Pressing Your Apples

Pressing service 2026
now open

Opening hours
Tuesday-Saturday
10am-4pm

How it works

You Harvest

What types of fruit make the best juice?
Eaters, cookers, pears all work, and have their own distinctive taste.
More important is they are ripe – taste good, dark pips and pick within a quarter twist.

Apples ripen from July to December, there is no one perfect day. So consider bringing another batch later on.

Please don’t bring any apples with rot, mould or mud. A slight bruise is ok “If you’d eat it, we’ll press it”.

What about Pears?
Yes – but they need to be mixed with apples – 60% Pear / 40% Apples.

You Deliver

Is there a minimum quantity?
No. One bucket is good – a trailer load is even better.

When can I deliver?
A soon as your fruit is ripe. We are ready in August for early varieties – September, October and November are the peak months – and late varieties hold on till December.

Bring your apples and pears in open boxes, not plastic bags – they can sweat and rot.

On arrival simply complete our customer form.

Then – we do the rest:

We Wash and Check
Every apple is checked and washed; removing any fruit that could affect the taste.

We Pulp and Press
We use modern equipment to shred your apples into a pulp (pomace) and then press it to squeeze out the delicious juice.

Each batch is kept separate from others, to ensure you get your own juice back. The pomace is not wasted, but is fed to local livestock.

There are NO ADDITIVES, the juice comes solely from the apples supplied. The sweetness & taste depends completely on the variety, ripeness and condition of the actual apples.

We Bottle and Pasteurise
250ml, 750ml bottles or 2.5 pouches are filled with your juice and pasteurised so that it can keep for over a year.

Once opened, it should be kept in a fridge. Bottles should be consumed within 3 – 5 days and pouches within 4 weeks.

We Label
We then print bespoke labels with your own house name, adding a best before date.

If you wish to have your own image or picture on the label this could be a picture of your house or tree there is an additional cost of 10p per label.

We email an invoice, you pay online and return to collect
Your email & invoice is the signal your bottles are ready for collection.

How much does this whole service cost?
The cost for the whole service – press, bottle, pasteurise & label into boxes of 12 bottles – for 2026 is £3.30 per 750 ml glass bottle, with your house name on the bottle. For coloured labels you can add 5p per label.  If you have larger deliveries of fruit do ask about having your juice back in 2.5 litre pouches or 5 litre bag-in-box. There is a discount for schools, charities and community groups to enable them to sell on and fundraise.

If possible, please pay online when you receive the invoice – please bring proof of payment.

Alternatively you can pay by card, cash or cheque when you collect.

You Drink, Share and Gift

60% of the apples we eat and drink in the UK are imported!

Yet 90% of home grown apples fall and go to waste. The best way to preserve and share your apples through the year, is to press them.

For younger children, you could dilute to taste to manage the sugar content.

Alternatively, for all ages, mix with a dash of soda water for a delicious apple spritzer!

Please register your interest here – and we will send you more information.