RHSO News
All the news from RHSO
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As part of our 300 Years celebrations, we hosted 'Paradise is an Orchard': The Rivers 300 Celebration Study Day. A full report can be found here.
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As part of our 300 Year celebration, we will be hosting an Adults Art competition. Please visit the 300 Years page for further information.
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The Rivers 300 Years celebration study day places are now fully booked on Eventbrite. If you attend without having booked, then you may be turned away unless there are cancellations or non-attendances. For further information on this event, visit the 300 Years page.
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We will be selling our apple juice in Bell Street on Satruday 12th April 2025.
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Due to poor weather conditions, today's maintenance day is CANCELLED.
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The Rivers Nursery 300 year anniversary website has been launched.
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In 2025, we will be holding several events to celebrate 300 years since the founding of the Rivers Nursery. Further information to be announced. In the mean time, have a look at the history of the nursery and site.
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Sheet music for wassail songs is now available here.
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Wassail lyrics available here.
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The Rivers Master Stocklist, a list of all cultivars stocked on the Rivers site, is now available in the archives.
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Apple day 2023 was a huge success. We have around 1100 bottles of apple juice, which will be available to buy at Full of Beans, Sawbridgeworth and at local events soon.
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We will be selling all varieties of our Rivers Orchard Apple Juice at Sawbridgeworth May Fair on Fair Green, Sawbridgeworth from 1200 to 1600, Sunday 30th April 2023.
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Our first Rivers Orchard Teddy Bear Picnic Day will take place in the Rivers Orchard on Sunday 14th May, 1200 to 1400. Bring your favourite Teddy, a blanket and a picnic to enjoy among our blossom-laden trees and clouds of bubbles! Our Apple Juice will be available for sale - £3 per bottle.
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A wet and muddy Wassail 2023 was very well attended with the usual tree blessing and singing.
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Wassail song lyrics have are now available on the website. Click here to find them.
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Apple Day 2022 was a huge success! We have over 1000 bottles of apple juice which will be available to sell soon. The apple crop this year was enormous - we probably only picked half of it!.
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There are only a few bottles of our 2021 mixed juice available to buy from Full of Beans in Sawbridgeworth.
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Elizabeth Waugh's book Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth is still available to buy.
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New pre-1900 Rivers Catalogues and pdf versions of The Orchard House and The Miniature Fruit Garden are available in the archives, thanks to Darren Turpin of Orchard Notes.
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Apple Day in 2022 has been moved to Saturday 24th September 10 - 3 owing to the change of weather.
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Our 2021 apple juice (Laxton and Mixed) is available to buy. Please see the "Sales" link above for more information.
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There are a few bottles of the 2019 mixed juice still available to buy. 2020 juice will be available shortly. We have sold out of our single variety juices.
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As CoViD restrictions look likely to last for some time, it is unlikely that we will be able to hold out annual Wassail this January. We will review this decision should the situation change.
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Our mixed apple juice is for sale at Full of Beans at £3 per bottle or £5 for two. Our Cox/Bramley juice is available for collection from Sawbridgeworth or local delivery for those isolating. Please email us for information. We will sell at local stalls where possible.
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Our intrepid volunteers braved the rain to collect this year's apple crop and we have an additional 629 bottles of mixed apple juice for sale.
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CoViD-19 update: Our mixed Apple Juice is for sale at Full of Beans in Sawbridgeworth. We are not selling at local events, but other varieties can be ordered from us by e-mail and collected from Sawbridgeworth or delivered within Sawbridgeworth for people who are isolating.
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A list of fruit varieties present in our orchard in now available.
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Our earliest plum and apricot trees are now out in full blossom!
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The RHSO committee adopted a new management plan for the orchard.
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The RHSO committee was relected at the 2020 AGM.
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Selected historical Rivers Nursery catalogues are now available from the group's archives and a list of Rivers fruit varieties is available from the history page.
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Wassail 2020 was hugely sucessful. A local paper report can be found here.
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Apple Day was a huge success. Almost 1000 bottles of juice are available for sale.
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We have pressed some of the early apples into juice for the first time. This will be available for sale shortly. Some of our 2018 mixed apple juice is also available for sale.
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Our annual Wassail returned in 2019.
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Apple Day 2018 went (literally and metaphorically!) swimmingly!
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Elizabeth Waugh's book "Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth" is available buy again.
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The group reformed under a new constitution.