03/06 McCaul, 40, picks today's elderflower in a field overlooking Eaton Church, near Belvoir, hose pipe bans likely an
03/06 McCaul, 40, picks today's elderflower in a field overlooking Eaton Church, near Belvoir, hose pipe bans likely and drought affecting crops, one British farmer is making hay while the sun shines as sales of his soft drinks cordial maker, Belvoir Fruit Farms has appealed to the public to help bring in the early Elderflower harvest. While workers at the bottling line are working double shifts to cope with the ,Pev Manners said: '' We've never seen so many orders for our cordials and soft drinks - it must be the ''We've had to put ads in our local papers asking for people to help with the harvest as we just can't pick it quickly enough. .."We pay people to pick in our orchards and from the hedgerows - a car load can be worth up to £60. .."Traditionally elderflowers mark the true start of summer and this year looks like it's going to be a great one for us.''..Belvoir Fruit Farms are the makers of the 'original' elderflower cordial and have the largest organic elderflower orchards in the UK. To make the four million bottles of elderflower cordial and sparkling presse they sell they harvest 50 tons of elderflower or three million flower heads every Elder Facts:..1. The blossoming of the Eldeflower traditionally marks the beginning of Growing it outside your door was believed to keep evil spirit from entering your Elder wood is hollow and was used to make Washing your face in dew gathered from ederflowers was believed to enhance and preserve a woman's youthful Every part of the elder, bark, leaves, flowers and berries has been used in domestic medicine since the days of Hippocrates and the plant has been called nature's medicine Elder was the common wood used to make Mrs. Grieve, the Mrs. Beeton of herbalists, recommended an elderflower infusion as a 'good old fashioned remedy' for colds and throat Elder
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