Stephen Hayes has been a long time member of ukcider and maintainer of a website about his apple orchard and cider interests. Now he’s turned the main index of Fruitwise into a blog:
This is the new index page, I will be keeping a sort of diary here through the apple season.
Welcome to blogging, Stephen and Julia!
On the 5th August there is a sorry tale of another local shop closing, with some typical pithy commentary:
There is something wrong with a society where a populous local community (and it’s the same in our village of Botley) can support a supermarket, a betting shop, estate agent, several pubs and restaurants, 2 take aways, several hair, nail and other beauty shops (maybe a cancer-inducing tanning salon too) but where it is uneconomic to run a shop selling that most basic necessity of all, fresh vegetables and fruit. Too bad.
So if you are interested in following the story of small scale apple orchard production in southern England I would recommend a subscription to Fruitwise ( RSS ) , and wish Stephen happy blogging with the new site.
