IT ALL STARTED WITH A BOOK…

…and a row of apple trees. Newly home from university, Adam Tildsley discovered that his dad, Michael, had replaced some old rose bushes in the family garden with apple trees. 

Looking for something to fill his time (not a problem these days with both a growing family and a growing business!) he picked up his mum’s battered copy of Home Made Wines, Syrups and Cordials, published by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1954, and costing a handsome ‘Four Shillings and Sixpence’. 

He began making cordials and apple juice, which he sold from an honesty box outside the house. From that small seed, Tree Top Press has grown into a flourishing no-dig market garden, cider press and farm shop with the focus now on nature recovery and habitat creation within our area of the beautiful North York Moors.