We are changing the use of one of our buildings which faces the courtyard to a coffee shop. This is the brain child of our younger son and his wife – Matthew and Sophie. Sophie will run it and between them they have lots of ideas. It will be called The Woodpecker Cafe. It can be found on Facebook and you can tweet them at woodpeckercafe1. Their use of modern technology is putting us to shame!!
This is an exciting time for us at Walsgrove. Watch this space to find out what is happening.
The plum blossom has looked lovely this year. Although it is early to judge, it appears as though we have had a reasonable set of fruit. Some nights have been cool but we have avoided the frost. Daytime conditions have been conducive to bee activity so we are optimistic! 
We have a lot of surface water but aren’t actually flooded. Many of our trees have short roots and are suffering from the wet soils and high winds. We have lost a few but hopefully not too many. We hope those of you reading this are keeping safe and dry in this atrocious weather.
The winter pruning has now been completed. The huge quantity of water that we have had has affected some of the trees, especially those with shallow roots. A few have keeled over. The chainsaw has been in action today!.
Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2014. Thank you for all your support this year. We hope next season is as bountiful!
We will be closed from 3 – 11 November inclusive. After that, we will be open each day from 12.30 – 5pm and other times by arrangement. We are happy for people to buy in quantity to help us clear the orchard – PYO or windfalls – very reasonable price for large amounts. Please ring or preferably email if you want to bulk pick. 01905 345371 margaret@walsgrove.co.uk
I found this article on the BBC website today. It shows what the English apple grower is up against. Keep eating English apples!! As those of you who came to our tasting day on Saturday know, there is a huge variety in taste and texture available in English apples.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24578762
We have over 50 varieties of apples at present!!
This week we are open Monday (21st October) – Friday (25th October) noon to 5.30pm
Saturday – open 9am – 5.30pm
PLEASE NOTE – We will be closed from Sunday 27th October – Friday 1st November. We will be open from 9am on Saturday 2nd November.
Do come along to our free apple tasting event. 11am – 4pm. There are 44 varieties of eating apple ready at present. Plenty of parking. Refreshments available.