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[thecidertimes-blog]

Illawarra cider lovers can now drink local with the recent launch of Darkes Cider's Howler.

Darkes Cider is the latest venture from Darkes Forest's Glenbernie Orchard, a farm that has been in the Fahey family for four generations and is now run by Joanne Fahey and her husband, Glenn.

"My husband's grandparents came here in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War," Joanne said.

"They came here because they wanted to find a safe place for their kids to grow up and they wanted to be away from the city."

Glenn's grandfather began by growing potatoes and then moved on to other vegetables.

"In 1952, they planted their first apple trees. That was because my husband's father, who was then a young man, figured that instead of all this bending and getting a bad back like his father, perhaps trees would be easier and not so bad on your back because you're reaching up, not bending down.

"Little did he know that it's still a lot of hard work, a lot of lifting."

But they stuck with the apple trees, which now cover half of the 64-hectare farm - the other half has stonefruit trees.

The Faheys supply fruit to supermarket chains, which recently tightened up selection processes.

That left the Faheys with more "seconds" - perfectly good apples - and they wanted to find another use for them besides apple juice.

And their cider-loving 20-year-old daughter came up with one.

Find out more on Darkes Cider here!

Cheers!