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Open Spaces Cider is a tiny set of projects...foraged and fermented…CSA…Community...Farm Education

Open Spaces…

…Cider is a tiny cider project foraged and fermented thanks to the bounty of public and marginal lands.

…CSA is the newest addition! Organic Apple Shares weekly September through November.

…Community is a collection of professional and personal relationships focused on equity in ecological agriculture.

…Consulting for farm cideries, wineries, breweries and distilleries. Melissa

Madden, main member, lives in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State on Seneca and Cayuga Nation land. She is a farmer, advocate for food security and eager learner. Cover art by Brad DeFrees- https://bisonfeatherdesigns.com/
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for 'Malus' 'zine, a must read for the cider and apple community (https://www.maluszine.com/essays)

01/15/2026

So looking forward to slinging this (pictured) cherry cordial on Sunday and, obviously!, seeing you all.

While pondering the menu- warming & filling, bubbly & cool, boozy & sober- I had a vision of this coming Sunday afternoon's scene...

Familiar faces, a cozy space.
Lots of hugs and "glad to see yous".
Wafts of my new Ponche de La Noche Buena flx adaptation (sober/boozy).
A full on spa of femme-fabricated artistry.

Can't wait to see you!
Sunday, Jan 18
Mama Said Hand Pies Cafe (Ulysses)
4 - 7pm
hosted by Amy Puryear and Evie Bellinger

01/09/2026

Shall we dance?
January 30th, 2026 (!)
6pm->
at Stone Bend Farm

featuring the talents of , ,

A talented trio twirling tunes through the long January night to keep us moving.
$10-20 sliding scale at the door for these folks.
Sets start at 7p, going as long as you do (soft end at 11p)

Pop-Up sober-boozy bar by Open Spaces Cider at 6pm

Warming and soft, quenching and bubbly... share in Melissa's FLX fruit craft
always paired with Eve's Cidery & special guests for beer, wine and spirits

Thank you to the amazing Amy for coordinating and holding us together with so much love
and
thank you to Terry for the ever open doors at Stone Bend

Grateful for these community spaces and time to celebrate together.

Join us!

12/13/2025

Service with a smirk, a grin, a gleeful giggle, a cacophony of choices.
TONIGHT this crew is serving up farm drinks from myself, Eves, Vagabond, Liquid State in service of food access a la No Mas Lagrimas

TONIGHT!
6pm ->
at Southside Community Center
Music from WRFI DJs and DJ Jraco

These guys (most likely) will be on hand to spice it up! (photo used with permission from the kiddos and parents).

love to you all, wherever you be tonight.

12/11/2025

Este sábado, ¡fiesta con No More Tears / No Mas Lagrimas!
Gratis, Apto para familias
6 pm
en Southside Community Center
305 S Plain St., Ithaca

organizado por la reina Ana Ortiz, Voluntarias de NML, los DJs de WRFI Community Radio , DJ Jraco y Open Spaces Cider

Música y baile desde las 6 de la tarde hasta altas horas de la noche (gracias a
💃
Chistes de Ana un tiempo desconocido
👑
comida puertorriqueña hasta que se acabe
🍲
barra de efectivo para beneficiar NML hasta 10pm (gracias a Eve's Cidery, , Liquid State Brewing, Open Spaces)
🍾
¡De fiesta con nosotros!
🎉

This Saturday, come party with No Mas Lagrimas!
Free, Family Friendly
6pm
Southside Community Center
305 S Plain St., Ithaca

Organized by the queen Ana Ortiz, NML volunteers, WRFI DJs, DJ Jraco and Open Spaces Cider

Music and dancing start at 6 and go into the night (thank you WRFI)
Jokes from Ana at an unknown time
Puerto Rican food til we run out
Cash Bar to benefit NML until 10pm,
(thank you Eve's Cidery, Vagabond Wines, Liquid State Brewing, Open Spaces Cider)

Come party with us!

12/05/2025

Who's collecting local goodies for holiday giving?! What a luscious time- buried within our toxic shopping culture is the beauty of gift giving. I cherish choosing something beautiful for a loved one. I'm not an on-time, consistent year-to-year gift giver but I do love finding something that honors a special person.

If you're feeling it, join me this weekend at Hair•Color•Art
Sunday, Dec 7
upstairs from the ongoing

I'll be slinging a full Eve's Cidery tasting, bottles to go, drinks and a special cordial. The cordial is a result of other people giving me the thing I desire most- large amounts of fruit- and getting to play. (🙏 Full Plate Farm Collective, Stick and Stone Farm)
And yes, there's a super sober option, courtesy of herbs and lemon.

In a completely similar vein but with a different outcome, consider a donation to No More Tears / No Mas Lagrimas in honor of food access. I'll be helping them highlight their Winter fundraiser at a community party on 12/13 (free entry and food, cash bar, amazing community musicians.
https://nomaslagrimasithaca.org/

Sláinte

Also of note, I have 4 egg shares left for the winter: https://www.openspacescider.com/poultry

12/02/2025

Dearest folk,
Ode to winter coming on.
I LOVE this time.
I find such clarity in the rush that comes at the tail end of fall. Thursday night this week we'll tip right over into our single digit winter marathon and I will be ready, or not.

I ask myself, how did I celebrate the harvest this year? Did I appreciate this year's particular abundance and note it well?

The farm program at Enfield Elementary- slide 2- has regenerated this sort of framing around harvest for me. After years of being beat up and heartbroken by this or that failure at the end of the season, working with elementary kids has reawakened my sense of pure gratitude for the art of observing, recording and preserving the harvest in nature and in the cultivated space.
Thank you kiddos.

I do have a few things to offer in that spirit, if they serve....
Winter Nourishment from my hens in collaboration with Meadowlark Homestead 🐔 (https://www.openspacescider.com/poultry)

Winter community celebrations in the form of a party for No More Tears / No Mas Lagrimas ... 💃 (check out their fundraiser https://nomaslagrimasithaca.org/)

Winter Gift Sourcing courtesy of this Sunday's Hair•Color•Art Merch Market... 💝 (badass folk all around)

much love!

11/29/2025

Eggs! Courtesy of hardy, busy chickens doing as birds do, all winter long. Available for your nourishment alongside the Full Plate Farm Collective
Dec 4 through to March 5.

Choose-your-own Egg Adventure with a weekly one or two dozen or design your own schedule.

Locations- Stick and Stone Farm and Mimi's Attic

Laying hens are day range on pasture and fed organic feed. Open Spaces' flock is a happy random mix of Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rock, Ameraucana, Silver-Laced Wyandotts, Australorps, Buff & Blue Orpingtons, Leghorns and Araucana Bantams plus mixed breeds from on the Enfield Elementary 3rd grade breeding project.

This Egg Winter Share is a collaboration with Meadowlark Homestead in Tburg. Together we keep small flocks and grow the CSA.

Join us!!
More info https://www.openspacescider.com/poultry

11/03/2025

3 birds left!
Big gratitude to these folks! My turkey crew of 15+ years, ever evolving.
♥️
On Samhain, the cross quarter, the day of tipping right over into dark season we processed the indomitable turkey. An incredible creature, whom I love raising in this strange swamp farm.
🦃
We processed birds while surrounded by children, basking in sunlight, welcoming new friends into our long relationship. As a group we look for that balance between death and feast-time. I'm SO grateful to fellow-travel with these folks and to offer the labor of love that is on-farm processing of meat.
https://www.openspacescider.com/poultry

10/25/2025

Available now!
Tight wire-walking
orchard-maintaining
dinosaur-imitating...
Turkeys from the Open Spaces home farm swamp
🦃
Pasture-raised
organic-fed
on-farm processed with love
Whole Birds 15-19 # (possibly larger)
available frozen Nov 7-25
10 left!
https://www.openspacescider.com/poultry

10/21/2025

Tonight, on such a lovely night, I feel the Samhain Cross-Quarter approaching. Some days are cold and harbinger-esque. Today was glorious, sunny and 65F. I tried to teach an old dog a new trick, but he preferred to nuzzle into all of the standing stalks of fading asters. He found this Bumble- maybe Black and Gold (Bombus auricomus). Maybe Common Eastern (B. impatiens). The Xerces Society Bumble Bee Watch is so excellent and hopefully will verify and/or correct me.

I thought Bumble was stiff and done. That moment was an ache for the sweet moments of this year. Times of sunsets, happy realizations, good connections. I got a little more myself and a tad more clear on a few things. Time with trees and bees, kids and their perceptive minds, insects and dinosaurs. Nostalgic and full of assumptions about life and death, I brought Bumble and their aster stalk in for identification and musing.

Bumble proceeded to wake and feed. I offered the last of my own garden flowers- harvested before our hard frost a over week ago. They got mobile, ate and were too busy for my staring and point-counting. Not dead.

Once they woke up, Bumble wasn't letting me count those abdominal segments. Maybe a female. Maybe. Was it cool to bring Bumble inside to the last of the flowers and an uncertain outcome in the morning?

When we- us Enfield Elementary kiddos- do observation, we focus on the sensory tools built into our bodies, and take care on how we describe and recall those experiences. We don't remove the beings we observe from where we find them. We work to separate observation from assumption and imagination. We work to build flexible language for our experiences and repeat them to see what's next. Routine observation practice is a huge part of pattern building and is the foundation for our nature-agriculture curriculum in the farm program. And when it got dark I, a solid adult, assumed Bumble was done anyway. I brought them in to play my identification game. Black and Gold? Ok to bring inside?

Love to the invertebrates, the kids who sat quietly with me outside, the wonderful dog who does what we both want and to the sweetness of this beautiful day at the tipping edge of things.

10/09/2025

So good when folks come together for the love of land.
♥️
So lovely to be invited in Harvest Season Farm Bar-mode.
🍇🍎
Im so grateful to be seen for what Open Spaces is trying to be. Namely, supportive element to others' good work.
🤲
Thank you Becca (), Scott (.country.hearts ) and the rest of the Southern Tier Land Conservancy (.2020).
Congrats on your launch!
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430 Hines Road
Newfield, NY
14867

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https://www.openspacescider.com/

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