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APPLE DAY EVENTS ARE IN ABUNDANCE THIS OCTOBER
National Apple Day is celebrated on the 21st October and was founded by the London charity Common Ground in 1990. The charity wanted to raise awareness of the alarming rate at which orchards were disappearing, along with the local varieties, the recipes, the songs, stories, pruning and wassailing.
www.commonground.org.uk
14th October
Cockington Apple day is a popular food and crafts festival which will celebrate its 20th year on 14th October. Showcasing the best in local foods, handmade crafts, apple varieties and ciders of course! Apple Day is one of Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust's biggest fundraising events and all monies raised are ploughed back into conservation.
www.englishriviera.co.uk
27th October
Porlock Apple day 10am-4pm You will be able to see an ancient cider press in action and enjoy apple juicing, buy apple products and produce and watch craft demonstrations. There will also be a tasty BBQ serving special Porlock Apple & Pork sausages.
www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk
COMMUNITY APPLE PROJECT
KILLERTON CIDER AND APPLE WEEKEND
Cornish Orchards have launched a community apple project, inviting local groups and organisations to join them in collecting Cornish apples. They will buy the apples and turn them in to cider! Visit
cornishorchards.co.uk for more details
27th October
Coleridge Cottage - Apple day Why not celebrate Apple Day at Coleridge Cottage, the former garden of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Activities include apple pressing, juicing and games such as apple bobbing and 'Pin the Maggot on the Apple'. Charlton Orchards will be there with their mouth-watering produce and ingenious apple identification.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/coleridge-cottage
On the 20th and 21st October, Killerton National Trust Estate near Exeter is hosting a two day National Apple Day celebration. The estate has over 50 acres of traditional orchards growing nearly 100 varieties of old English apple. In autumn staff, volunteers and local schools pitch in to help harvest and press the apples. Last year, they produced over 5,500 litres of cider and the profits from the sale of the cider are invested back into conserving Killerton’s landscape and historic buildings. There will be lots of have-a-go activities including the traditional craft of barrel-making, woodturning using Killerton’s apple wood and William Tell archery. For more details about the weekend visit
nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton
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CELEBRATING FOOD ON FILM AND FOOD ON THE PLATE
SCREEN Bites, the Dorset-based food and film festival, returns this month with a programme that combines some of the finest food and drink from Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset, with outstanding films from around the world. This year’s festival runs from 4th October to 3rd November and
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features several new films and many new producers, joining regular farm shops, farmers and other food businesses at the mini farmers markets, including Primrose’s Kitchen, Angel Cottage Organics and the Watercress Company. For more information visit
www.screenbites.co.uk
RUTH HODDINOTT
WWW.RHS.ORG.UK
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