Somerset cider makers left with very few apples after heatwaves

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• Mertn33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1/4 of a century ago I went to a Somerset cider farm. It had apple trees and a big apple press and great cider for tasting. Out the back though they had hundreds of drums of apple juice concentrate made in Israel.

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  • okwithmydecay@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you have a source to back up this claim?

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Saw it with her own eyes 😂.

      Nah. She’s making it up.

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    • Mertn33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Only my eyes.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah this claim is totally unbelievable.

      No one goes to Somerset.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Drove past some orchards yesterday in Somerset/ Devon. The ground is red with fallen apples. Rivers of them between the trees.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This shit just got real

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• Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I live in Somerset and have three apple trees which are all absolutely laden with apples…

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• spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good thing they are cider makers not apple growers

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  • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Where do you think the cider presses get their apples?

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    • spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Walmart

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t know what she’s talking about, I’ve got hundreds of apples from my two trees. They always produce loads of apples but this year has been insane.

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  • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are the apples good? My plum tree has gone nuts too but its a) watered which a lot of orchards won’t be, and b) almost all the fruit is absolute shit or eaten to buggery.

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• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My favorite brand is Dixon

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