This should be nice - Hopefully - Orchards of Husthwaite based at The Cider Mill at Baxby Manor, Low Street, Husthwaite, North Yorkshire, have been pressing apples into juice or cider for over 15 years with apples from the local community. Talking - Cameron Smith, director of Orchards of Husthwaite. Video by James Hardisty.
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00:00Hello I'm Cameron Smith and I'm the manager and owner of Orchards of Husswaite
00:05which is a cider and apple juice maker. We're here in Husswaite which is known as the
00:09orchard village of North Yorkshire. We've been growing fruit for close on 300
00:14years. We started doing what we do 15 years ago and we've planted about 1,200
00:20trees which are now mature and we have the fruit from those trees plus lots of
00:26apples from within 20 miles radius of here. We produce about 25,000 litres of
00:32juice a year, some goes to apples some goes to cider and we're in mid-season
00:37at the minute with a very very good crop year, lots of apples. People can bring any
00:42quantity over 50 kilos and they'll get a comparative juice. Maybe 30-40 bottles for 50 kilos but some
00:53people bring half a tonne which obviously means they get an awful lot of juice back.
00:56Five tonne last week which was a big week so it will vary from a couple of tonne on the end of
01:04or beginning of the season to five or six tonne in the middle of the season.
01:08And what's this season be like? Superb, really really good apples, lots of them
01:13and so it makes up for last year which was a poor season.