Well here we are once again back to adding our regular blog about what is going on at the farm.

This winter we have a large project to get through. There has been a constant lack of cold storage space so now is the time to put up a new 5000sq ft. building to house 4 new stores in half of the area and looking forward to next year a further 4 stores in the other half of the building. The shell of the building is up but not yet clad and we are levelling the ground in preparation for the reinforced concrete floor and hopefully this will be done in the next week or two.

Meanwhile a separate gang are commencing pruning and today they had a lesson to brush up their thoughts on this. Right now is the time when we are flat out trying to juice as much fruit as we can to free up more space within the cold stores so that we can squeeze in the last of the picked apples and pears. It has been a very busy picking season but it is now all finished and our pickers from all over the world have started to go home, the last 3 Bulgarians didn’t want to leave and were crying for most of the last day, it was very sad to see them go.

More next week!

Regards David.

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