by Freya Rogers | Feb 4, 2015 |
It’s that time of the year again – Mark’s been on a pruning mission in the cider orchards. That means pruning several hundred trees every day. So we’re especially excited about our brand new Muscle Rub joining the Filberts range – what...
by Philada Rogers | Oct 22, 2014 |
Whichever way you want to look at it, in the autumn we’re surrounded by piles of cyder apples and pools of golden honey. It could be worse. Last weekend, we sold alot of honey and cyder at Eat Dorset Food Fair. A great weekend in Dorset, tasting other...
by Philada Rogers | Sep 18, 2014 |
Took a bit of West Dorset to West London with our harvest loaf baked by Leaker’s of Bridport – it had pride of place on our tradeshow stand in West London last week. Like to keep Dorset on the map. Customers were a bit surprised when we gave out apples...
by Freya Rogers | Jun 24, 2014 |
Things certainly kick off for us over the summer months. While our fat sheep doze quietly under the apple trees, the bees buzz industriously around their respective West Dorset sites and we dart about after them catching swarms, splitting or moving hives and...
by Mark Rogers | Apr 21, 2014 |
The orchard is harrowed, the spuds are in the ground and the contractor has just been to lime the soil and bring the PH back to normal. Nearly all the apiaries now have supers on and we’ve already had colonies superceding their queens. Friday even saw two possible...
by Mark Rogers | Feb 23, 2014 |
Pruning is now underway whenever the weather lets us, the fruit bud looks strong this year and although the temperature is quite high for the season they are still very hard so will be a while before they start moving up and softening. More mixed weather this week has...
