Ribena - fruit juice soft drinks.

With the help of The Wildlife Trusts, hundreds of bird boxes have been put up around the Ribena farms, making homes for thousands of little birds.

This means that we can do lots of bird spotting on our farms! But you don’t need a farm to do some bird spotting of your own. A garden or a local park is a great place to look out for a variety of birds.

The Great Tit lives in gardens and woodlands, eats seeds and fruit, and is identifiable by its green and yellow back, black head and white cheeks.

Although associated with Christmas, Robins can be seen all year round in gardens, parks and hedgerows. Their red breast makes them easy to spot, and they like to eat worms, seeds, berries and insects.

To find out more about the types of birds in the UK and how to spot them, you can visit The Wildlife Trusts’ website.

Image credits: Amy Lewis (Great Tit) and Steve Waterhouse (Robin)

When drinking a glass of Ribena squash, have you ever wondered who grows the British blackcurrants that go into your bottle?

Well, we want to let you know a little more about the friendly growers who help make Ribena drinks so juicy.

The farms are run by a handful of British growers who are really passionate about blackcurrants. We’ve been working with many of the growers’ families for generations and much of their expertise has been passed down to them from their parents and grandparents – it really is a family business.

New blackcurrant bushes are planted each year, but it takes about three years for the bushes to start growing berries and up to eight years before the blackcurrant bushes are at their peak for harvesting – so a lot of care and patience is needed.

And it doesn’t take long for the blackcurrants to be made into juice – most of them are squashed within 24 hours of picking;  that’s pretty fast work!

When drinking a glass of Ribena squash, have you ever wondered who grows the British blackcurrants that go into your bottle?

Well, we want to let you know a little more about the friendly growers who help make Ribena drinks so juicy.

The farms are run by a handful of British growers who are really passionate about blackcurrants. We’ve been working with many of the growers’ families for generations and much of their expertise has been passed down to them from their parents and grandparents – it really is a family business.

New blackcurrant bushes are planted each year, but it takes about three years for the bushes to start growing berries and up to eight years before the blackcurrant bushes are at their peak for harvesting – so a lot of care and patience is needed.

And it doesn’t take long for the blackcurrants to be made into juice – most of them are squashed within 24 hours of picking;  that’s pretty fast work!