Surplus Apple Collection

 

Do you have spare apples from your tree? Bring them to Riverside!

Riverside Garden Centre has partnered with Bushel & Peck in their Surplus Apple Scheme. Simiply fill a bag (available from Riverside) with good quality apples for Bushel & Peck to make huice and cider with - and recieve a Litre of Juice/Cider for every 10kg of apples! Reducing food waste and making some delicious 100% natural apple drinks too!  

"The best apple juice comes from apples grown close to home, not from those carted across continents, and comes from apples grown in gardens and orchards that are free of harmful chemicals so the birds, the bees, the insects and the wildflowers can all thrive." See more on Bushel & Peck's Website

 

Did you know! We also stock the apple juice made from your apples! HUMBLEBEE Natural Pressed Apple Juice, made with 100% apples can be found in our cafe! 

 

To take part:

 

How it works:

- collect as many empty sacks as you need from here (Riverside)

- pick apples when they are ripe, a few days before a collection day

- bring sacks here (Riverside) just before or on a collection day 

- fill in a card and place in the sack (1 card per sack)

- we weigh and record each and every sack

- collect free juice or cider on a subsequent collection day (juice in autumn, cider the following spring)

 

Upcoming Collection Days:

Please note: We hugely appreciate it if you could pick and deliver your apples as close to a collection date as possible so the apples can be at their best. 

18th August

8th September

22nd September

6th October 

(and following every other week (tbc))

 

We exchange 1 litre of juice or cider for every 10kgs of apples we recieve, which is about 15-20% of the juice we press from your apples.

Full details available on

www.bushelpeck.co.uk or www.humblebeejuice.co.uk

 

In a bit more detail:

The scheme is operated by The Cotswold Fruit Company Ltd., in conjunction with the location where you see this (Riverside).

We weigh your fruit according to the quantity of the fruit we are able to use to make juice or cider. Therefore we both suggest and request that:

- you pick the fruit as close to possible to the Collection Day - the collection day can be found on posters at Riverside or at the top of this page!

- you only use good quality fruit; it doesn't have to be perfect, the odd bruise or scab is ok, but no rotten or even partially rotten fruit please! As a guide, ask yourself "would I eat this apple?" and if the answer is no, then don't expect us to use it either!

 

If you have chosen to recieve apple juice, it will be brought to you at Riverside on the next collection day.

If you've chosen to recieve cider, it'll be brought to Riverside the following Spring(April or May) and we'll email or text you the date beforehand.

 

The Cotswold Fruit Company Ltd., Bieby House, Abbey Terrace, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, GL54 5LL

 

 

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