1000 Stone Farm · Brookfield, Vermont · Est. 2012
Small-batch cider fermented on-site from 60+ heritage orchard varieties, aged in oak at 1,700 feet in the Green Mountains.
1000 Stone Farm is a certified organic homestead farm tucked into the rocky, rolling hills of Brookfield, Vermont — twenty miles south of Montpelier at elevations between 1,400 and 1,700 feet. The terrain is demanding. The cider is better for it.
We grow over 60 apple varieties chosen specifically for fermentation — heritage English bittersweets alongside aromatic American varieties — and ferment on-site in oak barrels with minimal intervention. No concentrates, no shortcuts, no house style imposed on the fruit.
Each expression explores a different dimension of the estate fruit — from off-dry and approachable to barrel-aged, botanical, and hybrid.
The Farmers Hand ships to 40+ states through Vinoshipper — fully compliant, age-verified at delivery, professionally packed. Vermont cider, wherever you are.
Shop & Ship Join the Cider Club"We ferment on-site with minimal sulfites, in oak barrels, listening to what each harvest has to say. The result is not a house style — it is the orchard, in a bottle."— Kyle Doda, 1000 Stone Farm
The Farmers Hand · 1000 Stone Farm · Brookfield VT
Five expressions. One certified organic orchard. Sixty-plus apple varieties, all grown for fermentation.
Our signature cider — the one that started it all. Fermented in neutral oak barrels and lightly back-sweetened with filtered fresh juice, Volume One sits at the intersection of complexity and approachability. Amber-golden, with aromas of ripe orchard fruit, vanilla, and a whisper of oak. The finish is soft, round, and endlessly drinkable.
Three classic cider apples in precise conversation. Winesap brings bright acid and spice; Kingston Black contributes dark, tannic grip; Northern Spy opens with aromatic clarity. Fully dry, structurally deep — bracing, mineral, and long. For those who want the orchard's bones, undisguised.
Two of the great English cider varieties, grown in Vermont soil. Porter's Perfection brings muscular tannin and deep, complex mid-palate; Ashmead's Kernel layers nutty richness over crisp, lemony acid. A cider with old-world bones and new-world terroir — both bracing and profound.
Our most daring expression. Estate cider rested in gin barrels, picking up botanical complexity from juniper, coriander, and citrus peel. Dry and aromatic, with a clean spirit finish that lingers. Tomcat only comes around once a year — and it doesn't last long.
A co-fermented apple cider and farmhouse beer wort — the Graf lives at the blurry, beautiful boundary between orchard and brewery. Sessionable and endlessly surprising. Malty undertones beneath tart orchard fruit, with a dry, farmhouse finish. Part tradition, part experiment, entirely its own thing.
"The orchard gave us 60 varieties to work with. The cider tells us which ones belong together."— Kyle Doda, 1000 Stone Farm
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Visit · The Farmers Hand · Brookfield VT
In the Blue Barn at 1000 Stone Farm. Pull up a stool, taste what the orchard made, and take a bottle home.
The Cider House at The Farmers Hand is in the Blue Barn, past the farm store. Bar seating plus an outdoor patio with views of the orchard.
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1000 Stone Farm · Brookfield, Vermont
A certified organic farm, a small-batch cidery, and a wood-fired kitchen — all rooted in the same Vermont hillside.
1000 Stone Farm is a certified organic homestead farm tucked into the rocky, rolling hills of Brookfield, Vermont — just north of the town's famous floating bridge on Sunset Lake, and twenty miles south of Montpelier.
What began as a commitment to growing clean, nourishing food has grown into one of Vermont's most integrated farm experiences. Today the farm produces vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, pastured meat, fruit, and small-batch cider — all within a single working landscape governed by regenerative practices designed to farm for the future.
That vision found a new home when The Farmers Hand Cider House & Kitchen opened in the farm's Blue Barn — a seasonal restaurant and tasting room where everything on your plate and in your glass traces back to this hillside in Brookfield.
Products reach neighbors and food lovers through the on-farm store, the Burlington Farmers Market, a robust CSA program, and local co-ops and restaurants across Vermont.
Hear Kyle and Betsy tell the full story of 1000 Stone Farm on the Cider Chat podcast.