Then the evening’s “wassail queen” (who symbolizes fertility and abundance) tasted heated cider, soaked a piece of toast in it and poured the rest around the tree roots. Map locates Bradford ...

A cider bowl is passed around and animal bone costumes dance a jig as a crowd wishes good health to apple trees. It’s a tradition with pagan roots in the UK known as wassailing, which is enjoying ...

The celebration aims to bring blessings to Virtue Cider’s apple crop this spring. “Every year we go around, we bless the apple trees by playing music to scare off the bad spirits,” Virtue ...

Feb. 23, Champlain Orchards welcomed community members to take part in the Blessing of the Trees, also known as Wassailing. Wassailing is a traditional ceremony in which participants bless an orchard ...

You can celebrate Wassail with a group of local druids. Darrin Wilson, from Northwood Cider Company, talks about this ancient celebration.