Harrow Weald was once full of thriving apple orchards, many houses around the area still have some mature apple trees producing apples in abundance.
Each year many fully grown apples fall from our trees and are wasted. But this does not need to be the case.
September - October 2025
We will arrange to collect these apples from the local area and turn them into our community apple juice.
Recycling Apples project:contact details
Please donate your apples to our yearly Apple recycling project (Drop off ParkLife Café)
Do you have spare garden apples (between now and then) please donate them to us.
We press them and make our own apple juice which we will sell in the ParkLife café
Funds raised for community events.
Interesting fact: Jim Arbury from RHS Wisley identified lots of different varieties:
- Hambledon deux-ans (cooker),
- Mere de Menage (cooker)
- A possible Grenadier (cooker)
- Bramley (Cooker)
- Blenheim Orange
- Warners King (cooker)
- Baldwin
- Sturmer Pippin
- Bismarck (cooker)
- A possible Cockle Pippin
Making our Apple juice flavourful
Most people have way to many apples even after cooking apple pies, chutneys, sauces, so we started to collect these excess apples and partnered with an apple press to produce ParkLife community orchard apple juice to sell locally and raise funds for projects.
We are interested in working with local producers:
- Chutney
- Sauces
- Honey
Donating apples!
- We can collect Locally around Harrow
- Supply postage details for boxes
- Drop off at ParkLife Cafe
Park groups in Harrow
We are hoping to use a local Apple press within Harrow, that is available to all park groups to use to create donations for your park. if enough parks get involved. Alternatively we will help you use the professional presses, use.
If you are part of a park group in Harrow and would like to create and sell your own apple juice, please contact us for any help required.
You can start the ball rolling now by asking your park users about donating their unwanted apples.