February 2009 - Finalist at the Produced in Kent Awards for 2008 at Leeds Castle - we came second on the day but so proud in our second year. BBC Radio Kent's John Warnett (a real Kent food & drink supporter) loved the name....watch what we mean here:

Blushing Old Wife, our raspberry cider, makes a big hit at the 2009 Kent Beer Festival - Bronze Award Winner

Our cider making is a family & friends love affair and we welcome anyone who would like to join in the fun of the event either apple picking, loading, barrelling or pressing. We have onsite bed & breakfast and Flint Cottage, our own farm cottage to let. If you are interested then please contact Andy or Jan or go to the Flint Cottage website at Cork Farm.

In addition we live very close to the historic village of Chilham with other accommodation, pubs and Claire & Bruce at Badgers Hill farm shop, one of the first places in Kent to revive the Kent traditional cider making over 20 years ago.

Simon, co-partner of Rough Old Wife Cider also runs traditional cider or cyder making courses for interested amateurs wanting to get more out of there own apples. Due to popular demand courses for 2011 are being held in several locations: At the Cidery, Brogdale School of Artisan Food and Assington Mill see websites for more details. You can also contact him directly on rougholdwife@btinternet.com for course agenda, availability and pricing. The Orchard is also pollinated by his own bees which produce a great bi-product, namely honey! This is sold under the Petham Vale Honey label and can be purchased from him directly or is available in East Kent at certain farmshops. See the website www.thebeeman.co.uk for more details.

Cider is also a great ingredient in cooking and we have recently supplied our cider to H&RHEescargots.         Helen who is local in Littlebourne runs one of the only two English snail farms in the UK. To see the recipe please go to her blog and enjoy!. We have also supplied to Ardennes Restaurant in Faversham where not only could you drink the blushing raspberry cider but a unique fantastic raspberry cider sorbet was created for lucky customers!

"How many can you handle?!"