We bought our field a year or so ago. It used to be an apple orchard and many of the apple trees have survived. At the damper end of the field, all but 3 had perished. We have planted our woodland at the damp end, put in a drainage ditch and started to look after the remaining apple trees. This mainly involves a bit of pruning, removing of mistletoe and keep the sheep from eating the bark.
Today, we had our first harvest. As already mentioned, we contracted this out. I had a wee walk up there earlier this afternoon and found this large trailer full of our apples. It’s great, and probably will lead to our first income from our wee farm. No idea how much yet, no idea how many tons of apples there are either. And there are more to come as the trees still have plenty of apples on them. So the second harvest is planned for the end of the month.
