RecipeMuncher

Last weekend we went apple picking . A patch by the railwayside amongst all the scrub land there are tonnes of apple trees. I wonder if this was an orchard once because there are a lot of varieties from dark red to pale yellow.  Britain has more than 3000 varieties of native apples however data from Natural England showed orchards in  England have declined by 63% since 1950. In 2007  imported nearly 70% of our apples (Defra Basic Horticultural Statistics 2008). However more and more commun (...)