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 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.
MORP can service a 60 mile radius from Dolores, Colorado. One hundred bushel minimum in Montezuma County to fire up the press; 400 bushel minimum elsewhere. You are welcome to coordinate with others to reach these start up minimums. For distances greater than 60 miles or to discuss HACCP approval, please contact us: morporchard@gmail.com.
When harvesting or Sourcing your Fruit
Thank you for your cooperation to provide a safe and quality product!
- 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.
- For apples and pears please provide ripe but firm fruit (not mushy or over ripe) to avoid lower yield and higher pectin.
- For stone fruits and berries please provide soft, ripe fruit for best yield.
- For all fruits please provide well sorted, clean, non moldy fruits. If we run into unexpected quality issues while processing we will charge an additional fee of 50 cents per box/pouch/gallon for added culling time – especially if we have to stop the press and change out the bath water. If we determine no corrective action can be taken we will reject your fruit entirely.
Juicing prices~ you provide the fruit
Minimum required quantity is 20 bushels per customer. 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. Want juice but you do not have the fruit? WHERE TO PURCHASE pasteurized juice.
- Pasteurized juice: See prices* in table below. If using your own packaging, including own label, contact us for design and packaging requirements before ordering supplies.
- Non pasteurized juice pressed into own totes/tanks: $2 per gallon for apple; $3 per gallon all other fruits.
*50 cent travel fee per gallon or bag/pouch when traveling outside of Montezuma County
*50 cent per bag/pouch/gallon fee for poor quality fruit that requires a high degree of culling that slows processing time
Packaged Juice – pasteurized
| Pasteurized Juice Prices* | 1.5 Liter | 3 Liter | 5 Liter |
| Apple 🍎 in MORP shelf ready packaging | $5.00 | $6.00 | N/A |
| Apple 🍎 in your own pre labeled packaging | $3.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 |
| Stone Fruit, Berry/Grape, or Pear 🍒 🍑 🍇 🍐 in MORP shelf ready packaging | $7.00 | $10.00 | N/A |
| Stone Fruit, Berry/Grape, or Pear 🍒 🍑 🍇 🍐 in your own pre labeled packaging | $5.00 | $8.00 | N/A |
| Please review additional fees below and reach out if you need more info.* |
* 50 cent fee per bag/pouch when we are asked to blend different fruit types and/or keep your varieties of same kind of fruit separate per same batch run
* 50 cent per bag/pouch fee for poor quality fruit that requires a high degree of culling that slows processing time
* 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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