Where to go?
Here are some of the best places across the UK for your whole family to enjoy the quality time together in nature.
Drove Orchards (果园), Thornham, Norfolk
Drove shines a bit brighter each autumn, when it starts delivering fruit. Many of the fresh apples and pears there are ready-picked as well as PYO (short for pick-your-own). Also juice made from the orchards' special varieties of apples is strongly recommended.
Opening time: 10 am-4 pm daily until the end of October (booking not necessary but checking what's fruiting before visiting at droveorchards.com)
Blooming Green, Linton, Kent
Blooming Green is a "no-dig" flower business, selling flowers directly to customers and opening for PYO activities from summer to the end of October. In November and December there are wreath-making (花环制作) workshops, where participants pick their favorite flowers.
Opening time:10 am-4 pm on Saturdays only (with pre-booking of one-hour slots, bloominggreenflowers.co.uk)
Towerbrook Farm, Banwell, Somerset
Like many other farms, Towerbrook Farm offers pick-your-own and cut-your-own service. But it's the first place that offers dig-your-own Christmas trees, meaning you can take your tree back after the holiday and replant it there, which allows you to avoid sending your tree to the recycling centre.
Opening time: 8am-4pm daily between 20 November and 30 December(pre-booking not necessary)
Shute Fruit, Bishopsteignton, South Devon
As well as selling preserves made from kinds of berries (浆果), Shute Fruit also manages an extensive pick-your-own operation. There you can pick your own sloe berries. If you are a fan of sloe gin, a kind of alcoholic drink, whose alcohol content is between 15 and 30 percent, ask the farm for recipes to make your own sloe gin at home.
Opening time: 11 am-5pm daily except rainy days and Mondays, until the end of October (booking not necessary, shutefruit.co.uk)
1. If you go to Drove Orchards,what can be recommended to you?
A.Delivering fruit. | B.Tasting freshly squeezed apple juice. |
C.Planting Christmas trees. | D.Picking your own apples at 8 am. |
2. If you want to dig your own Christmas tree and take it back, where will you most probably visit?
A.Thorham. | B.Linton. | C.Banwell. | D.Bishopsteignton. |
3. What do the four places have in common??
A.Their relevant Information can be got from the same website. |
B.They have the same opening time. |
C.They all offer pick-your-own service. |
D.They needn't be booked in advance. |