Rescue apples 🍎 Plant trees 🌳 Make cider 🍏 Saving the planet one apple at a time Proceeds to TREES ARE GOOD CIC
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🍎NEW CIDER ALERT🍎
Coton Orchard
From our ‘Origins’ Series, a limited series of ciders to #savecotonorchard
Made using Gilly & Amanda apples blended with Bramleys from Coton's 100yr old trees.
Perfectly balanced, crisp acidity, a dry finish with subtle hints of tannin.
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BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Huge thanks to @BlueBarrelCider, @TreesAreGoodCIC + @CotonBuzz for all they do for nature, for communities locally and beyond. We’ll be raising a glass tonight to everyone who’s stood up to help #SaveCotonOrchard. Whatever the election brings – cheers, and onward 🍎🍺 #CiderWeek
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
🍎 @BlueBarrelCider named their sweet, still cider ‘Cuckoo Returns’ for the bird that called as it was ready. Last year, Coton’s Bramley trees fed the blend. Tonight, the cuckoo sang the year’s first call. Raise a glass, sing Wasail❗️ Help #SaveCotonOrchard #NationalCiderWeek 🍺
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
A bright, blustery morning at @BlueBarrelCider’s Arcadia Orchard, where we picnicked under the blossom, sipped cider, and wandered the orchard with Leo. Idyllic 🌸🐝
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Loved our picnic under the blossom @BlueBarrelCider with @CotonBuzz yesterday. Places like these are disappearing in Cambs please support people who nature them and vote for candidates that protect them #SaveOurOrchards #SaveCotonOrchard 🗳️🟢⚪️🔵✅ Cheers 🍏🍐🍻 🐝
A bright, blustery morning at @BlueBarrelCider’s Arcadia Orchard, where we picnicked under the blossom, sipped cider, and wandered the orchard with Leo. Idyllic 🌸🐝
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Potted on our 8 little Deakin/Macfarlane saplings today. After Easter they’ll go to their guardians around the village till they’re big enough to go into the orchard 🌱🐝
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Amidst the GCP’s half-a-billion-pound bonkers busway bonanza—bulldozed figuratively now, literally later—it’s nice to have some good news. Ems & Leo of @BlueBarrelCider and @TreesAreGoodCIC have been quietly cracking on, helping neighbours, communities, and nature alike. Their latest effort? Teaming up with Coton Orchard to rescue heritage fruit, revive the craft of cider-making, and fund the fight to #SaveCotonOrchard. Their ciders, Cuckoo’s Return and East to Eden Origins Series, don’t just taste good—they do good. Raise a glass, raise awareness, and enjoy a sip to save England's Eden, Cheers! : youtu.be/AErPSHAN_Qw?si=2CT7…
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Six months ago a seed was cast, a post, a gift of pips. From the forests of Kazakhstan and the Heavenly Mountains to Coton’s Story Orchard, from Barrie Juniper’s hands to @BlueBarrelCider. Origins in the East to England’s Eden, the story grows. With thanks to @RobGMacfarlane 🌳🍎
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Last grafting class of the year—huge thanks to Leo @BlueBarrelCider for a brilliant, informative day, and to Coton Orchard for hosting (and breakfast!). 30+ trees added to the nursery for planting in the community. A hopeful day, planning for a future beyond the busway threat🌱🐝
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Brilliant morning. The Orchard looked beautiful in the sunlight. Thank you @BlueBarrelCider @CotonBuzz and @BonkersBusway
Last grafting class of the year—huge thanks to Leo @BlueBarrelCider for a brilliant, informative day, and to Coton Orchard for hosting (and breakfast!). 30+ trees added to the nursery for planting in the community. A hopeful day, planning for a future beyond the busway threat🌱🐝
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
A good looking cider bar at @CAMRA_Official @ElyCAMRA’s 15th Winter Beer Festival, running today and tomorrow in @themaltingsely. Featuring @BlueBarrelCider @GwatkinCider @PurbeckCiderCom @sandfordorchard @CiderTemple Toye’s Cider, and more! I’ll be there tomorrow around 11am :)X
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
A frosty aerial view of Coton Orchard & @MadingleyHill reveals the true scale of what’s at risk. Without leaves, it’s clear how many trees there are and how tall they stand, dwarfing buildings. With a TPO granted for the ancient Bramleys, we’ve won a battle, but the fight goes on
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
The council boasts of planting 500 trees since 2019—maple, alder, birch, cherry, oak, etc. Yet in Coton Parish, we’ve planted 1,680+ Woodland trees, plus 100+ fruit trees in 2 years. These saplings can’t replace the 40–100-year-old trees and hedgerows they’re supporting felling.
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Green future or greenwashing❓ @SouthCambs offers 6 saplings to Coton while failing to protect 12 ancient Bramley apple trees and backing a busway that will fell hundreds of mature trees. scambs.gov.uk/climate-emerge… #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌ ✏️ change.org/p/save-the-green-…
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
Today, we joined @CotonBuzz to plant a sapling cultivated from the tree of Barrie Juniper—a renowned British plant scientist and Oxford professor—grown from seeds he collected in Tian Shan, the ‘Heavenly Mountains’ spanning Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China’s Xinjiang province, where the wild ancestors of all apples are found. We marked the occasion with a glass from the first of three bottles in the limited “Origins” series: Dry, Medium, and Sweet ciders, created by @BlueBarrelCider and Coton Orchard to support the #SaveCotonOrchard campaign. Each label showcases a segment of an illustration by Cambridge researcher Naï Zakharia, inspired by these ancient landscapes. East to Eden—a tribute to the apple’s journey from Central Asia to England’s orchards. Cambridge residents can find this exclusive bottling at the @MillRoadFair, Saturday 7th December. Cheers 🍻
BlueBarrelCider retweeted
The clock has been started by @CambsCC to fell hundreds of trees, including ancient Bramleys, oaks, ash & elms. @SouthCambs has delayed protection orders for 12 of the oldest ones for 265 days. Zero hour: 8 Jan to object. Act now: cotonbuswayaction.com #NationalTreeWeek 🌳🪓❌
Please note our Xmas delivery dates🎄
We are closed for a longer period this year as we take some time out with our family
🍎You can find us the following Xmas markets -
🌲@eddingtonevents 30th & 1st Dec
🌲@millroadwinterfair 7th Dec
Last local delivery date Fri 6th Dec
