The Land

Our Trees

Swigart Farms grows heirloom American, English, and Spanish cider varieties. Our varietal selection is carefully tailored to produce thoughtful, well-balanced blends and robust, expressive single varietals. Our first block, planted in 2019, is comprised of Golden Russet, Winesap, Hewe’s Crab, Arkansas Black, Ashmead Kernal, Michelin, Harrison, Black Twig, and Kingston Black. We grow freestanding trees on M111, B118, and G890 semistandard rootstocks, training into both Central Leader and modified French Axe shapes.

Our Nursery

Swigart Farms produces between 400 and 1000 new grafts every Spring. March is our grafting season. We source scionwood from dedicated “mother trees”, pruned specifically to generate large quantities of first-year new-growth wood. Our nursery contains several new varieties, not yet planted into our production blocks. These include Porter’s Perfection, Solarina, Arman Sharpe, Yarlington Mill, Coloradona, and Collaos.

Our Ciders

Swigart Farms produces estate-grown, small-batch, hand-crafted table ciders. We are a fruit-first ciderhouse. We favor slow, cold, minimal-intervention fermentations in steel, targeting clean flavor profiles in which fruit characteristics are allowed to dominate. We will occasionally age highly tannic varieties in wood barrels.

The results are complex but highly drinkable ciders that pair well with a wide variety of dishes. We also import Sidra from select cellars in Asturias, Spain, to produce our signature Spanish Tavern Cider blend.

We are currently building and licensing our first commercial ciderworks, and expect our first vintage to be ready for market in Summer 2026.