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No, but the trees haven’t had chemicals used on them for decades.
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No. One of the challenges of growing food is we never know how productive the different trees will be. So we can’t predict exactly which of the 100 different trees will do well. But they will definitely be tasty and very different to anything you’d find in a supermarket.
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The great thing about apples is that many of them keep for quite some time. You don’t need to eat 5.5kg all at once! You can store the fruit and work through it gradually (even observing and enjoying how the flavour changes over time).
Some other fun things to do with apples are to make juice, cut and dry them, or cook them.
If a full share is too much for you, sharing with a neighbour or a friend would be a great idea.
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£3 per kilo is cheaper than organic apples in the supermarkets and only slightly more than non-organic ones. It takes time to pick fruit by hand in the old, tall trees. Our pickers get paid the Real Living Wage.
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We want to offer you a competitive price because the harvest share scheme works better for us than other ways of selling fruit. It’s easier for us to plan knowing how much fruit we need to pick and only dropping it off at a few collection points.
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It’s up to you to arrange somebody to collect your fruit for you. They’ll be fine for few days, but if they haven’t been collected after a week we will give the good quality fruit to a food bank.
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We’re looking for new places. Please get in touch with us if you’ve got an idea.
Could you organise 5 or more shares to be collected from your house or a local community space? Get in touch to let us know.
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Yes. £99 is a lot of money for some people, so we can send you 3 separate monthly invoices for bank transfer instead. Contact sales@fruitworks.org.uk to sign up to pay in this way.
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Yes, we sell apple trees, so you can grow your own harvest for the future! See our shop to browse trees.
We sometimes sell apple juice, vinegar and cider at events.