Orchards, Trees & Orchard Produce

Berkshire information

Orchards and Community Orchards to visit

Cox’s Orange Pippin Community Orchard, Colnbrook. Read More

Please let us know of any orchards to visit or Community Orchards in Berkshire : email info [at] commonground.org.uk

Where to buy apples and orchard produce

Cross Lanes Fruit Farm, Mapledurham, RG4 7UW. Sell 45 varieties of apples, plus plums, pears and soft fruit. Farm shop or PYO. Look out for their Apple Day celebrations when they also produce apple juice, and make apple pies, muffins, and cakes, as well as apple chutneys and jelly. The Farm Shop is open Wed to Sun 10am-6pm with lots of apple varieties for sale across the season, and tastings always on the go. Call +44 (0)118 972 3167 or see their web-site.

Lambourn Valley Cider, The Malt House, Great Shefford, RG17 7ED, +44(0)1488 648441. Produce cider from apples (using mostly cooking apples but also some dessert and cider varieties) sourced from orchards and gardens around Newbury, and the orchards of the Benedictine Monastery at Douai. Perry is available in several varieties one from the fruit of a very old pear tree in Kingsclere, probably Oldfield, which has recently been used to graft new trees of the same variety. And single variety ciders are available. Sold locally at the Angel Inn, Hungerford, the Swan Inn, Lower Inkpen, and Sheepdrove Organic Farm in Lambourn. And further afield. Available mail-order from their web-site.

The New Road Cyderists in Twyford buy or beg fruit from as many of their neighbours as they can for their annual pressing in their garage. They have also produced a book 'Apples Berkshire Cider' an A-Z of fruitful things in Berkshire. Buy a copy, contact Two Rivers Press on +44(0)118 966 2345, enquiries [at] tworiverspress.com or see their web-site.

Prior’s Tipple cider made by Englefield Organic Growers of Reading is sold locally and at The Retreat pub in the city (which also holds a cider and beer festival), where it is known as Pokey, after the description on the label "quite pokey". The cider is actually made from apples from Englefield’s orchards in Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire.

Rock's Organic Cordials, Loddon Park Farm, New Bath Road, Twyford make elderflower cordial from their own organic elder orchard. It (plus others) can be bought from Sheeplands Farm Shop +44(0)118 9404399, or contact Rock’s on +44(0)1189 342344, hugh [at] rocksorganic.com or see their web-site.

Percy's Old Garden Cider can be bought from Valley Vineyards, Stanlake Park, Twyford RG10 0BN +44(0)118 9340176.

For details of Farmers' Markets in Berkshire see the Farmers' Market web-site.

For more information on local food producers in Berkshire see the Berkshire Food Group website at www.local-food.net

Where to buy fruit trees

We don’t know of any Berkshire nurseries that stock a range of varieties, but ask your local nursery and please let us know if you find a supplier in Berkshire. Also see Buckinghamshire or you can order trees by mail-order from a number of nurseries that stock a wide range including:
Keepers Nursery in Kent +44(0)1622 726465 or see their web-site.
Thornhayes in Devon +44(0)1884 266746 or see their web-site.