A season full of Autumn bounty

Autumn has brought with it a bounty of fruit on our farm hedgerows and in the garden. The blackberries are plump and huge this year so it hasn't taken long to pick around 20 kilos for our Blackberry Whisky and Apple & Blackberry Gin. The sloes are also bigger in size than last year which makes the picking easier! We know every blackthorn bush to look for on the farm for our sloes and this season there was one spinney which yielded such a lot that we didn't need to stray too far away from it.

Our apples trees in the garden are almost bent double with apples. And everywhere you look people seem to have boxes of apples on their front garden wall for passers-by to help themselves to. Every season is certainly different and this is a season of plenty!

We were lucky enough to have a lovely local customer offer us her quince tree for a wonderful quince picking. Its branches were absolutely groaning with quince! Our Quince Gin is a popular one and some seasons it's difficult to find enough fruit, so we're lucky this year.

What are you enjoying picking this Autumn?