We are now picking Purple Pershore plums along with Opals and Czars. Yellow Pershores (Yellow Eggs) are ripening quickly.
Apples are still the early sharp ones – Beauty of Bath and George Cave. Irish Peach are nearly ready.
Beauty of Bath, a very early apple, is now ready. It is best eaten within a couple of days of being picked so is rarely seen for sale with such a limited shelf life. We will be picking daily until they have all gone! It is rather a sharp apple.
Prolific and Opal plums are ready for picking. We have ready picked as well as PYO. We also have runner beans – always at their best at the start of the season and ideal for freezing.
Plums are looking good and we hope to open our farm shop on Saturday 30th July, anticipating that the Early Prolific plums will be ready then. We will certainly be picking runner beans by then. We are looking to the third week of August for the first apples.
Hope to see you during the season. Just a reminder that The Woodpecker Cafe is closed on a Sunday and Monday.
Most of the trees survived the winter but a few small ones were blown over when the soil was very saturated. The frosts were a worry but despite them there has been a reasonable set of plums and hopefully apples so we are looking forward to having fruit to pick later in the year – just depends what happens in the June drop.
The following are key dates this year –
Plum Weekend – 20/21 August
Apple Weekend – 8/9 October
We have decided not to have a stall at Pershore Plum Fair this year so if we normally see you there, hope you will call in to the orchard instead.
Do email us if you have any specific queries, otherwise we look forward to seeing you in the summer / autumn
A reminder that the cafe reopens after the Christmas break on Tuesday 5th January at 10am
Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. Thank you for your support during the year. It has been a bumper harvest and we still have over 20 varieties of apple left. If you would like to buy any, please let us know – all now at 40p lb (88p / kg). Our shop is shut until next year’s plum season starts but we are happy to open if we know to expect you.
We have a wide variety of apples left and we are happy to sell in bulk to anyone wanting to juice, make cider etc.
Our shop will be open this weekend but then will close for the winter. However, we are happy to open if we know in advance that you are visiting. Our hampers, ideal for Christmas gifts, are still available on request ( – see a previous post). Our fruit vinegar, jellies etc are available to purchase in the Woodpecker Cafe, as is our very well received apple juice. We at present have two varieties of juice – Red Devil (sweet), Jupiter/Bramley (medium dry). We will be adding a third this week which we intend to call Heritage Apple juice (the juice from classic English Apples eg Blenheim Orange).
This coming weekend is our Apple Weekend – October 10th and 11th..10 – 5pm (cafe 10 – 4pm)
There will be lots of things to try before you buy – up to 50 varieties of apples; two types of our freshly pressed apple juice- Red Devil and Jupiter / Bramley; fruit vinegars; jellies; stewed apple; dried apple rings
On Saturday from 1.30pm there will be live music.
Paul will be giving apple walks / talks at 11am and 2.30pm on Saturday and 1pm Sunday.
PYO apples and ready picked.
The Woodpecker Cafe will be serving a selection of apple based pies / cakes as well as the usual selection of salads, paninis, baguettes etc.
We look forward to seeing you!!!!
Our previous post lists our hamper selection. Here is a picture to help you choose!!
