Why eat an apple - 2?
2. Avoid Alzheimer’s A study on the benefits of apples shows that drinking apple juice could keep Alzheimer’s away and fight the effects...

Did you know?
Pink Lady® is a trade-marked name for an apple variety known as Cripps Pink. The apple was developed by horticulturalist John Cripps, by...
How much longer would you like to live?
A recent article in New Scientist has suggested that using apple peel extract (and some other stuff) can make mice live up to 38% longer!...

Waffles with Caramelised Apple and Icecream
This masterpiece was made by the amazing Helen and Jen with fresh apples straight from the orchard! You can tell someone has been paying...

Arrival of the Woolly Apple Aphid
Today we found some woolly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum)... The woolly apple aphid is a small insect that congregates on parts of the...

Pruning Your Trees
Prune your trees to maximise fruit production.

Tortoises – or should that be Turtles?
A few days ago, I looked out onto our lawn, to see an Eastern snake-necked turtle/tortoise travelling across it. It had to travel across...

Spiders
Many spiders make their home in the orchard, and we’re happy to have them as they add to our pest control system. The numbers and...

Galahs - the clowns of the orchard
Galahs also share our farm. Galahs are noisy and gregarious birds that congregate in large groups and live in various trees around our...

More about thinning.
If bunches of apples are left to their own devices, this is what can happen. Then, as they grow, they are crowded and obviously the tree...