When life gives you apples…

…We swap them for cider

Our 2025 apple swap will be held on:

13th September 11-4pm

20th September 11-4pm

27th September 11-4pm

4th October 11-4pm

The exchange rate this year is 12kg for a 330ml Cowfold Cider bottle OR pint OR 500ml takeaway from the tap

Please bring your own bottle to fill up from the tap, or we can sell you one. We can give you a voucher to collect your cider over the next year, if it is too much for you in one go.

To swap apples for cider, just turn up with your fruit - we will check them and weigh them and give you cider or vouchers in return. There is no need to book or let us know you’re coming, and you can take your apple container home with you.

We serve burgers and cider on the farm every Saturday, so please join us for lunch if you’re dropping off fruit.

For what sort of fruit to bring, please read below -

We love all types of apples no matter shape, size or container - bins, buckets or bowler hats will do.

The only exception to this are Bramleys - we won't be able to take any Bramley apples this year as they are too acidic and block the filters on our apple press. We apologise if this is all you grow - they're not good for our cider, but luckily great for apple pie...

We ask that you make sure your apples are perfectly ripe - this is vital for making tasty cider. Over ripe apples will go bad in the bin and can spoil the cider with moulds. Under ripe apples have too much starch which block our filters and won't ferment, so are pretty much no good to us.

We don't spray our apples as we don't want nasties going into our cider - please only bring us unsprayed, clean and naturally delicious fruit.

Ugly fruit and small bruises are not a problem - anything you think is good enough to eat or cook with, is good enough for Silly Moo Cider.

We know that some of your trees will come into harvest before we start our swap. We don't start pressing until our orchard is ready to pick, which tends to be later in the season. This is because the later ripening varieties tend to be better for cider than the earlier apples. We would ask that you don't pick your apples much in advance of swapping them. Apples left in damp and poorly ventilated containers will start to go bad and can ruin our cider by introducing nasty moulds.

Please do not bring us muddy fruit. Our washing system struggles to cope with mud on fallen fruit and can taint our cider. We will have to reject any muddy, mouldy or unripe fruit this year. Thank you.