative agriculture includes our organic and biodynamic practices, but must reach further into equity, justice, and reparations. With our land access partner Quarter Acre for the People, we explore reparations twice yearly through a collaborative cider package. We’ll share our farming and business philosophies and tune into opportunities for making reparations. Participants can sign up for a reparations cider package to be mailed after the conference and then join us for a virtual tasting in mid February.

February 13th, 2022:

Shipping and Tasting Cider, Appreciating Art

 

After the NOFA-NY deep dive, we’ll send out the cider packages. On February 13th @ 5pm EST (4pm Central / 3pm Mountain / 2p West Coast) we’ll host a virtual tasting (which will be recorded as well). This part can be taken as a second step after NOFA-NY or independently.

Please join us to taste ciders with the cideries, hear from our featured artist Travis Mammedaty about his piece ‘Smoke Dance’ and ask Christa and Travis more about their work.

* SOLD OUT *

Payment for this project begins with contributing the 78% value contribution directly to Quarter Acre for the People (total value for this package is $100) Please follow the 5 steps below to participate in this reparations package and receive cider.

  • 1. Contribute.

    You are still most welcome to contribute to Quarter Acre for the People! We are sold out for the Winter 2022 Pacakge.

    (Make your $78 (or more as you like) contribution HERE and designate “Quarter Acre for the People”)

  • 2. Email Receipt

    Email your receipt from Khuba International to Melissa Madden: openspacescider@gmail.com

  • 3. Charge the Balance.

    Melissa will set you up within Eve’s Cidery’s shipping system and charge the balance for the cider packaging and printing costs: $22 + shipping to your location (free pick up in Trumansburg, Ithaca and Van Etten).

  • 4. Ship/Pick Up

    We will ship and offer pick up the first week of February.

  • 5. Gather & Taste

    Virtual Tasting Gathering will be in mid February, with a link emailed a week in advance.

The Ciders:

  • Redbyrd Orchard Cider's 2020 "Wild Heart"

    750mL, Bottle Conditioned

  • Open Spaces Cider’s 2021 ‘Early and Wild Pet Nat’

    750mL, method ancestral (Pétillant Naturel)

  • Eve’s Cidery’s 2020 Darling Creek

    750mL, Traditional Method Dry Cider

FEATURED ARTIST:

TRAVIS MAMMEDATY

The Winter 2022 Cider Package includes an 8 x 10” Fine Art Giclee Print of Smoke Dance.

Travis Mammedaty is a Kiowa/Seneca-Cayuga contemporary expressionist artist hailing from Oklahoma. Travis works in acrylic and charcoal with bold colors and powerful brush strokes focusing on Kiowa oral tradition. His art is featured across the country from the Gilrease Museum in Tulsa, OK to St. Petersburg, Florida. Travis is also a Kiowa language instructor, historian and singer AND hosts "The Red Road Show", a Native American podcast giving a platform to native artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs, it also covers language revitalization, culture, and history. Follow him on Instagram @chases_the_red_blanket

‘SMOKE DANCE’

The piece ‘Smoke Dance’ was made to pay homage to my Haudenosaunee people. As a Seneca-Cayuga from Oklahoma we do not smoke dance in our area so the piece is a sense of longing. The dancer is female which gives a nod to our matrilineal leadership we hold dear in our tribe.

Eve’s Cidery, Redbyrd Orchard Cider and Open Spaces Cider stand in solidarity with Quarter Acre for the People.

Our reparations package will continue to raise funds and focus toward the essential work QAP and Khuba International are doing in Enfield and Ithaca, NY. 

Questions? Email us at openspacescider@gmail.com