Exciting orchard news, we have the first ex-situ Carn Brea Redstreak apples this year, there are three locations bearing this fruit, enabling the first horizontal taste comparison. Come along to Some Interesting Apples in autumn to try for yourself!
www.vagrantcider.co.uk/some-interes...

Jack speaks with James Fergusson about Cornwall's Vagrant Cider (@vagrantcider.bsky.social) and their use of wild seedling apples, which give their ciders unique qualities rooted in this beautiful region.

oftheorchard.substack.com/p/apple-root...

This is something new... If you want a load of bits and bobs about all the cider making and orchardy pomological stuff I do, this might be for you! Type the URL in the picture into your browser and it should get you there...

Three hours of phone calls, running down the lane and back to get text messages, passport numbers, driving licence numbers, NI numbers, frustration and endless dicking about just to be told I don't need to do anything, which I already knew. 🙄

#smallproducer
#literallyandfiguratively

After the last week, is this a better place to be?