APPLE DAY
SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER
1.00pm – 4.00pm
Come and celebrate apples and orchards with us at Days Cottage!
Free entry with suggested £5.00 donation to Joliba Trust for Orchards for young people in Mali.
Apple games and fun for all the family
Heritage varieties of apples for sale as as well as juice, cider, honey, and delicious home made cakes and mulled Apple Juice.
Cosy yurt to relax in. Live music with The Elastic Band and Bagelites.
Guided nature walk looking at the ecology and management of the oldest orchard planted by Great Aunt Lucy in 1912 approx 2.30 pm
Maps to lead you round the orchards.
Meet the Gloucestershire Community Juice team, learn about their work and get involved.
Due to the poor season the main farm will not be open for juicing, but we will be hand juicing small amounts of apples at Days Cottage
Limited parking in field. Please keep dogs on a lead as there will be small children.
Suggested £5.00 donation to Joliba Trust for orchards in Mali. This brilliant project helps young people set up orchards in Mali to improve the land and to save young people from having to migrate for work. They have a waiting list of young people wishing to join the project, so lets raise lots of money to support them while we enjoy our orchards here at Day’s Cottage.
£90.00 = 200 trees = 1 orchard = 1 livelihood assured
Pure apple juice, cider and perry
Our juice is made with apples from traditional, mature orchards in Gloucestershire. The fruit comes only from unsprayed orchards and dozens of varieties are used, some unique to the county, such as Taynton Codlin, Flower of the West and Underleaves.
These give flavours unobtainable from modern commercial fruit, and can be enjoyed as unusual single varieties or as carefully blended juices. No additives or preservatives are used and the juice of over 1kg of fresh fruit fills each 75cl bottle. No sprays, chemicals or artificial fertilisers are used in our orchards, thus preserving their rich and varied wildlife. Our traditional ciders and perry are fermented and matured in oak barrels. Once again, only old varieties are used, including Morgan Sweet and Foxwhelp apples and Brown Bess and Blakeney Red pears.
An Award Winning Family Business
Day’s Cottage Apple Juice is a family run business, based on the family farm, and reviving a long tradition of cider and perry making in Gloucestershire.
Day’s Cottage Apple Juice was awarded BEST DRINK PRODUCT 2016 at the Cotswold Life Food and Drinks awards. This adds to our collection of awards : Best non-alcoholic drinks Producer 2012 by Taste of Gloucestershire as well as receiving awards from the Campaign to Protect Rural England and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust for our work and exceptional commitment to traditional orchards and their wildlife.
In previous generations every farm had its orchards, and most had their stone cider presses; we have merely brought these traditional methods up to date and are making totally pure juice, ciders and perry, the only process being that of pasteurisation.