Farmer's Glory

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The inaugural cohort will take part in further in-person teaching, blended with online sessions throughout the nine months. Last week’s event heard from industry experts and fellow farmers who are already on the sustainability journey, with farmers taking part in networking and focused break-out sessions.

Early-late September. Red-flushed, conical apple, medium sized fruit. Flesh is white, chewy with a hint of strawberry. At its best, one of the best flavoured apples we grow. A choice variety, but scab can be a problem. This apple originates in Scotland, but does not quite match the official description! May be mis-named. The traditional ale at 4.4% abv is brewed with Pale Ale and Crystal malts and has a hint of citrus to create a refreshing perfectly balanced harvest bitter for real ale fans. The Wadworth team of brewers use Fuggles, Challenger and Goldings hops to build the flavour. Birds can be a problem so hang up old CDs and build elaborate scarecrows with battery timers and big hats. Net the bushes if desperate. Well-known russet apple, widely available commercially in season. Alas, originates from Lord Egremont's estate in Sussex, rather than from the West Cumbrian town. Medium fruit, russetted with yellow/green skin and dry, white flesh. At its best, flavour is delicious, nutty. In recent years we have had excellent crops of high quality apples, but the trees took a long time to come fully into production.

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October to December. Small, russetted apple with attractive skin and prominent eye. Intense flavour, with dry, nutty flesh. Originated in Ireland in early 19th century. We have found it a little scab-prone, but otherwise trouble-free.

I haven�t been in the pub before, it�s extremely tastefully done with a real log fire and the food is fabulous. Virtually everything is made from fresh ingredients so Andy�s has to work very hard in the kitchen, Terri makes a wonderful hostess. The house red wine is very fine. The first cohort of around 75 learners gathered for their first in-person event on the university’s campus near Newport, marking the start of a nine-month course. Mid September to late October.Medium-large round, pale yellow fruit with pleasant aroma.Flesh is sharp/sweet, and holds shape well in cooking. Once a popular apple in the Tweedside orchards of Scotland.The old people always seem to grow top prize-winning gooseberries. My 84-year-old neighbour Kate used to entreat me to see her hydrangeas, large seedling avocado trees, and finally her prize gooseberries. They were small bushes, carefully tended, horribly thorny, but covered in glowing red fruit the size of plums, nothing like the old, tiny, green, hard sour lumps of my childhood memories. A Laxton apple, from the early 20th century. Cox crossed with Wealthy, small apples and prone to scab, but good flavour. the portions of vegetables and roast potatoes were small and some pieces of carrot and parsnip were very hard Along with other thorny things like totara and gorse, cattle will avoid them unless fed hard, but horses or goats will not blink at the odd spine, so you do need to protect them.

Wadworth’s brewery team brew a core range of beers and a minimum of eight seasonal beers a year. Farmer’s Glory has stood the test of time and remains the only one to be brewed every August in readiness for the harvest. It will be available in pubs as cask ale throughout September.

October to December. Probably of Victorian descent, large, irregular apples with mild sweet flavour. Very reliable, and usually heavy crops.

One of the school’s core purposes is to develop new talent in the agri-food sector and develop knowledge of sustainable food supply. That knowledge sharing will be critical, and we hope that this group of learners will go on to continue disseminating what they gain here even further through the industry.” Like currants, they thrive in high latitudes and cold arctic climates – I know they grow very well in northern Scotland – which would suggest they will do better the further south you go in New Zealand . Another wonderful Victorian apple, lightly russeted and with excellent flavour. Mid-season apple, keeps well. Speaking about the new branding, CEO for Wadworth, Chris Welham said, “The new look pump clip and brand has real stand out on the bar which is essential today when customers have so much choice. We developed the new look so that this popular beer reached a bigger audience and we are confident it will work”. The main disadvantage of these plants is that they are very thorny, similar in shape and pointedness to the native matagouri or ‘wild Irishman’ scrub so you will get many a punctured finger trimming twigs and opening up the bushes with secateurs. This kind of pruning is a good idea though for helping the fruit to bask in those valuable sugar-yielding solar rays.

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The Future Farmer Programme is being delivered by Harper Adams university’s School of Sustainable Food and Farming and is being sponsored by Tesco, supporting those in the industry aged under 40 to develop their skills in sustainable agriculture. By this time we had had enough. We had been there far too long and there was still 3 more courses to arrive. We asked for the bill. Full price it said! So we queried this with the owner Terri and the head chef who i presume is her partner. They were raging that we had the cheek to complain about there establishment. No apology just disgust that we hadnt enjoyed there efforts. After telling us to just get in our cars and leave and swearing at us at the bar we walked out halfway through our Christmas meal.