We have plenty of Purple Pershores ready. This is a really tasty plum ideal for eating but also for cooking and jam making. Today we started picking Belles which are large, juicy, sweet plums. We also are picking blackberries and runner beans. Come along and buy PYO or ready picked fruit. Don’t miss out on our newly opened cafe. It is open 10 – 4pm and if you check it out on Facebook, you will see it has excellent reviews.
Prolifics now finished. There are just a few Opals left. Czars are plentiful. Swans are available and Purple Pershores are getting riper by the day with some ready to pick now. There are Beauty of Bath and Irish Peach apples ready.
Prolifics have nearly finished. We currently have Opals and Czars with Purple Pershores likely to be ready by the end of this week ( August 1st). The very early Beauty of Bath apple is now ready for picking.
Woodpecker Cafe opened successfully on Wednesday. Pop along if you can. It is open 10am – 4pm Tuesday to Friday and Sunday. It is open 8 am to 4pm on a Saturday.
There are 3 varieties now available – Prolifics, Laxtons and Opals.
Prices for these early plums are – PYO 60p lb; ready picked 90p lb
As from Wednesday 23rd why not combine your picking with a visit to our cafe, which is open 10am – 4pm Tuesday to Friday and Sunday and 9am – 4pm on Saturday.
Our earliest plums, the prolifics, will be ready to pick on Saturday (19th July). These small, round plums are ideal to use for jam or to freeze. They can of course also be eaten fresh!
Look out for our new signs on the verge.
Prolifics, the early plums, are nearly ready, so watch this space. In the meantime, as a family,we are raising money for Cancer Research UK in advance of our participation in Relay for Life in Harrow in September. Our next event is this coming Sunday, July 13th at Old Pound Farm, Peopleton where you will be served afternoon tea whilst being entertained by the White Ladies Aston singers and two semi professional singers in the sheep shed!! Come along if you can but if you can’t and would like to make a donation, please go to
http://relay.cancerresearchuk.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/General?team_id=6459&pg=team&fr_id=1431
Every little helps!!
The new venture at Walsgrove – Woodpecker Cafe, opens on Wednesday 23rd July at 10.30am. There will be professional coffee, home made cakes and light lunches. There is both indoor and outdoor seating, areas for children to play and free parking. Pop in and say hello!
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! 
