Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2010 | Page 105

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Island Life - June/July 2010

Cherries galoreand much more!
PETER WHITE visited Godshill to meet
STUART PIERCE, a man who used to try
to make a living in pig farming, but has
now discovered a far more fruitful way of
bringing home the bacon.

For the past four years Stuart Pierce

the Bevas family from Apse Heath

than cherries, so with a sharp air frost

has quietly gone about his business of

grow raspberries, blackberries and

we could lose the whole lot.

supplying the Island with a plentiful

gooseberries.

supply of cherries.
Stuart took over the Godshill Cherry

“With the combination of the three

“So these nectarines have been bred
in France with a view to bringing them

we will have most of the fruit covered

here, because there is a tremendous

Orchard with business partner Rob

for the whole of the island. Apart from

dem