Cider Making and Apple Tasting

Leo Jordan, the owner of the award-winning Blue Barrel Cider Company, will be joining us to share the art behind cider and perry making.

Come along to the St Anns Community Orchard and spend an afternoon amongst our beautiful fruit-laden trees. Try different heritage and cider varieties. Learn how to pick, mill and press fruit. Learn the equipment required for the process. Hear which fruit varieties produce which qualities in a well-balanced drink. And try a few single and blended ciders to get your taste buds on trend.

Your host will meet you outside the main gates on Ransom Road, so please wait there.

The workshop will be run in the Community Orchard.

Capacity: The maximum group size will be 10 people.

Tickets: The ticket price includes all materials

Facilities: A compost toilet is available at the Orchard with hand sanitizer for hand washing.

Parking: There is plenty of free road-side parking along Ransom Road.

Contact: If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the organiser Kayleigh at [email protected]

Leo Jordan is an orchard manager, cider maker and owner of the CAMRA award winning Blue Barrel Cider. What he doesn’t know about apple and pear trees ain’t worth knowing. https://bluebarrelcider.com/home/

This workshop will be run from the garden next to our Strawbale Building on the Community Orchard. This unique building is hand-built from bales of straw and weatherproofed with clay sourced on site. It’s also off-grid, being naturally insulated by a living roof, with solar panels and a log-burner.

The Community Orchard is a garden maintained by STAA for educational purposes featuring a variety of mature fruit trees, many of them heritage varieties, and also includes a pond and a stream.

St Ann’s Allotments are Grade 2* Listed by Historic England, and designated an Area of Importance for Nature Conservation. It is the oldest and largest are of Victorian detached town gardens in the UK, with over 700-years of history, 500 gardens, and 32 miles of hedgerow.

This event is organised by STAA, a small charity that manages a number of highly regarded projects across 30+ plots at St Ann's Allotments that provide community benefit and offering a wide variety of volunteering opportunities.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St Ann's Allotments, 121 Ransom Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom