Village Apple Day

Long Wittenham Village Apple Day

at the Sylva Wood Centre

                    organised by Wittenham Warriors & hosted by Sylva Foundation

Apple Juicing -Turn your home grown apples into delicious juice in six easy steps!

1 Bring along boxes/bags of washed, dry apples that are free from bruising & mould to the Wood Centre from 10am – 12noon. The quality of the fruit determines the quality of the juice.

2 We will weigh your apples & calculate how many bottles of juice they will provide & issue you with a collection ticket. Approximately  2kg apples  =  one 75cl bottle

3 Your apples will be added to others  if necessary to make up a full load to go into the Apple Mill where they will be crushed.

4 The crushed apples are then put into the Apple Press which with the aid of high pressure water will be pressed to produce juice (no water is added to juice). Vitamin C is added to prevent apples browning.

5 The juice is then bottled & capped (bottles are provided) and placed into the pasteuriser where it is heated to at least 70C  & held at this temperature for 20 minutes, this kills off any bacteria and gives the juice a shelf life of up to 18 months.

6 Once cooled the bottles of juice are ready for collection & consumption. Collection from 1pm until 3pm.

So that we can cover the cost of bottles/caps/extra pasteuriser/equipment we will need to charge £3 per bottle of juice.

If you would like to show your appreciation for the service there will be a donations box, any monies will go back into future village projects.

If you  would like to donate or have more apples than you want to juice please let us have them as we can then sell the bottles of juice to others in the community who don’t have access to apple trees.

If you are unable to get your apples to the Wood Centre then let us know and we will try & arrange collection.

Volunteers needed to help on the day. Weighing, sorting, pulping, juicing, bottling, pasteurising, labelling, feeding the volunteers plus lots more, its really good fun!!

Contact Sally Duff; 01865 407788/07899 097612 richsal2000@yahoo.co.uk