Buy British apples when you see them and help UK farmers

Ali Capper is in partnership at Stocks Farm, Suckley, Worcestershire UK with her husband Richard and his father Mark, the Cappers specialise in growing hops and apples. They farm dessert & cider apples and hops. Stocks Farm is a 200 year old hop and fruit farm on the glorious Herefordshire/Worcestershire border. It has been farmed by the Capper family since 1962, and is proud to be growing Award Winning British Hops and Apples in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Ali is a Director of the Oxford Farming Conference and she is Chairman of the NFU's National Horticulture & Potatoes Board, British Apples & Pears and Wye Hops. Her Nuffield Scholarship in 2014 focused on the export of great British hops, and niche apple varieties, travelling to Germany, New Zealand, Canada, USA, France, Belgium and Vietnam. For more information on Stocks Farm: == We're delighted to have Gro-rite Horticulture sponsoring World Radio Gardening, find out about automatic pot watering systems available for mail order delivery: bit.ly/3wCPyHy Also, don’t forget – if you like what we do, why not tip Ken and team with a coffee – Buy us a coffee (bit.ly/48RLP75) – as a thank you for the work done to bring this website to life.

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Buy British apples when you see them and help UK farmers is an episode from World Radio Gardening by World Radio Gardening.

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This episode was published on Aug 22, 2025.

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