Fruit press

Learn how to make an herb press from salvaged materials in order to make homemade tinctures and other herbal medicines. Test your new herb press with our dandelion tincture recipe!

Make the most of your apple and pear harvest by pressing the delicious fruit to make your own fresh juice.

Martha Stewart shares her method for using an apple press to make fresh apple cider. See the steps from picking the fruit, to grinding the apples, pressing them, and bottling the fresh apple cider.

Grape/soft fruit press/Stainless Steel

“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This Leonard Cohen lyric really helped me through a tough patch this summer. Nothing was exactly wrong, but everything just seemed a little harder and my mood hung somewhere between melancholy and razor-edged. You know how sometimes you can feel like there’s nothing you...

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This time of year starts me thinking about apples. Until last year, we had been able to take our apples to our friends' house and he would press all our apples into wonderful cider and afterwards I would be able to enjoy the visit with his lovely wife.

How to make cider with a apple cider press. Fun fall activity for the entire family, start a new yearly tradition your family will enjoy for generations.

Using a double barrel cider press lets you extract more juice from apples with less effort. Learn setup, tips, and pressing techniques for better homemade cider.

Make Apple Butter in your crock pot using this simple recipe from Cottage Craft Works. Cottage Craft Works http://www.cottagecraftworks.com Cottage Craft Works is a General Store supplying American Heritage products for sustainable living.

Nut Milk - A New Technique! Do you make your own nut milks? If so, check out this new idea!

Bottling your own apple cider couldn't be easier!

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Summer is almost over and the rain of Gravensteins has come to an end. The shelves are stocked with quarts of apple sauce for winter. Thi...