We approach apple growing a little differently to most. Having sought more regenerative practices for the last decade we have encouraged diversity through agroforestry. Air and light around our fruit trees vastly reduces disease burden and wildflower strips encourage natural pest predators. This leads to a vastly reduced chemical input and a major step towards nutrient dense apples or in the case of fruit destined for keeving, a proportional nutrient balance, Space around trees also lends itself to our new "Shake & catch" harvesting system.