We’ve all seen the word ‘craft’ on cider and ale labels, but what does it really mean? Here’s our chief Cider Maker, Rosa Fletcher, to unpick the question and explain why our own Local Fox is really quite a unique, ‘craft-y’ character!
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London’s Historical Fruitscape: Discovering the rare and ancient Apple Varieties that go into our Cider
What do Bismarck, Lord Derby and Arthur W Barnes have in common? (Answer below the image…) …They are all heritage apple varieties that go into our hand-pressed London juice and cider! One of the many things which makes our Local Fox Cider so unique, is that it’s made entirely of apples and pears grown […]
Spring is finally here and the orchards of Leeds are starting to come to life
We’ve already had a couple of training sessions (formative and restorative pruning) and with grafting coming up (bench and top). Helping Britain Blossom are helping five orchards graft 400 trees this year. That’s involved a lot of collecting graft wood (whilst pruning) and getting some grafting pliers. We’re also going to give the nifty Scionon […]
(I Know) What Orchard Mentors Did This Summer….
That complex rooty smell in the evening and that creeping park mist in the morning give us a hint that it might be time to admit the inevitable – autumn is upon us. But what happened to summer? An unpredictable summer has presented challenges for many orcharding tasks and kept us all in Shakespearian angst: […]
Ernest Cook Trust school orchard project
Since the birth of The Orchard Project in 2009, we have sought to work with schools each year – primary, secondary and special schools. We believe that all children should have access to the magic of orchards, however small, in their grounds. In 2016, we were pleased to secure a grant from the Ernest Cook […]