Aston Orchard

Name: Aston Organic Orchard

Where: Risby, Suffolk

Crops you are likely to find in your box: Apples

[img_assist|nid=39|title=Tony Fuller|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=188|height=250]Aston Organic Orchard is rather special to me as it is the place where I grew up. Risby, just outside Bury St. Edmunds, was traditionally a village with several orchards. Over time, many of these orchards have sadly dissappeared. Aston orchard, too, was destined to be grubbed up in the late 1980's but was saved from this fate by Roger Catchpole (my father) who then also put it into convertion to organic. 

Varieties of apple grown at Aston Organic Orchard are Bramleys and Grenadiers (both cookers) and Spartan. The orchard is now managed by Tony Fuller, pictured.