Producing the Goods

Non-alcoholic Drinks

Fruit juices from apple-growing areas or mineral waters from where they are bottled would make good souvenirs if they carry the local distinctiveness through into limited local distribution and sensitive packaging. There are many places where apple juice maintains it specificity: if you are in Stoke Gabriel (Devon), you can buy apple juice from Yarde Orchard in the local shop. Near Tring (Herts) is the preserved smallholding of Dunsley Bungalow, where you can buy juice from unsprayed apples grown in Jeacock's orchard which is part of the smallholding.

Mineral waters have too often gone corporate. The Food Standards Agency keeps a list of bottled mineral water producers whose authenticity it recognises (and the source of the water) on its web-site; many of them are now national brands, wasting CO2 on road journeys of hundreds of miles when H20 is available from your tap, so the novelty of bringing them from a place yourself is diminished. In Buxton, though, you can collect the local mineral water from St Ann's well in the town centre.

Find local Apple Juice on our Orchards Pathway
Read more on Water and visit our Rivers Pathway

More information:
Mineral Water : <www.food.gov.uk>