The Orchard Fruit Company

The Orchard Fruit Company

Food and Beverage Services

Colchester, Essex 210 followers

About us

The Orchard Fruit Company are dedicated to supplying quality top-fruit, stone-fruit, citrus, cherries, grapes and a host of other products to leading UK and European supermarkets and the non-retail sector.

Industry
Food and Beverage Services
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Colchester, Essex
Type
Privately Held

Locations

  • Primary

    OrchardWorld Ltd

    790 The Crescent

    Colchester, Essex CO4 9YQ, GB

    Get directions
  • Norton Folgate Marketing Ltd

    Hempstead Farm

    Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 9BJ, GB

    Get directions

Employees at The Orchard Fruit Company

Updates

  • The Orchard Fruit Company reposted this

    2025 is the 5th year that OrchardWorld Limited will be a sponsor of the City Food & Drink Lecture. Sam Trebbick, Commerical Manager, has commented that Orchard World "continues to value the lecture from a thought leadership and networking point of view. Given the current discourse around the future of farming and small family businesses, both the theme and the timing of John Shropshire as keynote speaker could not be more apt. We are therefore very much looking forward to the lecture on 11th March which we are sure will create some very stimulating debate”

    • No alternative text description for this image
  • ‘Demonstrating Agroecology at Scale’ – a collaboration with Ocado Retail and Soil Association - farm walk held on 24th July 2024 at Boxford Farms Limited Ocado Retail have funded a collaborative venture with the Soil Association to support producers through knowledge sharing on reduced inputs, increasing biodiversity, and improving soil health with agroecological principles. The fundamental outcome of this project is to simply encourage growers to adopt a more sustainable approach to growing their business. The Orchard Fruit Company were very honoured to be asked if we could use Boxford Farms (our main UK top fruit grower) to demonstrate and host one of the events held on the farm on Wednesday 24th July   The plan is to use demonstration farms to be at the centre of a focussed learning network, providing examples of best practice, trials, and innovation in agroecology through hosting farm walks, speaking at events and investigating training opportunities where appropriate. A demonstration farm will have already adopted system level agroecological principles or be in the process of implementing the changes to their farming systems. The event was extremely useful and informative. Attendees included various organic producers from operations of different scales as well as representatives from Natural England, Agrii, Ocado and The Soil Association. All were impressed with the achievements the farm has made in supporting and demonstrating sustainable environment practices. These include an Anaerobic Digestion Plant, which creates heat and power for the farm, hotel and golf club and also a breeding program for beneficial bugs which helps to reduce the use of pesticides.    Bruce McGlashan, Head of Technical for The Orchard Fruit Company said, “Boxford Farms has a fantastic closed loop sustainability model which they have worked hard at over the last 10 years. With the AD plant, the irrigation systems, organic fertiliser production and more recently their Phytoseiulus production, they continue to demonstrate outside the box thinking to build on their already strong environmental and sustainability credentials” A big thank you to Carolyn Coxe from the Soil Association for organising the day and to Robert England from Boxford Farms for hosting the event.

    • No alternative text description for this image
    • No alternative text description for this image
    • No alternative text description for this image
    • No alternative text description for this image

Similar pages