Shacksbury are a farmhouse cidery located in the Champlain Valley, Vermont. They contacted me about creating a design for their Deer Snacks Cider. The name, “Deer Snacks,” is an homage to many Vermonters’ feelings about wild apples. The gnarled fruit that we find while foraging has, for decades, been chalked up as food for wildlife, ill suited for human consumption. Shacksbury knows better: Every now and then, they discover wild apple trees producing remarkable fruit that cries out to be turned into cider, and that’s the fruit they harvest by hand and take home to the cidery. Of course, they always leave a few snacks behind the for the deer.
