Close-up of blooming white pear blossoms on a tree branch with green leaves and a blue sky in the background.
A ripe apple hanging on an apple tree branch surrounded by green leaves.
Close-up of a label showing 'Cream Cheese' with the original packaging design, including a red circle background and text indicating it is made in Gloucestershire, with nutritional information about 10.4% fat.
A row of four glass bottles of Bushel Peach cider outdoors on a wooden log with a background of apple trees and branches. The bottles feature different labels indicating flavors: fresh and crisp, rich and mellow, bright and breezy, and the cider is handcrafted in Gloucestershire.
Logo with the words "Bushel + Peck" and smaller text "Cider + Perry" to the right.
Multiple fruit trees with pink blossoms in a green field under a partly cloudy blue sky.

Cider and Orchards

Making interesting cider and perry to conserve valuable traditional orchards

Orchards and Cider

Conserving valuable traditional orchards to make interesting cider and perry

Ripe, hand-picked apples on their way to the press
Traditional orchard in Dymock, Gloucestershire
BUSHEL+PECK's range of Limited Edition 750ml ciders
The beauty of pear blossom in the spring
Humblebee natural pressed apple juice - nothing added, nothing taken away
Perfectly ripe, freshly picked apples in crates, on their way to the press in the cider-barn
Henley Bank perry pear orchard in Brockworth, Gloucester,
Beautiful apple blossom in the spring
“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”
— Walt Whitman
Four glass bottles of Bushnell pear cider resting on a wooden surface outdoors with a backdrop of green trees and sunlight, featuring labels displaying various flavor descriptions such as 'Fresh & Crisp', 'Rich & Mellow', and 'Bright & Breezy'.
A bottle of Bushel Peck medium sweet cider placed on a wooden surface outdoors, with trees and blue sky in the background.
Close-up of a label on a food product, stating it is made in Gloucestershire, featuring a red circle with white text, and mentions 10% A.O.B.
Close-up of four bottles of cider with white labels and different colored text, placed on a wooden surface against a dark background.

Cider and perry

We make fine cider and perry, made with 100% freshly pressed juice pressed from unsprayed fruit gathered from local orchards. Almost all of our ciders are made using wild yeast, so they better reflect the apples from which they are made and the land from which they come.

Simple : Local : Responsible : Sustainable : Supportive

We make a core range of blended ciders, as well as an ever-changing range of Limited Edition ciders. To find out more, please click on the button below.

Cider and Perry
Humblebee apple juice - refreshingly simple, reassuringly natural

We make delicious apple juice, in the same way we make our ciders - from 100% freshly pressed juice pressed from local, unsprayed apples … but then bottle and pasteurise the juice, rather than let it ferment. The process is refreshingly simple, the result is strikingly tasty.

Nothing added, nothing taken away

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Natural Pressed Apple Juice

Apple Juice
Traditional cider apple orchard in Dymock

When we’re not making cider and perry, we spend our time in traditional orchards, either as a volunteer with the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust, or helping to conserve and maintain orchards on a commercial basis. We plan and plant new orchards, we maintain old orchards, we prune fruit trees, and we teach orchard management skills and techniques.

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Orchard Services

Orchards
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The best way to ensure a rare cultivar survives is to plant it in as many different location as possible, so we’re working to have as many Gloucestershire varieties of apple available for sale as possible (the current count is 65) - and although not complete, we believe it’s the widest range of Gloucestershire apple cultivars available anywhere.

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Henley Bank perry pear orchard in summer

Fruit Trees: Gloucestershire apples

fruit trees

Passing Thoughts

More commonly referred to as a blog, this is where we share our thoughts about all manner of things, mostly related to the pomological world and orchards in general, but also about things that are happening in the wider world, about why we give our Limited Edition ciders the names we do, about the cider industry as a whole … and very occasionally we write about our own cider and perry.

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Passing thoughts