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Award winning Apple juice £2/ 75cl glass bottle please phone or email emma@woodstonmanor.co.uk

Apple Juice  

The market for traditional variety apples in recent years has proved to be limited so in October 2005 we decided to start pressing our own apple juice, sales have increased and now we have had 5 different varieties available, but currently only have 3.

Cox, Russet and blended Cox and Russet.  The 75cl green glass bottles are 100% single variety apple juice retails. They retails for £2.00 per bottle and can be found at 'The Barn Shop' in Tenbury Wells and also available from the farm.

BATH 'n WEST 2010 - 1st time showing of our apple juice, against over 50 bottles of juice from Cornwall to Cheshire

Class 8 Single Variety Juice - 3rd Prize (Russet)

Class 9 Blended Apple Juice - 1st Prize (Cox & Russet) Also reserve champion apple juice.

 

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Background Woodston Fruit

Our fruit is very much farmed on a traditional basis, our 'young' orchards are 50 years old, with many tree a lot older.  We resisted the temptation in the 1980's, when many got grants to pull out the orchards.  In the last 10 years we have in fact planted more plums and cooking apples.

Like the rest of the farm, the orchards are run extensively with a minimal amount of sprays, just enough to get a crop.

Fruit once being a dominant feature of the Teme Valley has had take a back seat to all the other enterprises going on throughout this now changing area.  With the fall of the supermarket take up of 'English' fruit and a want it now all year round culture, the British fruit industry has been hit hard.

However we may be having light at the end of the tunnel, with several renowned celebrity chefs championing the 'Buy Local' and reducing airmiles themes, coupled with the only lost superb flavours of 'old fashioned' varieties, consumers are beginning to see the light.  

Apples

We grow 7 different varieties of apples

  • Discovery

  • Worcester

  • Laxton Fortune

  • Lambourne

  • Russet

  • Cox

  • Newtons

All are very traditional varieties, but very distinctive. 

Cherries

    July 2010 - Thanks to all our loyal customers, especially Richard at the Barn Shop Tenbury Wells, Cherry are now over for this year

Plums

    25th July 2010 - some plums will be ready shortly, please phone 01584 881223 for details

 
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