Sunday, Jan 26th , 2025
12:00 pm
Free admission. No registration required.
Rose Hill Farm
19 Rose Hill Farm
Red Hook, NY 12571
(845) 758-4215
Wassailing is an old English practice with pagan and Norse roots that involves celebrating last year’s apple harvest and anointing the trees with cider to encourage a prosperous harvest for the following season. Wassail celebrations typically involve music, recitations, and noise-making in an orchard, all with the goal of awakening the apple trees and scaring away spirits that might blight the crop. Bread is hung on tree branches and the roots are anointed with cider.
This annual Wassail celebration at Rose Hill Farm will begin with workshops and activities leading up to the main event. The workshops will be for making crowns from foraged materials, torches to carry during the ceremony, and noisemakers to use in the orchard to scare spirits away. At 4:15 p.m., participants will gather to walk into the orchard, where an interactive ceremony will take place.
Food by Misto will be available for purchase from 1–7 p.m., and the farm and taproom will be open from 12–8 p.m.
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