October working party

Plenty to do in the orchard, as ever, as the working group prepared some areas of thick grass to be planted with yellow rattle. If it takes, this should help to bring the grass down to manageable proportions. Seen enjoying an apple in the sunshine was a comma butterfly.

Although the birds and wasps have had rather a feast, we were still able to harvest apples from a number of trees including Ellison's Orange and Pitmaston Pineapple - names to conjure with!

And lastly for this update, the rose hips in the shelter belt are ripe, so time to make some rose hip syrup. The shelter belt has a mix of trees and shrubs providing fruit such as these as well as crab apples and hazel nuts.