Easter Weekend at Folktale Cider

 Easter Weekend at Folktale Cider!

We’re open Friday through Sunday for a weekend full of Easter fun! Hop on over for our Spring scavenger hunt, festive crafts, and a few hidden goodies—all included with our regular kids’ activities. ($5/child for access to the jumbo jumper and farm zipline.) No registration or reservations necessary. Simply come by when most convenient to you. Good Friday: 11am - 7pm

Saturday: 11am - 8pm

Sunday: 11am - 5pm Closed Easter Monday

As part of the celebration, we’ve been diving into the fascinating folklore behind the Easter Bunny.

One origin story traces the bunny back to Ostara (or Eostre), a mysterious Germanic goddess associated with spring and renewal. Though little written evidence exists (as is often the case with oral traditions), she is said to have had a special connection with a hare.

There are two popular versions of her tale:

1. Ostara found a bird whose wings had frozen and, to save it, transformed it into a hare—one that retained the ability to lay eggs.

2. A proud bird laid beautiful eggs that so irritated the goddess, she turned it into a hare—but later softened, allowing it to lay eggs just once a year.
   

The first written mention of the Easter Bunny dates to 1682, in Georg Franck von Franckenau’s De ovis paschalibus ("About Easter Eggs"). In this Latin text, he describes a German tradition in which children hunt for “hare’s eggs” (di hasen-eier), hidden in gardens by the Osterhase (Easter Hare), to the delight of adults watching nearby.

 Sources:Library of Congress Folklife Center

• "Ostara and the Hare"

• "Easter Bunny Origins"