It’s apple season! There are plenty of apples on a good apple tree and you can’t eat all of them.

Rather then let the wasps eat them all you can juice them.  It’s great when you can enjoy juice from apples from your own garden!

If you’re really committed and have the demi-johns and other kit you can make cider; those who’ve tried recommend you stick with making juice as cider is notoriously hard to get right.

If you have more than one tree then a mix of cooking apples and eating apples makes the best juice. Juice lasts up to three days in a fridge and then it starts fermenting.

One way to freeze it is use cartons with the tops taken off to support polythene bags. These you fill with juice, freeze and then throw the carton.

These will keep for up to six months. If you have iced lolly moulds you can make apple juice lollies – yummy!

Transition Worcester with the Worcester Orchard Workers have a “scratter” which presses and juices the apples.

Bring your surplus apples or pears from your trees and get them pressed into juice with our Orchard Worker volunteers.

Please remember to bring enough clean, sealable containers in which to take your juice away.

As a guide, for every kilo of fruit you may get around 0.75 litres of juice, depending on the variety of apple/pear and how successful the growing season has been. The pulp (called pomace) is fed to pigs afterwards.

 The events are also a good opportunity to find out about managing your trees for fruit and for wildlife. See details on our facebook page, facebook.com/transitionworcester, for the remaining dates and venues. All events run from approximately 11am-3pm.