RecipeMuncher

Last weekend we went apple picking . A patch by the railwayside amongst all the scrub land there are many abandoned  apple trees. I wonder if this was an orchard once because there are a lot of varieties from dark red to pale yellow now the area  is almost inaccessible and forgotten with the fruit groaning on the trees and falling to the ground. Britain has more than 3000 varieties of native apples however data from Natural England showed orchards in  England have declined by 63% since 1950 (...)