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We value transparency and seek to educate our customers about what we do and how we do it. We enthusiastically embrace our responsibility to future generations to produce wholesome food and to serve the local and broader communities. When Edible Magazine asked former owner Dave Fraleigh what is the best apple, his unwavering reply was “It’s the one you just picked!” We wholeheartedly agree that fresh local produce is most delicious and when picked by you it’s both nourishing and rewarding. Our shared vision is to grow the family friendly Pick Your Own orchard, be effective stewards of the land and preserve the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley. In November 2015, Bruce and Holly Brittain and Chris Belardi purchased Rose Hill Farm. Our family is honored to assume the responsibility of stewardship, to protect the health and beauty of this farm and to leave the land better than we found it for future generations of our community. In 1998, the Fraleighs sold their development rights to the Scenic Hudson Land Trust, which through a conservation easement protects farmland and helps preserve the Hudson Valley’s world-renowned landscape. They subsequently transitioned the farm from a wholesale apple orchard to a Pick Your Own model and expanded the crops to include cherries, blueberries, peaches, raspberries, apples, pumpkins and winter squash. Two decades ago, Dave and Karen Fraleigh listened to their customers’ requests to pick their own apples and recognized their yearning to reconnect with the land. Six generations proceeded him and in 2001, the New York State Agricultural Society honored Rose Hill Farm and then owners Dave and Karen Fraleigh, as the only fruit orchard among the state’s ten Bicentennial Family Farms. Peter Fraleigh purchased this land in 1798 and established Rose Hill Farm in 1812. This wild fermented still cider is raw, unfined and unfiltered.
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A selection of our best barrels from Harvest 2018 to create a full-bodied bittersweet still cider.