There have been some exciting changes over the past year at Castle Fruit Farm. Orchards Farm Shop has grown into a fully stocked, full-time farm shop celebrating fresh, local produce. The orchards themselves – now under the ownership of Clive Maile, familiar to many in the area and the driving force behind Bentleys Apple Juices …
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With this year’s Big Apple Harvestime festival just around the corner,Laura shares memories of her family visit last year. On a lovely October Saturday, we set out on the mid morning Daffodil Line service from the Ross on Wye direction towards Much Marcle, to join in with the Big Apple Harvestime celebrations. We arrived at …
The Big Apple Harvestime weekend is our own unique harvest festival.
Happening in and around Much Marcle, the weekend celebrities our local orchards, apples and cider.
I met Nell Credland, sheep breeder and knitter, with her knitting friends at the Hellens Textile Fair in July this year and was excited to buy wool locally grown to knit an Icelandic Jumper. Some of you will know these cost upwards of £350, and many of us have wanted one ever since seeing Scandi Noir drama, where fearless and beautiful women detectives, solve impossible and awful crimes, wearing Icelandic jumpers.
