Caring for #orchards this winter ❄️ From fruit tree pruning, to grafting and planting, find practical advice on how to manage your orchard in a way that sympathises with the wildlife it supports. 🍎🍒 #NationalTreeWeek Practical guides 👉 ptes.org/campaigns/trad… 📸Anna Gazey

Manchester-based Balance Brewing & Blending has announced its first ever barrel-aged ciders - a Single Variety Yarlington Mill and a SV Chisel Jersey beertoday.co.uk/2024/12/02/bal…

Only 2 and a bit weeks till the shortest day , then days get a little longer bringing us closer to fruit season

'Barnack Beauty', a delicious dessert apple, local to me, illustrated in 1921 by Arthur Rackham for Eden Phillpotts's whimsical 'A Dish of Apples'. "Not until every leaf has flown Will he desert his summer throne."

This Christmas why not gift the cook/historian/glutton in your life a nice food history book: *The Philosophy of Puddings *Knead to Know: A History of Baking *Before Mrs Beeton *A Dark History of Sugar Available from all good bookshops or straight from me (DM if interested!)

Still just time to book today and tomorrow morning for our Christmas wreath event on Sunday afternoon. Beautiful materials with no airmiles, talented florist trainer, lovely ambience in the museum...

Not sure what to gift the orchard enthusiast in your life? 🎁 Darren from Orchard Notes has compiled a reading list that's sure to delight any fruit-tree lover. Maybe you'll even find something to add to your wishlist 😉 Check it out here: lght.ly/n07eobf

Snapshots from our recent #OrchardDesign day in Lewisham 📏 Students planned their orchards based on site characteristics like sun exposure, microclimates, and human and wildlife activity. Want to learn how to design orchards? Check out our courses: lght.ly/8l3jlj2

The big day is almost upon us! Our cider shop is open today for the last time this year, so if you’re local & need to stock up with some cider goodies come see us between 12-3pm. Our online shop is still open too & the last date for guaranteed Xmas delivery is the 19th. 🎄🎁

Christmassy thing #14. Before there was plum pudding there was plum pottage. Here's a recipe from the blog that I made for a TV show a few years ago now. It was good! britishfoodhistory.com/2020/12/17/chr…

Apples have recently become a Christmas icon China. Exquisitely wrapped apples with images of Santa Claus etc. Apples are everywhere, they are sold everywhere from swanky shopping malls to the back of trucks at makeshift night markets. Pingguo, a homophone for “peace fruit.”

Here’s another Tudor Christmas video I made earlier. In this cook-along video for Natalie Grueninger I show you how to make this Tudor advent treat, which only the wealthiest could afford. Go on, eat like a Tudor noble this Christmastide! Recipe also in my book #eatingwiththetudors

Horticulturae - New Published Paper🍀 📖Title: #Spectral Estimation of #Chlorophyll for #Non-#Invasive Assessment in #Apple #Orchards ✍️Paper written by: Andrea Szabó et al. 🔗Link: mdpi.com/2311-7524/10/1… #academic #publishing #MDPI #horticulture #science #scientific

January 25 in the #ForestGardens and #Orchards of #BalsallHeath, #DruidsHeath and #Stirchley Click below to read where and when our activities are taking place. mailchi.mp/6b850f14156c/f…]

Delia says she's planted an orchard: 'I've got a thing about damsons..so I can still make #damson chutney & damson jam' Martha: 'We could see a Delia effect & people will start planting damson trees all round the country' Delia: 'Hope they do!' @FruitVegHerb The Fruit Group

Just some of the diversity of soft fruit as selected by Wouter van Teeffelen Wouter van Teeffelen in the Netherlands.

Encourage a prosperous harvest in the #damson #orchard - join Crook Morris for their Wassail Day on Saturday 11th January 1.30pm+, in the Lyth Valley near #Kendal #wassail #twelfthnight #morrisdancing #mummers #mumming #Cumbria #Crosthwaite

On Saturday 11th January we will be holding our wassail! There will be homemade soup and mulled cider to tuck in to around the fire, whilst you enjoy dancing, live music and storytelling. You can also join in making a hat - there’s a prize for the best one! 4pm, free entry🌳✨

Check out the TeePee website for the latest Cider Musing on cider and why only Americans of all the cider cultures call it “hard cider”. A fascinating read. #cider #American #history teepeecider.co.nz/blogs/cider-mu…

Sadly there is no surviving, contemporary Tudor recipe for Twelfth Night Cake but there are some C17 recipes that describe the sort of fruit & spice cake that was used for the occasion. A recipe that works really well can be found on page 185 in #eatingwiththetudors