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Apple (Malus) · Blackberry · Pear
📍 8PP7+7Q Bradford-on-Avon, UK
🗓 Season: August · September · October · November · July
🔍 When is it ripe?
Apple (Malus): Background skin colour shifts from green toward yellow; seeds turn brown when ripe. Fruit separates from the spur with a gentle upward twist. Aroma develops near the base. Wild Malus fruit is often small and tart — excellent for cider and jelly.
Blackberry: Fully black (not red or dark red) and comes off the stem with no resistance — zero pull. Dull rather than shiny; a shiny black berry is still slightly underripe and tart. Eat the same day for best flavour.
Pear: Unlike apples, pears ripen from the inside out. Harvest when the skin colour lightens and the fruit separates with a gentle upward twist. Ripen off the tree at room temperature — leave on a counter until the neck yields to thumb pressure.
National Trust. Avoncliff Wood.
Thousands of trees planted 2019 including apples and pears. It'll be a few years before a harvest can be had!
A lot of old blackberry around the edges of the field.
North-east corner has some fruit/nut trees hanging over into the field from the area planted ~20 years ago.
A good place to explore august through early autumn for wild and planted foods including edible field weeds.
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