B.C. Cider Week puts spotlight on province's growing cider industry

Rachel Bolongaro was sitting at her desk one day in 2013 when she asked herself, “Do I want to be an engineer for another 20 years?”
The answer was “no,” and she took a week off work to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. She happened to visit a cidery on Vancouver Island, where she fell in love with the idea of life on a farm lined with apple trees.
“I thought, ‘I’d really like to spend a lot of time in a place like this,’ and the Lowe