STAMFORD COMMUNITY ORCHARD GROUP

Loan of SCOG Apple Processing Kit

Make your own apple juice, cider and cider vinegar

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Local community, gardening and school groups within 30 miles of Stamford are invited to borrow the SCOG Apple Processing Kit. If you have apple trees which produce so much that most of the fruit goes to waste each year – or know of apples which aren’t being eaten – then this is a wonderful way to have fun making your apple juice for the year, celebrating local apples, and reducing your use of imported juice in tetra packs and plastic bottles.

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We have several apple mills and presses as well as a useful online guide. You provide the apples and storage bottles so that you can preserve your juice for the year ahead or make cider and cider vinegar. Once pasteurised, the apple juice will keep for a year and still be far more delicious than anything you can buy. So now is your chance to start making your own and start planning fantastic juice making party or school activity!

 

Loans for long weekends from September 1st to November 1st to be collected and returned in Ketton with a £50 returnable deposit to cover cancellation, loss or damage.

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SCOG can lend you an apple mill (large bucket and basher), an apple press, trays and fruit tubs. You can also download this online guide – SCOG Apple and Orchard Guide

You need to provide:
•    Apples – windfalls or picked, but not heavily bruised or mouldy.
•    Plastic pouring jugs and funnels
•    Containers eg. plastic milk/juice bottles
•    Kitchen sieve
•    Cloths, sponges
•    Mop and bucket
•    Large buckets or wheelbarrow for waste pomace. This can then be put on the compost, fed to pigs or used for making pickles, vinegar or apple wine.
•    Don’t forget to do a risk assessment
 
Please return equipment in a dry, clean condition, ie. without apple pieces or pulp as it dries hard on the equipment.
SCOG does not provide insurance cover for use of the equipment so it is your responsibility for any personal injury.

 

We ask that you take pictures or a video of your processing and email to SCOGchair@gmail.com or put them on Dropbox or similar. We can use these images in our social media and website.

 

Complete this form and arrange the collection and return time by emailing it to scogchair@gmail.com. When you collect please bring a cheque for £50 made out to Stamford Community Orchard Group, which will be returnable unless equipment is lost or damaged.

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Collection/ Return from barn:
Brewery House (Next to Northwick Arms)
High Street (A6121)
Ketton, Stamford PE9 3TA

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Happy pressing!

Adam Cade
SCOG Committee