Apple juice &
craft cider
Craft cider & apple juice
Apple
pressing
Volunteer
Fresh from the gardens of Oxfordshire
We make craft cider and apple juice using apples donated from local gardens and orchards - apples that would usually go to waste, either falling from the trees to make a mess in the garden or left to rot. We hate waste & it seems many others do too! We love to receive pears as well.
Dates 2025:
Sat 8th Nov is our last day for receiving fruit for the Pressing Service, but we are still receiving Donations and open for collecting your completed orders.
Sat 8th - 9:30-11:30. Dates after this will be by appointment as we are not going to be there as often.
5th & 6th Dec - Christmas Fair at Old Arngrove Farm.
Coming soon: Pruning Workshop dates in Jan 26.
For more information about apple pressing, please look here.
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Cider tasting
What do you prefer - dry, medium, or sweet? What makes a good cider? Groups of 6 or more can book a date to taste our cider. £15 per head.
Oxford Farmhouse CIC is a community-based organisation that turns waste fruit into delicious, award-winning drinks. The pressing is done with the help of the local community, including men who have been homeless and are getting back on their feet. We also work with schools to teach them about food processes and where food comes from. The Head Teacher from Barton Park School, after a visit to us, said that the children talked about nothing but their visit to us for a whole week!
90% of apples grown in gardens in England go to waste. That's a lot of fruit that could be turned into something delicious instead of being thrown away. Apple pressing usually runs from late Aug until early Nov. In the winter we will be pruning trees, including an old orchard which has apple trees over 100 years old, and holding our annual pruning workshops. Look out for us at markets too.
We provide a rehab space for people seeking to rebuild their lives - this has included people who have been homeless, recovering from addiction, or with neurodiversity. One of the members wrote, 'thank you for helping me get my confidence back.' Volunteers from the local community also help with pressing and pruning, including Abundance Oxford and the Oxford University Nature Conservation Society. We are also pleased to work with Oxford Food Hub and OxFarmToFork.
In the last year, we achieved:
- 1000 volunteer hours of nature conservation and processing waste fruit
- 12 men helped with confidence building, work skills and returning to work
- 11 tons of waste fruit processed
- although we are a modern charity, we also have given fruit, juice or donations to Oxford Mutual Aid & individuals.
One of our fantastic team of volunteers wrote: ‘Having recently suffered with mental health issues & never experiencing so in the past, Andrew and his business offered a safe place to begin to reengage once again as well as offering meaning & purpose. This is more than a business, it offers the opportunity for people like myself to begin to find one’s feet again.’
If you would like to contribute to keep this project going, please donate below. As a CIC, one of the modern charity structures, we are very grateful for your support.
