Appley Abundance

And still the apples keep on coming... I've been amazed at the sheer quantity of fruit just one tree can produce and when you have a few trees of different types you can have a serious supply for a useful part of the year, and you can store them too. One of the challenges is finding the time to do something with them all, there's barely time to pick up all the windfalls.
We are pressing lots here at the farm as part of the excellent Incredible Edible campaign - Facebook page here:

Stacks and stacks of apples for pressing here at Treflach

First Apple Day nice and sunny...

...second Apple Day rainy but three presses going all the same

Kerry and Janet selling some of the juice in Oswestry

Another nice idea - seeing how much you can grow in a crate

This is Silver posing in front of the old apple tree in our garden...

...still absolutely loaded with apples

This is just a day's windfalls from our tree

Fruity Times

So much fruit everywhere on the farm at the moment...

Apples galore

The weight of apples snapped one of the branches off this tree yielding half a barrow of fruit...

We've had maybe eight barrow loads of windfall apples from the orchard so far which have helped to feed the pigs, who love them

We're developing these large pig feeding beds with two apple trees each so the pigs can feed themselves at least some of the time

The beds will be mini forest gardens, here we're starting ground cover of mustard and facelia which worked really well in the pig field

Damsons everywhere too - love that velvety, dusty finish on them - sadly three-quarters of them are out of reach...

...still plenty to make wine with though - I hear that damson wine is one of the best too, sort of like a really good port