UPICK: this weekend, Saturday Aug 22 and Sunday Aug 23 from 10 am to 2pm - aronia berries, Akane apples, and a few blackberries. Riverview Road Cidery: our Honey Baked Quince was so popular sadly it's now done but this weekend we're introducing Strawberry Quince-Aid. This is a neighborly collaboration with Swan's Trail's strawberries and Quince juice we fermented. It's reminiscent of a refreshing strawberry lemonade! Also on tap, is Dab King, a special blend of 2 traditi

When customers visit the UPICK or cidery, many people ask, "What's an Aronia berry?" I thought I'd copy and share some basic info on them below. We are starting our Aronia berry UPICK the weekend of Aug 15 & 16 and will go for several weeks. Picking will be Sat and Sun from 10 am - 2 pm. Please note that it's a 1/4-mile walk to the patch. Email info@raisingcaneranch.com to let us know you're interested. After you've worked hard picking, come to the cidery to enjoy the

To our surprise, with the heat and lack of rain, our early apple, William's Pride, is ready for UPICK. So this weekend we'll be open on Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th from 10 am - 2 pm for picking these specific apples, our Triple Crown blackberies, and figs. Tonight at the cidery, we'll host a card-making art event to support families going through cancer. It's a ticketed event through Snohomish Art Community. It is free and will start at 6:30 pm. It's our 2nd year

We're excited to be featured at Sound to Summit (Snohomish location) Wednesday, Aug 5th @ 5pm. We'll be pouring our Semi-Sweet which we renamed "Happy Orchard", Aronia berry, Flight of the Concord (Concord grape), and Frequin Rouge. It will be a fun evening of tasting cider and hearing about our process. Hope to see you there!

This weekend we will be offering our Triple Crown thornless blackberries to a small group of customers. The blackberries are beginning to turn and are yummy sweet! We'll be taking reservations only, so please reach out to Melissa at 206-724-5303 or email info@raisingcaneranch.com. We'll only be doing UPICK blackberries on Saturday, Aug 1st from 10 am to 2 pm, then the next few weekends. Figs and Aronia berries will be happening later in the month. Stay tuned here. Thanks

Super excited about our upcoming Trucks-n-Tunes this Saturday, July 25th, from 5-8pm. We'll be hosting Erin McNamee and Zach Michaud, along with food from Brat Bros. Both of these groups were here last year, and customers loved them! Come join us at the cidery and bring something for the Snohomish Food Bank. Let's support this amazing community together!

Our version of Tolkien Trivia will be held tomorrow, Friday, July 17th from 5-7pm at Riverview Road Cidery. Come show off your deep lore. Dress in costume and earn extra points. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 teams! Outside food welcome.

We had a great showing at our 1st Trucks-n-Tunes event last weekend. Thanks to The Sam Harris Band and Poke Me for providing wonderful music and food to our special customers. We love seeing all the families and locals hanging out and enjoying themselves! Some July updates: We'll only be open to 5pm on Saturday, the 4th Friday, the 17th will be Tolkien Trivia from 5-8pm, more details coming... Trucks-n-Tunes will be on Saturday, the 25th with music by Erin MacNamee and Z

We had a great opening weekend, seeing old customers dear to our hearts and meeting new ones that we're excited to get to know. It's wonderful to see people hanging out, talking, interacting, and building community. This Saturday is our 1st Trucks-n-Tunes event from 5-8pm with the Sam Harris Band and Poke Me. All season, we will be supporting the Snohomish Food Bank, so please bring donations for the bin if you can.

Our 1st Trucks-n-Tunes will be Saturday, June 27th, from 5-8 pm. We will be featuring the Sam Harris Band and their fresh, jazzy style. Poke Me will serve up some yummy Hawaiian bites and we will be taking donations for the Snohomish Food Bank. Looking forward to kicking off our season with this fun evening. Come out and join us!

Yes, we have a whole post devoted to our ever-present, super-friendly black cat, "Kitty Coal." Kitty Coal has a long history of greeting customers and lounging around the apple UPICK and cidery. He'll walk with people down the rows of apples and plop down on your table if you're drinking a cider. He tolerates kids, to a point, though he can totally freak them out if he decides to eat his latest rabbit catch in the grass, their faces in shock, maybe leaving a foot as a remi

We just wanted to let everyone know Riverview Road Cidery (at Raising Cane Ranch) will be opening Friday, June 19th for the 2026 season. The tasting room will run weekends through most of October. We're thinking our hours will be: Friday 4-8 pm, Saturday 12-8 pm, and Sunday 12-5 pm. Stay tuned for monthly Trucks-n-Tunes and other fun events!

This season, we will be accepting donations for the Snohomish Food Bank again. Come on out for a great evening for a great cause. Riverview Road Cidery opens Friday, June 19th!!!

'Tis the season when blooms are everywhere and so are the bees! We called Snohomish Bee Co. over the weekend to come capture a swarm we found huddled in one of our Black Locust trees in the silvopasture. Walking under the Golden Chain trees, you can feel the air vibrate with buzzing bumbles. One evening last week, around dusk, a huge furry moth was bouncing from flower to flower of a Western Azalea in the yard. It's wonderful and a little daunting.....there are so many ap

We've been happy to share our Rhubarb cider with Obsidian Beer Hall in Everett. They featured it at their 2nd year anniversary event and are true fans of our cider. Cheers Craig! This punchy cider will also be presented at an upcoming Farm To Table event at Pine Creek Nursery in Monroe on May 3rd. These dinners will be held in July and October and are a sweet collaboration highlighting those of us who farm and ferment in the great PNW! RCR will be the venue for their Oc

Just last week, RCR partnered with Agroforestry Northwest and welcomed local tribal community members to harvest dandelions. This event was part of a Biocultural Restoration Initiative to reconnect people with plants that nourish both ecosystems and communities. Dandelion is food and medicine. Check out their fact sheet.

It's been so wet for us! And then to spark a little PTSD from the Dec 2025 flood, we flooded again last weekend, though not as badly. On the positive side, many trees and plants that spent 4 weeks covered in water look like they're alive! There is some death, but not as bad as it could have been. And the hay fields are vibrant green from all the flood sediment and nutrients. Another surprise is that we experimented with using Salal berries and Evergreen Huckleberries in

It's still winter, but we're longing for the warm, sunny weather that's perfect for sitting with friends and drinking cold, refreshing cider. This is the time when we book our musicians and food trucks for another round of Trucks-n-Tunes, plus several art and agroforestry events. We're even considering a Tolkien Trivia night, as we hope to connect with a fanbase of Tolkien enthusiasts who will visit a special maze Farmer Nick has planted (something about 9 rings with quests

It's been over a month since the BIG flood. Nick and I can travel the trail around our property without a canoe or waders. We walk and see grass, high up in the branches of the trees, at least 8 ft. We see a slimy, brown sludge covering everything. Dead worms and voles, melted pumpkins, debris, all scattered everywhere. We see signs of beaver tasing our apple trees. The smell is powerful! People ask us if we flooded, and we say, yes, what a crazy time that was! They a