APPLE DAY – CANCELLED DUE TO WATERLOGGING – SORRY!
SUNDAY 20th OCTOBER 2024
1.00pm-4.00pm
Come and celebrate National Apple Day
Explore and picnic in our orchards ~ Bring a carrier bag of your own apples for juicing at a small charge at the farm (between 1-3 pm) ~ Juice, cider, perry, orchard honey, trees & rare varieties of apple for sale ~ Apple Display ~ Orchard information ~ Guided walk through the orchards ~ Live music ~ Home baked apple cakes & mulled apple juice in cosy yurt ~
Meet Days Cottage Community Woodland project Limited parking in field
Apple display also at Stroud Farmers’ Market on Saturday 12th October 2024 9-2 pm
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.