The amazing Orchard Project have been helping volunteers maintain an amazing old orchard on the site of the old St Joseph's Monastery in Mill Hill, with trees over 75 years old. A small, amazing team of volunteers reclaimed the orchard from brambles and have been working with orchard tree experts for a few years to see the best apples picked and distributed through the Felix Project.

I joined a bunch of volunteers from the Orchard Project and the orchard's core volunteer team. We grabbed two sacks - one for eating, one for juicing - and made our way through the orchard picking apples. They had so many varieties - spartans, joybells, bramleys, something that looked a bit coxy, something a bit pearmainy, a lot more unidentified. We even ate a few along the way. The eating apples were picked for perfection - clean, free of holes, no bruising or pecking. The juicers were a bit more rough and ready, including some windfall, as the juicing process pasteurises the results and bottles and seals it all up.

After an hour and a half, we stopped for lunch at the picnic area in the orchard, eating a few more apples and some of the free seaweed crisps the Orchard Project gets from their sponsors. The hardcore volunteers then got back to it for another hour or two, though there were so many apples they didn't pick them all.

If the juicing is successful, they'll need help picking loads more - and Goodgym will be there again!