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The English apple is a favourite orchard fruit. Did you know there are over 2,300 varieties of dessert and cooking apples and over 100 cider apples?

You won't find many of them in the supermarket, but FoodLoversBritain.com has selected some of our top FoodLovers Approved places to buy them. As well as apples, you'll find juice, cider, where to learn orchard management or how to make your own cider.

Buy FoodLovers Approved British Apples, Juices, Cider and More...

The Apple and Pear People sell Norfolk-grown apples and pears...

Chegworth Valley sell single-variety and blended juices...

The Ethical Food Company deliver traditional-variety English apples...

Killerton makes a medium-dry cider from their five estate orchards...

Sheppy's make their single-varietal cider from their own apples...

Scrubby Oak's sweet fruit vinegars include a sparkling apple & cinammon...

Julian Temperley's Somerset Cider Brandy is fermented in oak vats...

Popina's Apple & Plum tarts are made with local apples and plums...

The Ludlow Food Centre has developed a cider-washed soft cheese...

The Hive Honey Shop, James Hamill, produces his own apple blossom honey...

Search for Cider        Search for Apple-based goodies   

Learn to make Cider...

The Magdalen Project    Ragman's Lane Farm   Pershore College

Or make your own Cider...

The Little Cider Press Company will turn your apples into cider

or do it yourself with your own cider press

If you want particular apple varieties, or you want to sell them, go to
Orchards Live Apple Trading

FoodLovers favourite traditional apple varieties...

   Kidds Orange      Pinova        Blenheim Orange    Festival         Adams Pearmain

Buy Apple Trees...

Blackmoor Estate in Hampshire sell traditional and modern variety apple trees...

Adams Apples      East of England Apples & Orchards Project


Lodge Farm Plants     The Heritage Fruit Tree Company

Rent an Apple Tree...

If you love apples why not rent an apple tree in one of Lathcoats Farm orchards?...

Sponsor an Apple Tree...

Dragon Orchard      Yorkshire Orchards

Visit an Apple Orchard...

Cotehele Estate     Orchards Live     Symondsbury Apple Project

Learn to look after your Apple Tree and manage an orchard...

Thornhayes Nursery    Symondsbury Apple Project    Pershore College

Cook with Apples...

Cook our Recipe of the Month - Sheppy's Cider Apple Cake
Main Course                                        
Rack of Pork with Cider & Apple Butter  

Side Dishes                                         Puddings
Braised Red Cabbage with Apple              Apple & Quince Souffle
Citrus Salad with Watercress & Apple       Apple & Walnut Tart
                                                            Baked Apples
Jelly & Preserves                               Cider Syllabub with Apple Crisps
Apple & Plum Relish                               Caramel Apple Pavlova
Apple Sauce                                          Apple Bread
Sloe & Crab Apple Jelly                          Wassail Cup

Eat Apples

Arbutus, London     Petersham Cafe, Richmond

Visit an Apple Event around the country...

Apple Day is 21 October. Most events are held shortly before the big day itself, but we've got events listed for next year - keep them in mind...

Read more about apples...

The Apple Source Book by Sue Clifford & Angela King

Forgotten Fruits by Christopher Stocks

The New Book of Apples by Joan Morgan & Alison Richards

DID YOU KNOW...? ABSTRACT APPLE TRIVIA

• You can remove discolouration of aluminium pots and pans by boiling apple peelings in them.
• Apples are a member of the rose family, along with pears, peaches, plums, strawberries and raspberries, amongst others.   
  
• Fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air.
• It takes 36 apples to create a gallon of cider
• John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, took apple puree in squeezable tubes on his first space flight.
  
• Adam’s apple is so-called because it is said as Adam was eating the apple in the Garden of Eden, a piece lodged in his throat, and so all his descendants thereafter have had a lump in the front of their necks.
• The Big Apple (New York) has been so-called since the 1920s when a racing columnist, John Fitzgerald, brought the term back with him from New Orleans, where the stablehands would refer to New York’s infamous and extensive racing tracks as the holy grail, the Big Apple. The term stuck and was adopted by jazz musicians in the 1930s.
  
• The original Bramley tree was planted as a pip by Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. You can arrange a visit to the garden where it still stands. The name Bramley comes from the subsequent owner - Matthew Bramley - who lent his name to the apples propagated from it.