The Menu: The growing revival of Ireland's fruit-producing farms

"It’s not just apples. When did you last have Irish blackcurrants, redcurrants, cherries, gooseberries, or even wild blackberries? A delicious Irish pear?"
The Menu: The growing revival of Ireland's fruit-producing farms

The Apple Farm's Con Traas: a model of best practice for a fruit farm, growing superlative apples, strawberries, raspberries, plums, pears and cherries grown on their orchards and farm, as well as a range of value added products, including fruit juices and in particular, apple juice. 

Perhaps you are reading this over a leisurely weekend breakfast, maybe even sipping an OJ. Relish that sip, for Florida, the home of premium American orange juice, is running out of oranges. 

The Spanish introduced oranges to the ‘New World’ not long after arriving in 1493 and in the late 19th century the orange, high in vitamin C, came to be valued for its health benefits, especially to treat scurvy. 

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