Culls from Jim Koan’s organic apples are used in the making of organic, fermented hard cider sold under the J.K. Scrumpy’s label. Scrumpy’s, now sold on the East Coast, is being marketed in California, Oregon, and Washington this spring. In the late 1990s, Jim Koan seized upon what he saw as a business opportunity and diversified into organic apples. At the time, no one in Michigan was producing organic apples on a large scale, so he began converting a 20-acre block as his first transition orchard. He found success, and within five years, all of the apples at Almar Orchards, […]