Delicious treat on a cold evening.
Still cold evenings and room for a glass of wine and a cheeseboard accompanied by Bentleys Delicious Relish. Take your pick between Plum and Ginger, Plum and Cinnamon or Plum and Chilli.
Unpaid workers!
What a pleasure to see the bees at work. They are a treasured resource and as you know all farmers are doing their best to protect them by removing from use neonicotinoids from our spray repertoire. We always joke bees are our unpaid workers as they industriously work their way through the orchards. There are
Plant Pears for your heirs !
Thinking of the future and here is Clive planting a new conference pear orchard at Bentleys Castle Fruit Farm. We love this spring weather, as do the bees and pollinators. These trees will come into blossom shortly we hope, but will not crop this year. After 6 years they should be into full cropping and
New Look Website
We’re delighted to announce a fresh new look for our website which has been many months in the planning. The website has been redesigned to improve user friendliness and promote our ever expanding range of Bentleys Delicious Products. Check out our Products page for more infomation and don’t forget you can buy fresh, local and
Comice Pear and Colston Bassett Stilton
Here at Castle Fruit Farm we are big fans of the versatile Comice Pear, equally delicious roasted with caramel, baked in a pie or layered in a savoury tart, or, my personal favourite, thinly sliced and eaten with buttery toast. Today we are looking at a beautifully classic, and mouth-watering, flavour combination: pear and stilton.
Just in time for Xmas!
Here at Castle Fruit Farm the shop is full of fruit and Autumn colours. New Bentleys Delicious Plum Relish range is looking good in its presentation box. A perfect gift idea?!
Festive Stuffed Bramleys
We’re only in the first week of December and yet those little mince pies we’ve been chomping since October are already starting to feel a bit tired and passé. Am I right? So, here at Bentley’s Delicious, we’ve come up with a twist on the classic mince pie…the Festive Stuffed Bramley. The beauty of this
2015 Apple Harvest Done!
Most of the apples are in and the rain kept off. Just some more Braeburn to come in. The shop is full so come and find the apple that suits you! We are open everyday except Sunday.
Spiced Apple Salad (Serves 4)
Try this tasty salad recipe, perfect for summer or winter! 3 apples, coarsely chopped 4 sticks celery, chopped 3 tbsp walnuts, coarsely chopped 3 tbsp mayonnaise or yoghurt
Research with the University of Bristol
The apple and plum blossom have been spectacular this last month. We are involved with the University of Bristol who are researching wildlife and modern orcharding . A great link up for us who gave us the intereseting feedback that we had 10 different types of hover fly in our Jazz and Gala orchards !