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Apple harvest and cider making 2025
September – when the Apples are ripe
The main crop of apples were ripe very early this year and unlike last year in great abundance in and around Chorleywood. We picked and pressed a mix of dessert, cider, cooking and crab apples in order to try and make the perfect brew and a mixture of eaters and cookers for our special own…
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Cider Club and Friends of the Orchard summer party
Saturday 19th July 2025
This year’s party was indeed exceptional and we were so lucky with the weather! The equipment set up for the evening’s short entertainment set kept on getting delayed due to rain showers so we relied on Colin’s weather radar to tell us when it would stay dry. At that point the A team got all…
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Chorleywood Village Day
Saturday 12th July 2025, 12pm start
Chorleywood Common came alive with music and cider on one of the hottest days of the year making Chorleywood Village Day 2025 another great success. We were there next to live music organised by Chorleywood Magazine and managed to find the coolest area possible by placing our bar under the shade of the nearby trees.
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Cider Club tour of Normandy cider makers
29th June to 3rd July 2025
Twelve members of our Cider Club visited Cambremer in an attempt to learn all about Normandy cider. Between the 30th June to the 2nd of July 2025 we cycled around the area visited 6 cider makers and had a number of tours to learn the skills they use in brewing and the apples they consider…
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AGM
Thursday 5th June 2025 at 19.00
This year our AGM was going to be held on the Orchard itself come rain or shine! However the days forecast told us it would be miserable so we moved the venue to the back room of The Rose and Crown pub. What could be more cosy! So on Thursday the 5th of June 2025…
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Spring & Early Summer Work Parties 2025
May 2025
We completed a lot of work before the end of spring 2025 so our supporters could have minimal commitments during the summer months. Under Nikki’s guidance we removed the tree cages that had been in place since the orchard was planted and completed the installation of new tree posts and labels. We also pruned the…
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Wassail
Saturday 1st Feb 2025, 6pm
This was by far the best Wassail the Community Orchard has seen since it was planted. So good, we are almost guaranteed a good crop this year! Aren’t we? A candle lit procession was led by members of Lemon Tuesday singing us into the heart of the Orchard where some warming mulled cider was served…
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Pruning training and work party
Throughout February 2025
15 of our supporters had a day of ‘on the job’ pruning training in conjunction with the Three Rivers tree team in late January. This was the first of many days when we pruned the Orchards apple trees before the spring. Over a hundred trees later and its a job well done. Why not become…
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Spring Festival 2024
Saturday 25th May 2024
This was such a lovely sunny day and many families gathered in the Orchard for the most successful Spring Festival we have ever held. Refreshments were available throughout the afternoon and live music was performed by local musicians from St Clement Danes school. We had woodland adventure trails and face painting to entertain the children…
