It’s the most glorious time of year – when the orchards leap into life and the pink and white apple blossom flowers.

Bountiful blossoms are a good sign for a healthy harvest ahead, but in the coming weeks we need to rely on the bees to do their job.  Pollination is what prompts the apples to be formed at the base of each flower.

Following our wonderful Halstow Wassail earlier in the year, on Old Twelfth Night, we have every hope and expectation of a bumper harvest, but just to help things along, folk singer/songwriter Jim Causley serenaded the trees one more time earlier this month in the “Maying” tradition.

This custom was designed to “bring in the May” – and involved singers creeping into the orchards at daybreak, singing a “blossail song” as a way to anticipate the coming season.

Don’t forget you can visit the farm and see the blossom for yourself – by purchasing a farm and cider tour.