Offer of apples & pears, Rutland UK

[Ray Blockley]

I've had a contact from someone in Whissendine, Rutland UK, who has apples & pears free to a good home. Sadly too far for us to travel & we are already being inundated with offers of local fruit.
No idea what types / varieties, but if anyone is closer to Whissendine than me & fancies checking the fruit out, let me know? 👍

Ray. 

[Ray Magness]

Hi Ray,

I've just found this e-mail.

I would be interested in contacting this person and finding out more details. Assuming the offer is still there.

Best wishes

Ray Magness

Camrose Cider Co

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[Ray Blockley]

Hi Ray.

I'll email you off list with all the details.

Ray

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[Ray Magness]

Thanks Ray

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[Roderick Calder-Potts]

I wonder if the people offering apples for free ever reflect on the fact that there are farmers out here who depend on selling apples for a living .

Rod Calder-Potts

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[Ray Blockley]

FAO: Rod Calder-Potts,

Of course they do. 🙄
That's a pretty uninformed shot-in-the-dark comment there, TBH...? 
For your "information" we have supported local orchardists & growers for decades - if we didn't buy the apples from them they would be dumped or virtually given away for animal feed (surprisingly to farmers...).
We pay £150 / tonne for hand picked - but *surplus* dessert & culinary apples, & pears.
Why do we pay so much? Because the fruit is top-notch & it helps these growers & farmers survive. 
And after we've pressed the fruit, we give away for *free* the spent pomace to our local farmers as animal feed (after registering with the council as a producer of waste of course...).
I don't even charge for loading up my trailer to transport this "waste" & deliver it.
Just remember that the folk we are talking about here are folk with 2 or 3 trees in their back garden. 
This particular example is from a very small village school with a few mixed apple & a couple of pear trees on their grounds. 
Even when folk are "offering apples for free" we - like everyone else I know in similar situations - will offer some cash or more usually, a trade of a few bottles of cider. 

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