![Bottling fruit](https://growgreatfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bottled-quinces-367x220-1-267x160.jpg)
This article takes a peek into the wisdom of yesteryear from a well-intentioned but rather condescending little book called “Help for the poor: practical help and practical hints for everyone”, the profits from the sale of which were “devoted [...]
![Cherry pitting](https://growgreatfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cherry-pitter-fork-213x160.jpg)
It’s easy to see the beginnings of the modern cherry pitter in this patent, filed in 1901 by Jesse Crandall of Brooklyn, New York, for a combined cherry pitter and fork. Read the article in Summer - Week 11
![Food self-sufficiency](https://growgreatfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/autumn-fruit-495x296.jpg)
We love being part of the sustainable food movement, which covers everything from people taking an interest in where their food comes from, to permaculture and self-sufficiency. It’s with great interest then that we read this interview with Mr [...]
![Frost management – the old way](https://growgreatfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/frost-protected-cypress-1000x562-crop.jpg)
This article from the Weekly Times Farmers Handbook in 1940 looks at one of the tricks orchardists used to use to combat frost Read the article in Winter - Week 6
![How were apples stored before refrigeration?](https://growgreatfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Gala-apples-williams-pear-mixed-box-1024x1024.jpg)
Apples have been grown for hundreds, if not thousands of years, and have long been valued as a source of nutrition and vitamins in winter. These days we can eat apples all year due to storage in coolstores using modern technology...but how wer [...]
![Moving mature fruit trees](https://growgreatfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/move-a-large-tree-213x160.jpeg)
We would never normally recommend moving a mature fruit tree as the risk of damage and the introduction of disease is so great that there is a good chance they will die, not to mention the huge logistical exercise involved in moving a mature t [...]