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The 2010 Scrumping Project is Launch !!! On the 9th October 2010 we well be holding a community apple picking morning at the beautiful ‘Magnox Oldbury’ Orchard, South Gloucestershire, collecting unused The Juice will flow.... On Sunday 17th October as part of the Grimsbury Farm Apple Day we will be holding the 2nd Scrumping Project apple pressing event. This year we hope to press for both apple juice as well as cider using the apples that were collected on the 9th October. We will also be encouraging visitors to bring along their own scrumped apples whether from their own back gardens or village fruit trees (with permission of course) to the event so hopefully you will be taking home some of your own apple juice, bottled and labelled by yourselves. We will also be displaying an exhibition of photography from this and last years event plus there will be an opportunity to taste the 2009 Cider. Fun for all including apple peel competition, juice demonstrations, storytelling, Poetry, History of cider displays, farm animals, apple pie, jam making (and eating) , refreshments. Please let me know if you are interested in getting involved in the project, visiting the events or just want to comment on the blog. Best Wishes Neil ‘Forgotten Fruit’ craft cider   "A Refreshing Taste from The Heart" of South Gloucestershire check out the blog for more updates http://theorchardgroup.wordpress.com/ 26/01/2010 The Scrumping project Launched it’s local new cider last weekend at the Wassail Celebration at Willsbridge Mill to great acclaimed and smiling faces. Named “Forgotten Fruit” the group handed out samples, explained the concept behind their drink and encourage people to get involved in this year’s project. The Group have lovingly created a craft cider made using traditional methods with apples sourced from small orchards and individual apple trees throughout the South Gloucestershire region. In the main apples which would otherwise go unused and to waste, therefore making use of an abundant and much loved, but until recently, sadly neglected resource. Group organizer Neil Phillips commented," It’s been fantastic to see fresh local fruit being put to good use. We’ve had an amazing time scrumping for apples, discovering old forgotten Orchards and learning how to use a traditional press. We are now looking forward to widening the project next year so we can also make apple juice and get more of the community involved. It’s been a great way of highlighting the need for us all to think about how to be more resourceful with our local food and the environment. Many of South Gloucestershire ’s orchards have been dug up in the past and many more have been neglected or go unused. Those are the orchards that we have targeted. We will be posting updates and sending out details to those who have registered, about forth coming events where you can sample the cider and more details about the 2010 project.   To keep the local theme going we have created a logo with a tree in the shape of the South Gloucestershire region and in line the group’s ethical policy we have designed  a T-shirt that can be purchase (£12 each), which has been made using water based inks and printed on Organic, Low Carbon Cotton.  If you would like anymore information/ photography on the project please contact Neil Phillips on 07885 214291 or email him at neilphillipsphoto@btopenworld.com Useful Websites http://www.orchardeye.com       http://theorchardgroup.wordpress.com/ Working in Association with South Gloucestershire Council and The Friends of Grimsbury Farm Check out the new Blog for updates on the project, Cidermaking adventures and great photography (hopefully). Throughout, we will be photographing and video-ing the cider making, so we have a visual record which we hope to exhibit at the close of this years project If you are interested in getting involved in the project please register your interest by emailing me at scrumpingproject@btinternet.com giving me your name, contact phone number, the area the apples are to be collected from and if possible the type apples that you can supply**. You can also phone me on 07885 214291 (Neil Phillips) We are a non profit making organization/group who hope to fund the project with equipment donations, community grants and sponsorship. We are working on association with South Gloucestershire Council and The Friends of Grimsbury Park Community Farm. We look forward to hearing from you. Best Wishes Neil, None of us have made cider before so there is a chance that it may taste like vinegar ! Having said that we are very enthusiastic amateurs who are reading as many craft cider making books as possible and getting lots of advice from expert cider makers. So keep your fingers crossed. ** The actual definition of Scrumping is ‘to steal apples from Orchards etc’. but of course... WE DON’T WANT ANY STOLEN APPLES AND WE DO NOT ENCOURAGE /CONDONE THE STEALING OF APPLES !!! http://theorchardgroup.wordpress.commailto:neilphillipsphoto@btopenworld.comhttp://www.orchardeye.com/http://theorchardgroup.wordpress.com/http://theorchardgroup.wordpress.com/mailto:scrumpingproject@btinternet.comshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5