Discover the fruits of our labour at Newbury’s Community Orchards, planted by Growing Newbury Green.

This year we have three sites with a decent crop of apples, so we are running 3 harvest events during September as the fruit ripens.

Sunday 15th Sept 2pm at City Recreation Ground orchard, off Andover Road near St Barts school, RG14 6LR

Saturday 21st Sept at 11am at Sayers Close orchard in Greenham (on land between Sayers Close and Equine Way). RG14 7UU

Note: if coming by car the best parking is in Equine Way on the Tesco’s side of the site.

and Thursday 26th Sept at 5pm – Barn Crescent, off Elizabeth Avenue. RG14 6HD. An after-school early evening event.

We have done some test tasting of the crop and the apples do need another couple of weeks to fully ripen, so don’t be tempted to pick them now. Wind falls are fine to use, but they are best for cooking.

At Barn Crescent we have 2 trees of Winston apples at the Middle Way end of the site that are not ripe until the end of October, so they need to left even longer, but are great for a Christmas crop.