On 10 Oct, 20:02, "someone" wrote:
A nice orchard with about 40 apple trees is about to be destroyed, along
with the farmhouse, in order to build a giant warehouse a mile or so from
us. The (ex-)owner has said we can gather the apples, which we are doing for
our local cider-making project.

BUT - is there any way of saving these trees, short of taking cuttings from
them to graft? *Someone proposed digging them up and moving them to another
site, but they're probably too old.

Any opinion welcomed on what to do now. *It's all so sad.

someone

Moving established trees, can be done but it takes several years of
preparation. So the answer is, no.
What you should do in the future is buy English apples when available
not these foreign ones from the ends of the Earth.