Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Most good things come to an end and after 10 years or so of coming here 2 Sundays a month from July to December, we have decided to pull out. This video from December 2013 was from our last market, sorry its a bit shaky, I forgot my camera and had to use the mobile phone.
A range of reasons led to this decision. Essentially 'everything has a season' (Ecclesiastes chapter 3) and so many things have changed for Julia and I since this all began that some rebalancing of our lives was appropriate. Just as a sailing ship needs to have the course adjusted for wind and tide.
Julia will still be doing the Fareham Saturday markets from July or August (depending on the plum harvest) until December. Our fruit will be available from select local outlets, particularly Westlands farm shop near Wickham. We will do the Netley Autumn Pumpkin Festival as usual and if anyone wants to pick up a substantial order from our home by arrangement that can be done. I'm not giving out the phone number here but people will be able to contact us via the fruitwise.blogspot.com blog. I have neglected this in the past but will update it weekly from July 2014 to say what fruit we have for sale and where to get it.
Our friend Jez continues to make excellent cider from our fruit. We are reducing the number of trees a bit more and grafting more over to cider. I am also planting perry pears. And I will also be sending out scion wood to graft, expect a video about that here in a week or so.
Most good things come to an end and after 10 years or so of coming here 2 Sundays a month from July to December, we have decided to pull out. This video from December 2013 was from our last market, sorry its a bit shaky, I forgot my camera and had to use the mobile phone.
A range of reasons led to this decision. Essentially 'everything has a season' (Ecclesiastes chapter 3) and so many things have changed for Julia and I since this all began that some rebalancing of our lives was appropriate. Just as a sailing ship needs to have the course adjusted for wind and tide.
Julia will still be doing the Fareham Saturday markets from July or August (depending on the plum harvest) until December. Our fruit will be available from select local outlets, particularly Westlands farm shop near Wickham. We will do the Netley Autumn Pumpkin Festival as usual and if anyone wants to pick up a substantial order from our home by arrangement that can be done. I'm not giving out the phone number here but people will be able to contact us via the fruitwise.blogspot.com blog. I have neglected this in the past but will update it weekly from July 2014 to say what fruit we have for sale and where to get it.
Our friend Jez continues to make excellent cider from our fruit. We are reducing the number of trees a bit more and grafting more over to cider. I am also planting perry pears. And I will also be sending out scion wood to graft, expect a video about that here in a week or so.
