Trenchmore Farm would love to invite you to their apple swap: "When life gives you apples……we swap them for cider"
3Bros will be serving Trenchmore wagyu burgers in the yard during the swap, so why not stop for a bite & pint after dropping off your apples.
If you’d like to take part in the apple swap, please read below.
We love all types of apples no matter shape, size or container - bins, buckets or bowler hats will do.
The only exception to this are Bramleys - we won't be able to take any Bramley apples this year as they are too acidic and block the filters on our apple press. We apologise if this is all you grow - they're not good for our cider, but luckily great for apple pie...
We ask that you make sure your apples are perfectly ripe - this is vital for making tasty cider. Over ripe apples will go bad in the bin and can spoil the cider with moulds. Under ripe apples have too much starch which block our filters and won't ferment, so are pretty much no good to us.
We don't spray our apples as we don't want nasties going into our cider - please only bring us unsprayed, clean and naturally delicious fruit.
Ugly fruit and small bruises are not a problem - anything you think is good enough to eat or cook with, is good enough for Silly Moo Cider.
We know that some of your trees will come into harvest before we start our swap. We don't start pressing until our orchard is ready to pick, which tends to be later in the season. This is because the later ripening varieties tend to be better for cider than the earlier apples. We would ask that you don't pick your apples much in advance of swapping them. Apples left in damp and poorly ventilated containers will start to go bad and can ruin our cider by introducing nasty moulds.
Please do not bring us muddy fruit this year. Our washing system struggles to cope with mud on fallen fruit and can taint our cider. We will have to reject any muddy, mouldy or unripe fruit this year. Thank you.