APPLE DAY !

SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2023

1.00pm-4.00pm

 

Come and enjoy our orchards

Help us celebrate our beautiful traditional orchards and enjoy their blossom and their biodiversity.

Apple juice, cider, perry, orchard honey and trees for sale. Hot spiced apple juice and home made cakes.  Orchard information and live music.  Visit our Gloucestershire Museum Orchard.  Limited parking in field

Apple Display – some of the 100 varieties on display

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

BBC Local Food HeroesDay’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.