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First apple juicing done all pressed, bottled and pasteurised. Now have our own apples to start processing. If you have too many apples to eat then we can juice, bottle and pasteurise giving a 2 year shelf life all for £1.50 a bottle.

Many thanks to Cheryl Cade for her article in her Lovely and Local feature in this month’s Iceni Magazine! To see the Magazine online the link is here: https://issuu.com/icenimagazine/docs/iceni_magazine_norfolk_issue_96 – we are featured on Page 14 & 15.

We now have our own Cavell Orchards Honey Labels and these will now be on our honey jars. Thanks to Paul Robertson for the Cavell Orchards logo and Thornes Beekeeping supplies for the labels.

Ashmead’s Kernel This apple was raised in Gloucester by Dr Ashmead in about 1700. It is known as one of the finest flavoured dessert apples, described as having a green-yellow skin with a brown flush and covered with russet and indistinctly ribbed at the eye and on the body. It has a strong sweet-sharp flavourContinue reading “February’s Featured Apple”

We have now had the snow for nearly a week and thankfully having pruned the trees last month we don’t have the worry that snow on the branches will bend and break any. The bees are in a tight cluster in the hives and when the weather is cold they don’t use as much foodContinue reading “Winter in the Orchard”

Vigo have some very good pruning tools as well as apple juicing equipment here is the link to their article on winter Pruning. Read more on ‘How-to-prune-your-fruit-trees’