Donate Windfall Apples (get free cider!)

There are quite a few projects nationwide, where you can donate windfallen apples (leave some for wildlife!) or apples that you are not going to be eating up, and get free cider in return!

How does this work? It’s simple, really. Just locate your local lovely turn-apples-into-cider maker, then contact to arrange donation. It’s away of preventing food waste. As a thank you, you then usually get a few bottles of quality cider, and the rest is turned into other products like jelly, jam or even more cider to sell!

Locate your local peeps in the Orchard Project’s fruit donation directory. Or visit Wasted Apple to find more communities accepted apples to make into cider.

Here’s a guide from The Orchard Project on how to press your own cider.

Avoid unpasteurised juice for pregnancy/nursing, children and weak immunity.

Urban Harvest (Leeds) also takes wasted apples, but this time turns them into fruit juice, plus a little cider. Why drink Tropicana (one version contains fish?) when you can drink locally-sourced fruit juice for breakfast?

Each year, thousands of city trees go unused, profits are reinvested back into this wonderful project.