This year marks our sixth vintage of Deer Snacks, and it is better and more wild than ever. The name, “Deer Snacks,” is an homage to many Vermonters’ feelings about wild apples. The gnarled fruit that we find while foraging has, for decades, been chalked up as food for wildlife, ill suited for human consumption. We know better: Every now and then, we discover wild apple trees producing remarkable fruit that cries out to be turned into cider, and that’s the fruit we harvest by hand and take home to the cidery. Of course, we always leave a few snacks behind the for the deer.