Yes, that’s our real name.

We’re the Dickens family — apple growers, cider makers, and owners of a name we refuse to waste. Every can is pressed from organic American apples on our family orchard, fermented bone dry, and signed with the family name.

It all began with Major Dickens and his wife Fonda Dickens. In 1962, Major — a Korean War veteran with a stubborn streak and a love for hard work — bought a scrappy hillside orchard in upstate New York that nobody else wanted. Fonda, a schoolteacher with a head for business and a sharp sense of humor, kept the books, ran the roadside stand, and made sure the family name was spelled right on every handwritten sign.

Major grafted the first trees himself. Fonda pressed the first batch of cider in their basement with a secondhand press and a lot of trial and error. What started as a way to make use of every apple grew into something bigger: a dry, honest cider that tasted like the orchard itself.

Three generations later, those same trees feed every batch we press. Major and Fonda's stubborn dedication to quality — and their refusal to take themselves too seriously — still lives in every can we make.

Fonda insisted the name goes on the label. Fonda was right.