Gallery: Fruit Blossom, Early Spring 2026 Edition
Early blossom has been hit hard by a cold snap around these parts, but not before I snapped a few photos.
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Fruit Harvest Highlights – Summer 2025 Edition
2025 has been an incredible year for all types of fruit. Here’s part one of my harvest highlights.
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J. Williams’ (?) 1767 Recipe for ‘Cherry Pye’
This eighteenth century pie recipe is short on detail but sounds like it should be full of fruity flavour.
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Sir Hugh Plat’s 1636 Recipe for ‘Preserving the Dry Pulp of Cherries’
This C17th method for making cherry, prune or damson leather offers a useful means of preserving your glut of orchard fruits.
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Orchard Blossom Season is Almost Here
Spring-time in the orchard and beautiful blossom buds are about to burst into life. So why is it such a tense and worrying time..?
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Tasting History on Sour Cherry Jelly by Nostradamus
My favourite YouTube channel, Tasting History, takes a look at one of the Renaissance prophet’s kitchen favourites.
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Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes
I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.
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Modified Lorette System Pruning, Summer 2017
Applying the Modified Lorette to our air-pot mini-orchard apple trees.
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Air-Pot Mini-Orchard Update: It’s Blossom Time
A healthy display of blossom should hopefully mean a few fruits to enjoy later in the year.
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Establishing Our Air-Pot Mini Orchard
In which we plant out our new fruit trees into air-pot containers.
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Our Fruit Trees are Here!
Taking delivery of our fruit trees from the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale.
