We will be offering
our apple pressing
service again this year
look below for more details.
CAFE • FARM SHOP
Photo by Bex Maini
www.bexphoto.com
Located in Buxted, on the Wealdway in East Sussex, Oast Farm is a family-run Fruit Farm, Shop and Cafe
The Farm Shop and Cafe offer our own fruit and fresh, good quality local produce.
We pride ourselves in sourcing only the best from local providers; other farm shops, butchers, bakers, cheesemakers, dairy, smokery, fishmonger, to name but a few.
We sell a wide range of produce in our farm shop. As well as our own fruit, jams, jellies, chutneys and our apple and pear juice, we sell fresh seasonable vegetables, local eggs and honey (from hives on the farm) cheese, dairy, meat and game. We sell bread from Flint Owl, the celebrated artisan bakery in Glynde, plus popular cakes baked in nearby Framfield, and much more.
The Cafe has a menu to suit all tastes and we cater for all dietary requirements including vegan, gluten and dairy free options. All our food is cooked to order using the produce we sell in the shop, including our own fruit.
We hope to see you soon.
Phone
01825 733592
Location
Oast Farm
Lephams Bridge
Buxted, East Sussex
TN22 4AU
SHOP HOURS
Mon-Sat 9am–5pm
Sun closed
cafe hours
Mon-sat 10am-4pm
Sun closed
Photos by Bex Maini - www.bexphoto.com
Apple Pressing Service 2024
Apple juicing, bottling and pasteurising.
Bring us your home grown apples, then collect your own juice
How It Works
bring your clean, ripe apples to the shop
(Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons are best for us)
put them into the boxes provided and label with your contact details
pay a deposit of approximately half of the total cost
we will contact your when your juice is ready to collect
(Please see below for FAQs or ring the shop for further information on 01825 733592)
Our eco credentials
Our bottles are washed, sterilised and reused. Please return them; we will pay 25p for each clean, undamaged bottle returned.
(This applies only to the bottles used for our pressing service, not the bottles of juice purchased in the shop)
Our presses are operated by muscle power or water pressure (depending on the quantity) to save electricity.
Our pasteuriser is heated by burning apple prunings. saving power and using waste products
APPLE PRESSING FAQs
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Different varieties ripen at different times. Ripe apples come off the tree easily if given a slight twist, so check each tree. If apples are falling off the tree on their own, they are probably ripe. Also, the pips go brown as the apples ripen.
Of course, the easiest way to tell if your apples are ripe is to eat one!
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Yes, please! We reuse our bottles, so please return clean, undamaged bottles without their lids (we can't reuse those) and we will pay you 25p for every one you return.
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The leftover pulp (or cheese as it’s known) is fed to local livestock.
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The pasteurised bottles have a shelf life of over a year. So anything bottled in 2024 should be good until the end of 2025.
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Apples are more than 50% juice! So 10kg of apples will make about 6 litres of juice. The standard supermarket box will contain about 10kg of apples.
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We can juice windfall apples, but only clean ones in good condition. We will reject any apples that contain stones, worm rot or bird damage. Generally speaking, the better the apples the better the juice.
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Cooking apples often make wonderful juice. It tends to be sharper than eating apple juice. If you only have cooking apples, we can add some sweeter apples into the juice pressing if you like (please ask).
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Yes, but please ask. We would ask you to bring a container for the juice.
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We will charge you £2.50 per litre, with a 25p refund when you return the bottle.
Juice for cider by agreement.
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The shop and cafe are open Monday to Saturday. The best times to deliver apples are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons- we press and pasteurise on Thursday and Friday, so if you deliver before then you can be sure to have your apples juiced freshly.
Contact Us
Send us a message if you'd like to know any more information, or if you'd like to place an order, or to book a table at the Cafe.
We look forward to hearing from you
Oast farm buxted
Lephams Bridge, Buxted,
East Sussex, TN224AU
01825 733592
oastfarmbuxted@gmail.com
a month ago
Went for my birthday lunch with my mum on 19/06. I had the sausage sandwich and mum had a fruit scone with cream and jam. They were delicious, proper sausages. And the young waitress was so friendly and a real breath of fresh air. Would love to come back and try the rest of their menu
Joanna Martin recommends Oast Farm Shop and Cafe
a year ago
Lovely Place, great atmosphere and delicious food. I’ll definitely be back
Tripadvisor
CamBird
Reviewed 6 February 2023 via mobile
Oast Farm, set in rolling Sussex countryside, is accessible and has a lovely, welcoming team.
It is rare in offering coffee in actual cafetières so you can pour your own as you want, just great. And the menu of cooked-to-order meals and freshly baked pastries is a sensory delight!
Relaxed, friendly and very good value this cafe is highly recommended.