Fresh English apples, fantastic food! One a day to keep the doctor away!
English apples are now in season but none are on the supermarket shelves. According to our calls to the big 3, they will not have them for 3 weeks. So please try your local farm shop and tell them to email us to join our apple map.
We have over two thousand varieties of apple in the UK but only 15 are grown commercially. Most, like the delicious Cox’s Orange Pippin, have been de-listed by supermarkets and as a result most of the trees have been destroyed by growers, also with the help of EEC grant aid!
Different varieties of apple are ripening on their trees between now and October and some are best stored for a few months to get the best flavour.
Many are now in season and should be available to us all. Most fruit and veg is most nutritious and tasty when it is fresh and ripe. Far too much of what we eat has been picked early to satisfy the needs of distribution and shelf life. As always to get the best, grow it, or buy direct.
To find your nearest fresh apple try your local farm shop and wouldn’t it be great if the local farm shop had an apple press so local people could take in their apples to make juice or cider. So start now and plant some trees this autumn and buy your fruit trees in MarketPlace.
All very exciting, to find your local apples try the BigBarn map and ask if them about their favourite varieties. Or ask your local farm shop about getting get a press so that next year you and the community can make apple juice or cider. And have a party.
Great article, yet again the supermarkets are taking away the choice and selling us what suits them.
One of my customers made a very good point the other day about the supermarkets he said he cannot stand shopping in them as you are simply a consumer, as when he shops locally you are a customer and there is a huge difference.
Hello
We have both English & local apples in stock
English Discovery apples
English Bramley apples
Local apples – Katy variety & Lady Sudeley variety from my fathers orchard at Golant near Fowey
Plus cooking apples from Terry & Kathy Lobbs orchard at Corran Farm, St Ewe – one of the Directors of Lobbs Farm Shop
Keep up the good work
Thanks
Gill
Lobbs Farm Shop Limited
Heligan
St Ewe
St Austell
Cornwall
PL26 6EN
http://www.lobbsfarmshop.com
lobbsfarmshop@btconnect.com
01726 844411
Hi Anthony
We are currently picking Discovery and Bramley apples!
Best wishes
Sara
We have about sixteen variety of Biodynamic Organic holding the symbol (Demeter) Apples, Plums, Pears Quinces etc.. please find attached list of fruit
Find us at WR7 4Pu
Thanks
Charbel
We only grow apples on a very small scale and all our sales are of apple juice. However we do take peoples surplus apples and press the juice on contract for them. Mostly this is done for individuals but we have also provided this service for groups, such as a school PTA and a church. We actually did our first small pressing for a customer in July this year, and have now received apples from 8 more customers already this season.
John Tuck
Rosemary’s Preserves / FJ & R Tuck
Highgate Farm,
Wootton Bassett,
Swindon,
Wiltshire,
SN4 8DT
Tel: 01793 850999
Hi.
Here at Willows Farm Shop we have some lovely sweet English Discovery apples and some excellent Bramleys in stock.
Sandra Shirran
Willows Farm Village
St Albans
AL2 1BB
I can not get enough British Apples for my Juice and have to buy Apples that are Bought into the Country.I have recently bought Gala Apples- From Italy! and Pink Lady from South Affrica!!. We need to plant out more UK Apple Orchards and In Scotland plant out Scotish Varieties. I have sourced a good supply of Scotch Bridget and Bloody Ploughman Apple trees that i intend to use for my Cider.