Holy Moly! If we cannot eat all these apples then let us DRINK them = Pure & Local Apple Juice!
Why Mobile Juicing?
Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project has worked persistently to rebuild the critical infrastructure needed to store and process the region’s previously wasted heritage fruit into a value-added product. As a result, small family farms that have not had reliable markets for their orchard crops in decades now can receive revenue from their fruit, incentivizing them to manage their orchards and plant new trees. These heritage orchards are irreplaceable building blocks for a restored economy based upon the legendary quality and diversity of Montezuma Valley Fruits.
Our Service
Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project and the Apple Core Project have teamed up to offer Mobile Juicing Service to farmers, orchard owners, cider makers, and other local enterprises located in SW Colorado and the Four Corners Region. We offer both pasteurized and non pasteurized juicing service. Pasteurized juice is packaged into Bag in Boxes for retail sales. Non pasteurized juice is pressed directly into totes/tanks for hard cider production.
Pasteurized juice production for retail sales requires a facility approved for manufactured food processing (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan/HACCP). MORP currently has two approved sites, 1) its own Orchard Hub location at 13729 Road 29, Dolores, Colorado, and 2) Triple M Orchards in Olathe, CO.
Please see price list below for processing apples and pears. We can also process other fruits including grapes and berries, and stone fruits such as peaches, cherries, apricots, and plums. Those prices are TBD so please contact us with questions: morporchard@gmail.com
MORP can service a 60 mile radius from Dolores, Colorado. One hundred bushel minimum in Montezuma County; 400 bushel minimum elsewhere. Pasteurized juice for retail sales requires a HACCP approved location. For distances greater than 60 miles or to discuss HACCP approval, please contact us: morporchard@gmail.com.
When harvesting your Fruit:
- Harvest from tree or shake onto clean tarp. No ground falls allowed.
- Fruit must be clean – free of dirt, manure, leaves, twigs, or rot, and harvested into clean, intact crates or bins (see our Harvest Lending Supplies). For fruit being used for pasteurized juice boxes vs an ingredient for fermented cider, do not harvest where there is fresh manure and livestock. Follow GAP practices. We will reject receiving any deliveries of fruit that have signs of not meeting these conditions.
Apple & Pear Juicing prices
- Pasteurized juice boxes when YOU provide the fruit: See prices* in table below. (For other fruits contact us for a quote.) Minimum required quantity is 20 bushels per customer. If using your own packaging, including own label, contact us for design and packaging requirements before ordering.
- For qualities less than 20 bushels, attend a Community Juicing day in October. Go to our events page to see if one is coming up.
- WHERE TO PURCHASE
- Non pasteurized juice when YOU provide the apples/pears pressed into own totes/tanks: $2 per gallon*.
- Non pasteurized juice when WE provide the apples/pears pressed into your own totes/tanks: $6.50 per gallon. Customer responsible for transport. (this service is limited depending on our capacity to harvest.)
*50 cent travel fee per gallon or bag/pouch when traveling outside of Montezuna County
Bag in Boxes and Pouches (minimum 20 bushels)
| 2024 Prices for pasteurized apple and pear | 5 Liter | 3 Liter | 1.5 Liter |
| Qnt < 100 bushels in MORP packaging | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Qnt = or > 100 bushels in MORP packaging | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Qnt < 100 bushels in your own packaging | $6.50 | $4.50 | $4.00 |
| Qnt = or > 100 bushels in your own packaging | $5.50 | $3.50 | $3.00 |
* contact us for packaging / label requirements if using your own packaging
* prices subject to change
Your every sip of pure and local heirloom apple juice directly supports our joint missions to preserve Colorado’s fruit growing heritage and restore an orchard culture and economy to the southwestern region.
We work to promote fruit tree preservation through mapping, identifying, grafting, planting, documenting and connecting local resources for preservation.
By providing mobile juicing services to area farmers, we help to build a market for previously un-harvested fruit in this very juice you drink.
Thank you for your support. Together we are the dedicated CORE keeping Colorado “Orchard County”.
Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project
Apple Core Project
Ingredients: Pasteurized, unfiltered apple juice
Processed and Packaged by: Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project
Instructions:
Pulp can naturally occur and may settle. Shake if desired.
Two month shelf life after opening.
Refrigerate after opening.
Keep box in pouring position once opened to prevent air from entering the bag.
DO NOT FREEZE
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