32nd Annual CiderDays
CiderDays is an annual community celebration of all things apple in beautiful Franklin County, Massachusetts. 2026 marks our 32nd anniversary year! Come to the beautiful 413 to enjoy tours of the region's premier cideries and orchards with cidermaking demos and tastings, workshops, exhibitions, and educational events at a county-wide selection of venues. Find attractions from the valley towns of Greenfield, Deerfield, and Turners Falls to the beautiful Berkshire & Green Mountain hills of Buckland, Shelburne Falls, Colrain, Heath, Dummerston, and all the towns in between. Whether you are a cider aficianado (hard or sweet), make your own cider, are an orchardist, like hanging out in bucolic orchards, or just enjoy soaking up all the goodness of autumn in New England, CiderDays is your event! Most CiderDays activities are completely - FREE - but some scheduled programming requires registration and a ticket like the famous CIDER SALON at Scott Farm and the GUIDED CIDER TASTINGS at THE MILL
This year we are honoring the late, great Ben Watson, a pioneer of our region's festival and cidermaker extraordinaire, a hero among us, who built so much of the gravitas around the modern craft cider movement from his ineffable personality and seminal literary work on the subject of cider in his book Cider, Hard and Sweet. The entirety of CiderDays 2026 is dedicated to his memory. So when you raise your glass at this year's Salon, pour one out for Ben Watson. We love you, Ben!
The Cider Salon at Scott Farm - purchase tickets HERE
Saturday night Guided Cider tastings at Raven Books - purchase tickets here
The 2026 Schedule of events is here! Check out the Venues page for information on what all of our regional orchards and cidermakers will be offering this CiderDays weekend! Find hours of operation, specific offerings, and more!
Photos on this page are by Bill Bradshaw, Paul Franz/The Recorder, Eric Lewandowski, Robin Bossert, and Beth Reynolds.