Southlands Farm

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Apple Pressing at the Farm

Bring a date! Bring the family! Bring your own bottles.

Southlands Farm has the only commercial scale apple press available to the public.
 If you're  nice to us we'll let you use it. 


10 Reasons to come press apples at our Farm:
  1. Everybody loves squishing stuff.
  2. When was the last time you had homemade apple cider?
  3. Ride your bike to the farm, make some cider, pet the goats, feed the ducks, and buy your produce fresh from us.
  4. It's fun experimenting with mixing different apples.
  5. It's as organic and natural as the apples you put in it.
  6. Let your juice go bad.
  7. Then get drunk.
  8. Show off your apple trivia knowledge to your date (*See below).
  9. Anybody can do it.
  10. Hard apple cider is an aphrodisiac.
Our Prices

Below is the cost of purchasing our apples but feel free to bring your own. (Ours taste better though)

Below are our rates to press apples. If you want to buy 5 kg of our apples, for example, and then spend one hour pressing them, your total cost will be $30.

 Price
Our Apples
 3$/Kg
One hour
 15$
Each successive hour
 10$


Note: About half an apple is juice. So if you start with 20kg of apples, you will end up with about 10kg of pure apple cider.




Booking

Please call or email us to schedule your pressing time. Let us know the day and time you would like to come, for how many hours, and how many pounds of apples you need.

Tel: 604 816 8379
Email: SouthlandsFarm@gmail.com

Please bring your own bottles.


 


Apple Trivia

  • The apple is in the rose family. Other famous relatives include the strawberry, almond, apricot, raspberry, and yes, the rose.
  • Back in the day, nobody ate apples; instead they were mostly used to make cider - During prohibition, a time when alcohol was not allowed, an entrepreneurial apple farmer who was unable to sell his apples for cider came up with that famous slogan "an apple a day..." to get people to buy his apples for eating.
  • All the animals in Noah's Ark came in pairs. Except the worms. They came in apples.
  • Dundela, Ontario has a monument on the place were the first McIntosh Red was discovered.
  • All McIntosh apples grown today are clones of this first tree.
  • This is true of many of our apples today.
  • Sound like all these clones could be easily attacked by pests? It's true, the limited genetic diversity of many of our apple cultivars means apple farmers have to use more and more pesticides.
  • Southlands Farm doesn't use pesticides ;)