Since the 12th century, orchards were woven into the Scottish countryside. Apple trees filled the landscape from the Highlands to the Borders, growing fruit that fed communities and shaped the land. But over the decades, a combination of devastating frosts, years of neglect, and the rise of cheap imports from Eastern Europe slowly stripped them away. An entire industry — and a beloved part of Scotland's natural heritage — quietly disappeared.

We started Lost Orchards to change that.

Founded at East Adamston Farm near Dundee, Lost Orchards was born from a simple but powerful moment: Andrew Husband watching his 80-year-old father press apples for juice on an old wooden press. That was the penny drop. Andrew had been growing apples since 2012, and with business partner Angus Morrison, the vision crystallised — use the farm's incredible fruit to make a premium Scottish cider, and use every bottle sold to replant what Scotland had lost.

East Adamston Farm has been in the Husband family for generations. It's one of Scotland's most established fruit farms — supplying blackcurrants for Ribena, growing blueberries, and now producing the apples that go into every bottle of Lost Orchards Cider.

We harvest our apples at their peak ripeness and press them in our on-site cidery within 24 hours. No shortcuts. No compromises. The result is a cider that genuinely tastes like where it comes from — crisp, fresh, and unmistakably Scottish.

For the berry variants, we look no further than our neighbours. For generations, fruit has been grown along the banks of the River Tay, and we've built relationships with the growers around us to source the strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries that make our fruit ciders what they are.