Brightwell cum Sotwell Orchards
A unique orchard village in south Oxfordshire
11 September 2020
Apple Weekend and Apple Trail
10 September 2020
Make your own apple juice or cider
Why not make your own apple juice!
To book the press email brightwellorchardpresshire@gmail.com. It's great fun!
9 September 2020
Scything the wildflowers
Did you see the wildflowers this summer? There were some lovely varieties and grew waist high. At the end of the summer we scythed the orchard using traditional wood Austrian scythes. A gang of volunteers took just two hours to mow it all and kept an eye out for the occasional toad and frog and even a very small vole.
15 August 2020
The first apples are ready !
Have you started to notice the apples growing in gardens and old orchards in the village?
Yes, the season has kicked off with Beauty of Bath in Church Lane. Discovery is such a bright, almost fluorescent pink that it is the easiest to see over walls and hedges. Tydeman's Early Worcester is an acquired taste but Scrumptious is as good as it sounds.
Have a stroll through the village orchard soon. The trees are laden, so much so that some of them have branches that are touching the ground.
31 July 2020
Spring blossom and summer wildflowers
The wildflowers beneath the trees were fabulous. Have a walk or have a picnic on the benches or play among the flowers and watch the fruit grow.
2 February 2020
The trees are ready for spring
13 October 2019
New members keen to get on board
Our next task will be to prune the trees themselves but also to seriously prune back the hedge along Mackney Lane and the hawthorn hedge between the orchard and the allotments.
This needs to be done in the winter so we will email everyone with the date and times and equipment required. As usual, once all the work has been done we will celebrate at the Red Lion.