a clever door within the barn’s giant rolling doors to make the space impervious to insects, while maintaining customers’ ability to enter the structure and view the vintage machine at work. Ellen stopped by periodically to monitor the progress and guide the Taylors through the arduous process of ensuring everything would be up to the current health code standards. Nine months later, in mid-September 2015, this labor of love resulted in a completelyrestored, fully-operational, antique cider press. Ellen smiled as she conducted her final inspection, granting the Taylors the licenses to make and serve apple cider and cider donuts. This fall, visit and experience Devon Point Farm and Cider Mill. Gaze upon fields of brilliant orange pumpkins surrounded by cascading autumn foliage, inhale the intoxicating smell of cider donuts, sip a glass of ice-cold, raw cider – fresh off the old press. Savor the last the vestiges of summer with the setting sun on your cheeks. Each run is individually-blended, depending on the season and availability of choice cider apples. No batch is the same; it is a quality in which Erick and Patty Taylor take tremendous pride. 26
CT Food & Farm / Fall 2016
