Meet the makers
Dylan & Renate
We're Dylan and Renate, the husband and wife team behind Cotswold Orchard Herbs. Thank you so much for visiting our website, we would love to share our Fire Cider with you.
Read on to find out how we started Cotswold Orchard Herbs.
Starting out
The Orchard
Renate and Dylan started Cotswold Orchard Herbs in a very old and wild 3-acre orchard near Stow-on-the-Wold in the heart of the Cotswolds in early 2022. They are restoring the Orchard into a ‘wildish’ horticultural oasis…well that’s the plan!
Renate has always had a strong passion for health and wellbeing and Dylan a strong passion for cooking especially with fresh herbs, as well as designing and repurposing ‘stuff’.
Combining these interests (after a life changing event) in late 2021 they decided to start to grow herbs, using organic principals, for both culinary and wellbeing purposes - together with the abundance of forage and fruits that the orchard constantly provides.
Growing
Branching out
They have both been on a huge learning curve and have laughed and cried on numerous occasions, sowing, growing, harvesting, gathering, chopping, cooking, tasting and producing – it’s been fantastic and exhausting!
They have been appearing at markets and festivals in the local area and have met so many lovely people who share Renate’s passion for health and wellbeing, trying and buying her herbs and produce.
One item stood out, Fire Cider, it ticked all the boxes - homemade, natural, raw, tastes amazing, people love it!
They wanted to be able to share the wellbeing goodness of their Fire Cider far & wide so they started this website where customers old and new can purchase their Fire Cider whenever is convenient for them - no more waiting for market day!
Expanding
Further afield
Now you can find our Fire Cider in independent shops all over the south of England, and even one in Wales!
Renate can often be found handing out tasters in far flung farm shops, spreading the word about this delicious infusion!
