Press days

BRING YOUR APPLES

Three Saturdays in October. Bring what your tree dropped and take the juice home the same day.

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Eighty kilos a pressing.

The rack and cloth press takes about eighty kilos at a time, and there are eight pressings between ten and four.

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Windfalls are fine.

Bruised is fine, scabbed is fine, rotten is not. Whatever comes through the gate gets washed, scratted and pressed.

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Four kilos to the litre.

A builder's bag of fruit comes out at roughly twenty five litres, which is a full box and two jerry cans.

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Fifteen pounds a slot.

That covers the press, the pasteuriser and a pair of hands to lift with. Bring your own bottles or buy them at the gate.

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What a press day is

Your fruit, our press, one afternoon.

We run the mill and the press. You bring the apples, wash them in the trough and carry the boxes. It takes about ninety minutes a slot.

The trees
01The treesMost of what comes through the gate is from gardens and old field orchards nobody has the time to pick properly.
The fruit
02The fruitMixed is better than matched. A crate of six varieties makes better juice than a crate of one.
The wash
03The washEverything goes through the trough first. Grass and leaves are fine. Soil and slugs are not.
Bring your apples, Three Saturdays in October, Fifteen pounds a slot, Four kilos to the litre

How a slot runs.

BookPick a Saturday and a ninety minute slot. One slot is one press load, so book two if you have a lot.
WashTip your fruit into the trough and pick out anything that has gone over. This is the slow part.
PressWe mill it and build the cheese in cloths. You get to turn the screw if you want to.
BottlePasteurised at seventy for twenty minutes, then into whatever you brought. It keeps a year unopened.
Enquire

Book a slot.

Tell us which Saturday and roughly how much fruit you have. We reply with a time and where to park.