Video: Apple harvest at Ampleforth
The monks are predicting a bumper harvest this year and a team from the Abbey’s Benedictine community, Ampleforth College pupils and estate staff have been recruited to help get the harvest in before it spoils. It will be put to good use at the abbey’s newly updated cider press and will be used to produce cider.
Father Wulstan Peterburs, procurator of Ampleforth College and the Ampleforth Abbey Trust, said: “The orchard is one of our greatest assets here at Ampleforth, supporting the charitable work of our community.”
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