Orchardshare

OrchardShare is a community group, run by volunteers who work to conserve and maintain orchards to supply locally grown apples around Bath, UK.
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Ciderspace

Ciderspace is an exciting offshoot of Orchardshare. Apples harvested from local orchards, including those managed by Orchardshare, are juiced by hydropress for the production of apple juice for pasteurisation in bottles and cidermaking. This service is aimed at owners of small orchards with fruit surplus to requirement. Capacity is limited to 200 litres per day (approx 500 kg of fruit) at present. Please send enquiries about this venture to timjbaines@yahoo.co.uk.
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Happy customers buying our apple juice at Bear Flat Christmas market.

Volunteer Activities

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Come along and help us look after our beautiful orchards. We have had a great season of apple picking during September and October so far. There will be opportunities most Fridays and Saturdays this autumn, continuing with:
  • Apple picking on Friday 14 October 2022 at Northend, from 4pm.

  • Wellow Apple Day, Sunday 16 October, We’ll be picking apples in the morning 11 – 2pm and then from 2 – 4pm providing the apple pressing equipment for Wellow community to juice their apples at Apple Day.

Check our posts on twitter or facebook for further details.

See How To Find Us for details of where to meet.

What to Bring
Volunteer sessions are normally 2-3 hours. We'll have a break in the middle, so bring something for a snack. We usually have tea/coffee (and sometimes cake!) available.

For autumn/winter pruning, bring strong footwear, and working gloves if you have them.

For apple picking, just outdoor clothes appropriate for the time of year and perhaps a bag for apples.

We rarely cancel sessions in bad weather!

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Further information

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For general enquiries, contact info@orchardshare.org.uk

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