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The Folk of Gloucester

The Folk of Gloucester 99 -101 Westgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Gloucester Civic Trust will be hosting the Annual Apple day on Saturday 19th of October 2019 from 10am to 4pm at the Folk of Gloucester. FREE Entry to ALL!! A Celebration of Gloucestershire Apples and Cider Making will see Rosie the Cider horse aged 3 years is coming for the first time this year to […]

Appleby Edibles apple day

Boroughgate Appleby

Apple Juicing in the Market Square all day, with North Cumbria Orchards Group giving advice on orchards and apples in Cumbria. Also a mini Film Festival from Remote Cinema around themes of Sustainability.

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National Apple Festival at Brogdale

Brogdale Farm Brogdale Lane, Faversham, Kent

Come to the National Apple Festival and celebrate the 2200 apple varieties in the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale. Enjoy a breathtaking and educational apple display with hundreds of apple varieties. Learn all about apples, with varieties dating from 450AD, Tudor and Victorian apples, as well as apples from all over the world. You’ll see […]

National Botanic Gardens of Wales apple weekend

National Botanic Garden Wars Llanarthne

Saturday and Sunday 19th – 20th October 10:00 – 18:00 Apple Weekend Paul Davis (Dolau-hirion Fruit Trees) attends with a display of his apples and also brings pot grown trees along for purchase.

Shaugh Prior Apple Day

Shaugh Prior Recreation Hall Shaugh Prior

I am delighted to announce that Newnham Solar Community will sponsor this year's event allowing us to give Free Entry for all, Free pasty (provided by Ginsters) and free fruit juice (provided by Sainsbury's) for all primary school children and Certificates for all children who enter the Art Competition (details via the village school). We […]

Bateman’s Apple Day

Bateman's Bateman's Lane, Burwash, Etchingham , United Kingdom

Join us at Bateman's for our amazing apple day with family fun, games to play and you can even try your hand at some orchard crafts. Saturday 19 October, 11am - 4pm. Celebrate the harvest As summer draws to a close, the fruits and vegetables are ripening fast. Come along on Saturday 19 October and explore […]

Leominster Apple Fair

Leominster Priory Church Church Street, Leominster

At The Priory, Leominster. 11:00–16:00. Parking nearby in Bridge Street Car Park. Various stalls, apple display and ID by MAN. Details from Felicity Norman, Tel. 01568–780886.  If you love apples, this fair is a must visit. We will be selling our handmade soaps and shampoo bars in this event. Palm oil free. Cruelty free. Vegan […]

Apple Day at Woodside Link Community Orchard

Woodside Link community orchard off Wheatfield Road beside the doctors surgery, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire

Have a go at apple pressing (bring your own apples if you like and a container for the juice) & apple bobbing. Get some inspiration for apple-based desserts from recipes donated by the community. Learn how to prune young fruit trees and see how you can get involved in the community orchard throughout the year. […]

Cambridge University Botanic Gardens Apple Day, EEAOP

University Botanic Gardens 1 Brookside, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Make sure the first half-term Sunday is free for the region’s biggest Apple Day. A family favourite and chance to celebrate all things apple: * Apple tasting: over 2 dozen delicious, locally-grown heritage varieties to try and buy * Apple identification: bring 2-3 apples with leaf and stalk for our apple experts from East of […]

Bromham Mill Apple Day

Bromham Mill Bridge End, Bromham, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

The ever popular Apple Day returns to Bromham Mill on Sunday 20th October. There will be a range of fun and traditional activities to celebrate all things apple related. On site there will be a vast selection of food and drink on offer and lots of fun-filled activities for the whole family to enjoy. We […]

Roots and Shoots Apple Day

Walnut Tree Walk Lambeth, SE11

  Get ready for this year's Apple Day at Roots and Shoots. Celebrating 20 years of fun packed activities for all ages, brilliant crafts and art stalls as well as food and cakes. But most important of all, viewing over 100 varieties of apples from the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale Farm, Kent and from […]

St Ann’s Community Orchard apple day

St. Ann's Allotments Woodborough Road, Hungerhill Road or Ransom Road, Nottingham

Did you know St Ann's Allotments have over 2000 fruit trees? Did you know we have had an annual apple day at the Community Orchard for over 10 years? Join us in our unique heritage gardens, to explore and enjoy all things apple'y! There will be loads of family activities, soup, apple pressing (mmm juice) […]

Frome Community Orchard Apple Day

Old Showfield Frome

Visit Frome’s community orchard and celebrate Apple Day and all things applely with: 🍏 Tours of the orchard 🍏 Apple pressing (bring any surplus apples you have to give them a squish) 🍏Apple crafts 🍏 Gurning competition for those that know how to use their face to best effect 🍏 Face painting 🍏 Outdoor gym […]

Apple Day in the Whipsnade Jubilee Orchard

Whipsnade Jubilee Orchard (next to Whipsnade Tree Cathedral) Whipsnade, Dunstable

Have a go at apple pressing (bring your own apples if you like and a container for the juice) & apple bobbing. Try some delicious apple-based desserts made by volunteers. Learn how to prune young fruit trees and see how you can get involved in the community orchard throughout the year. Parking available on the […]

Eastbrookend Apple Day Celebration

The Millennium Centre and Eastbrookend Country Park The Chase, Dagenham, Essex

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away..." We all know apples are great for our health, and delicious too! Come join us, at the time of the apple harvest, to celebrate 'Apple Day' - an Autumn festival for all the family. There will be a range of family-friendly activities taking place including Apple-bobbing, Juicing, […]

Apple pressing at Sidmouth

The Knapp Local Nature Reserve Station Road, Sidmouth, Devon

Enjoy your own delicious apple juice! Bring a flask and join the Wild East Devon rangers at Knapp Local Nature Reserve for a morning of harvesting in the orchard. Celebrate the harvest with a glass of delicious apple juice which has been picked and pressed at The Knapp orchard... truly as fresh as it gets! Why not bring […]

Clovelly Apple Day

Clovelly Visitor Centre

It is Apple Season – so we are holding our Fourth Apple Day with lots of lovely apple crafts and activities.  On arrival at Clovelly you will see apple pressing by Gatcombe valley outside the Visitor Centre, so please do bring a bag of apples.  Watch them being pressed and taste the fresh juice.  Or […]

Barrington Court Apple Weekend

Barrington Court Barrington, Ilminster, United Kingdom

Our celebration of all things apple here at Barrington Court! This fun and lively weekend is for everyone, with much of the activity centered around our orchards and pressing barn. Barrington Court is famous for consistently producing award-winning cider and apple juice, so join us for a day of picking, pressing, identifying and tasting! With […]

Wildside Activity Centre Apple Day

Wildside Activity Centre Hordern Road, Wolverhampton

Join us at Wildside as we celebrate ‘Apple Day’ on Saturday 26th October from 11am – 1pm. Bring along your apples and help us turn them into apple juice for everyone to sample. There will be apple related games and crafts, cooking, and refreshments too.  Performance from Sedgley Morris Men Apple expert Paul Hand offering […]

South Molton Apple Fair

Pannier Market Broad St, South Molton, Devon, United Kingdom

Keeping the core emphasis on apples, orchards and wildlife, this is a popular, free, family event, with apples and pears on display and for sale, including many unusual local varieties. The Orchards Live Cider, Apple and Craft competition and Produce Show is free for all to enter (in advance). Juices and ciders for sale and […]

Huntingfield Apple Day

Huntingfield Community Orchard Community Hall HUB, Brick Kiln Lane, Huntingfield, Haleford, Suffolk, United Kingdom

      The Huntingfield Apple Day will include Apple and apple juice tasting Apple pressing Apple peeling races Cooking competitions Tombola Tours of the orchard Raffle and refreshments   Fruit display and identification: A representative from Orchards East will be attending with a display of traditional Suffolk fruits and will also be on hand […]

Northern Fruit Group Apple Display at RHS Harlow Carr

RHS Garden Harlow Carr Crag Lane, Beckwithshaw, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The Northern Fruit Group will be on hand to offer expert advice on fruit growing and identification, so bring your homegrown apples along if you’re not sure which variety they are, we will be able to let you know.

Cider and Juice-making course

High Bickington High Bickington , Umberleigh, United Kingdom

One of Orchards Live's longest-running and most popular courses, aimed at those keen to have a go at cider & juice production at home. The day will cover equipment and techniques for juicing, production and storage of cider & juice, combining both theory and practice, with Dave Dann as the speaker. Non-Members: £14.00 Members: £12.00 Join […]

Chepstow Apple Day

Drill Hall Lower Church St, Chepstow

Chepstow apple day is a great event celebrating everything connected with the humble apple! Marcher Apple Network apple IDs, display, apple juice, cider and perry tasting. Bring your own apples for pressing juice, and start a traditional cider. The day is organised by Transition Chepstow in association with the Chepstow Town Council, usually around the […]

Winter pruning workshop for fruit trees

East Malling Research New Road, East Malling, Kent

These largely practical workshops for winter pruning of fruit trees and courses for the amateur gardener will concentrate mainly on top fruit varieties such as apples, pears, plums and cherries. You will find out how to make the most of your garden and how you can produce a good crop of juicy fruit in a […]

Planning & Planting a Small Orchard

Stanmer Park Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

This course covers the process of initial orchard planning, along with the selection and planting of fruit trees. There will also be discussions and advice on community aspects of the subject matter. 9.30am-5pm Stanmer Park, Brighton BN1 9PZ Cost: £35-£175 (depending on income) Course tutors: Bryn Thomas, Peter May See website for full details. ***NOTE […]

Poole Farm Big Climate Fightback

Derriford Community Park Plymouth, Cornwall

Poole Farm/Derriford Community Park are excited to be joining thousands of people across the country taking part in The Woodland Trust's Big Climate Fightback Campaign! We would really appreciate it if you are able to share this with your network and we would love to see you there.   We will be running a tree planting […]

Restorative pruning in old orchards

Jeacock's Orchard Cow Lane, Tring

7 December 2019 – Jeacock’s Orchard, Cow Lane, Tring, HP23 5NS. 1000-1530. Tutor Anna Baldwin This one-day workshop is aimed at those with an interest in caring for older fruit trees. The emphasis will be on the pruning and care of aged apple trees which have already received some restorative pruning.  This workshop is ideal […]

Restorative Pruning Course

Meshaw , United Kingdom

Old, overgrown, neglected or unproductive trees, or those producing small unhealthy fruit can be improved with careful pruning. Overgrown trees are also at risk of damage in high winds. If you’d like your old trees to be in better condition, then this course is for you - the ever-popular and most longstanding of the OL […]

Acorn Bank – Winter Pruning Workshop

Acorn Bank Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Join our Orchard team for a day to learn how and why we prune fruit trees in Winter The day will include an introductory talk and tour of the Orchard, followed by expert tuition in pruning and an opportunity to get hands-on with helping to prune Acorn Bank’s apple collection under the supervision of our […]

TRAINING COURSE: PRUNING #1

27 Walton Avenue Twyford, Adderbury, Oxfordshire

  Saturday 11-Jan-20, from 10.30am to 4.00pm (including lunchtime) Join MSOG’s Andy Howard for a day’s training course, to learn the theory, skills and practice of Winter Pruning for fruit trees such as apple and pear. Discover the different methods and techniques used to shape fruit trees, control their size and influence their productivity. Find […]

WASSAIL AT THE ORCHARD: DONKEY LANE COMMUNITY ORCHARD

Donkey Lane community orchard Chinnor, Oxford

Saturday 11-Jan-20, from 2.00PM to 4.00pm (2 hours) Donkey Lane Community Orchard, off Keens Lane, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, OX39 4PF Bring the family and join Greening Chinnor for their first Wassail at the historic Donkey Lane Community Orchard. This delightful 19th century orchard is being restored for community use, education and enjoyment. Help wish good health […]

WASSAILING EVENT – Friends of Radford Woods

Radford Woods White Lady Road, Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Wassailing event at the Orchard and Bird Hide, White Lady Road, Plymstock starting at 2pm until 4pm. Tree Blessing with Toast, A History of Wassailling Talk, Green Man Wassailing Procession “Old Town 12” Morris Dancers. Bring along torches, lamps, some form of instrument such as a tambourine, recorder or two sticks which can be knocked […]

Berry Hill Community Orchard Wassail

Berry Hill Berry Hill, Gloucestershire

Friday 17 January 2020 at 4pm at the orchard. Free community event. We will be joined by "Wild Oats" Morris dancers at The Globe Inn for dancing, also cheese and bread. Please bring along any percussion instruments and battery torches. Spiced cider donated by Westons Cider.

Horfield Organic Community Orchard (HOCO) Wassail

Horfield Organic Community Orchard Bristol

All are welcome to Wassail. Toast the orchard for a fruitful harvest. Bring ribbons, clouties & shining things to dress the trees. Make merry with Pigsty Morris. Bristol Folk Singers raise their voices. Homemade cakes and mulled Orchard juice for sale. Apple trees for sale. To find the Orchard (nearest postcode BS7 8JP) walk down […]

TRAINING COURSE: GRAFTING

27 Walton Avenue Twyford, Adderbury, Oxfordshire

Activities: Join MSOG’s Andy Howard for a hands-on training course to learn the theory, skills and practice of creating new fruit trees via grafting. Find out about the different methods and techniques. Practice these to create two new fruit trees to take home, using your choice of rootstocks and scionwood from Andy’s extensive collection of […]

WOUGHTON WINTER WASSAIL

Woughton Orchards Woughton on the Green, off Newport Road, Milton Keynes

Activities: Bring the family and join us for our traditional New Year celebration, to wish good health for the orchards, wealth for the local community and a bountiful fruit harvest for 2020. Bring your musical instruments, pans and spoons, whistles or anything noisy! Help us make a jolly din to chase away pesky spirits as […]

Wassail at Saltram House

Saltram House Saltram House Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Join the ranger team in the ancient tradition of wassailing. Help bless the next crop of apples. All details can be found on the website and tickets have to be booked online.    

Pilley Bridge Nature Reserve Wassail

Pilley Bridge Nature Reserve Pilley, Gloucestershire

Pilley Bridge Nature Reserve Wassail Monday 27 January 2020 at about 6pm. Woodcraft Folk leaders. There should be hot drinks, lanterns and lots of noise!

Wassail at Hartpury Orchard Centre

Hartpury Orchard Centre Hartpury Heritage Trust, The Orchard Centre, Blackwell’s End, Hartpury, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Special gathering of pipe, tabor, hurdy-gurdy and other players (as part of The Taborers Society weekend). Special thanks to Rob and Gillian Guest for this music. A Traditional Winter Festival. Hot Food Bar: cider and perry. Wrap up warm, bring a torch, and come and enjoy an evening with the traditional customs of toasting the […]

Winter Pruning Course 2

Feldon Forest Farm Frankton, Rugby, Warks

Join Andy Howard, experienced fruit tree pruner and owner of the Heritage Fruit Tree Company, for a day’s training course to learn the theory and practice of winter pruning on site in Warwickshire. This Course will take place at George Browning: Feldon Forest Farm, at Frankton, Rugby, Warks, CV23 9PD. George has an orchard with […]

Pruning workshop at Days Cottage Orchard Centre

Days Cottage Orchard Centre Day's Cottage, Upton Lane, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Pruning workshop. Thursday 6 February 2020 10.00am-1.00pm Please book with Dave/Helen at Days Cottage directly. http://dayscottage.co.uk/courses

Pruning workshop at Days Cottage Orchard Centre

Days Cottage Orchard Centre Day's Cottage, Upton Lane, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Pruning workshop. Sunday 9 February 2020 10.00am-1.00pm Please book with Dave/Helen at Days Cottage directly. http://dayscottage.co.uk/courses

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Afternoon At The Orchard

Woughton Orchards Woughton on the Green, off Newport Road, Milton Keynes

Woughton Orchards, off Newport Road, Woughton on the Green, Milton Keynes, MK6 3BD Join us for various maintenance activities, picnics, and general outdoors enjoyment in the orchards. Bring a picnic. Also bring work gloves, pruning shears and pruning saws if you have them. FREE! Donations welcomed towards refreshments Contact: Email Claire at: MSOGChairman@yahoo.com to find […]

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APPLE GRAFTING COURSE/WORKSHOP

Winterbourne Medieval Barn Church Lane, Winterbourne

Come and learn how to graft apple trees on this course under the tuition of Ben Raskin, then try and graft your own to take home. Full Details at www.winterbournebarn.org.uk Please contact Robert Beetham for booking on 01179574921 or robert.beetham@phonecoop.coop

Apple Pruning Lydfford Gorge National Trust

Lydford Gorge Lydford, near Tavistock, Devon

Hands on morning in the orchard learning the art of pruning apple trees with the ranger team. Part theory, part practical. Tools provided. Booking essential. This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue. Email:  lydfordgorge@nationaltrust.org.uk  

Barton House Orchard

Barton House Orchard Barton Lane, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Spring maintenance with the Cotswold Tree Wardens. Tuesday 17 March 2020. Contact: twgcotswold@yahoo.co.uk. http://www.cotswoldtreewardengroup.org.uk/

Grafting workshop at Days Cottage Orchard Centre

Days Cottage Orchard Centre Day's Cottage, Upton Lane, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Grafting workshop. Thursday 19 March 2020 10.00am-1.00pm Please book with Dave/Helen at Days Cottage directly. http://dayscottage.co.uk/courses

SPRING BLOSSOM PICNIC: WOUGHTON ORCHARDS

Woughton Orchards Woughton on the Green, off Newport Road, Milton Keynes

Saturday 25-Apr-20, from 2.00pm onwards, for as long as you want! Venue: Woughton Orchards, off Newport Road, Woughton on the Green, Milton Keynes, MK6 3BD Pack a picnic, spread out a blanket in the Old Cider Orchard and enjoy a lazy lunch outdoors, under the apple blossom. Throw a Frisbee, bob an apple, read a […]

Pruning Plums and Related Species

Meshaw , United Kingdom

We will be running a plum and related fruits pruning course on Saturday 6th June near Meshaw. We expect there are many of you who have not dared tackle your crowded and tangled plum trees, for fear of doing the wrong thing! Here is your chance to get it right. Location: Near Meshaw Members £6 […]

Burton Village Farmers Market – apple pressing

Gladstone Village Hall The Village, Burton, Neston, Cheshire

Wirral Pomona Society will be at the market with their press, so bring your apples and pears along, and containers or bottles, and take home your own freshly pressed juice. Support local farmers and award-winning artisan food producers at the market.   Free entry and parking

Alternative Apple Day at Burghley House

Burghley House Walled Garden Peterborough, Stamford

EVENT CANCELLED    The Burghley House Preservation Trust have kindly agreed to host Stamford Community Orchard Group's Alternative Apple Day. Walled garden tours The history of the walled garden The local varieties of apples Botanical illustrations of local fruit trees Some tips and techniques of fruit tree management Sales of SCOG cards and publications   This will be […]

Fulham Palace Apple Day Celebration

Fulham Palace Bishop’s Avenue, Fulham, London

Join us in our Walled Garden for our Apple Day Celebration on Sunday, 4th October from 11am to 3pm!   Celebrate the orchard at our annual apple day celebration! We have something for all ages: live folk music, beekeeping, green woodworking, garden tours, children’s activities, food & crafts market....rain or shine. We are ensuring that the […]

Ely Apple Day

Oliver Cromwell's House 29 St Mary's St, Ely

Outside Oliver Cromwell's House, Ely, on Saturday October 17th 2020, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm, visit and celebrate 20 years of Apple Day! Come and browse our gift shop (there may be a hidden apple inside) and meet Watergull Orchards selling apples and apple juice. Alongside all the fun, we've our longest peel competition, guess […]

Community Orchard Maintenance Workshop (including pruning) – new date

Museum of East Anglian Life Iliffe Way, Stowmarket IP14 1DL

This one day workshop is aimed at people who care for community orchards, especially those planted in the last 5 years. The emphasis will be on pruning and care of apple trees but can be applied to pear trees too. There will also be a focus on how to protect the trees and management of […]

Community Orchard Pruning Workshop (including formative pruning of young trees) – new date

Museum of East Anglian Life Iliffe Way, Stowmarket IP14 1DL

This one day workshop is aimed at people who care for community orchards which have been planted in the last three years and require initial pruning.  The emphasis will be on the pruning and care of apple trees but can be applied to pear trees too. Formative pruning of new trees will also be demonstrated. […]

Stories in the Orchard – Rosevale Park, Stockport

Rosevale Park Heald Green, Cheadle, Stockport

You bring the picnic, we’ll bring the entertainment, all while the grown-ups crack on with some wider park green-space restoration works. ABOUT THIS EVENT Come down to Rose Vale Park, Heald Green for an afternoon picnic and storytelling with Susie Oldfield. Hosted by The Orchard Project. Or get stuck in with The Friends of Rosevale […]

Apple pressing at the Chiswick Flower Market

Old Market Place Chiswick High Road, London

Please come along to help us press our local fruit harvest. If you have surplus apples or pears, please bring them along. Come and help chop, scrat and press our apples, and have some free juice on us.    

Gloucestershire Orchard Trust Longney Orchard open day

Longney Orchards Longney, Gloucester , United Kingdom

Open to all. We welcome everyone, especially Longney locals, Longney schoolchildren and GOT members/families and volunteers. Browse the progress made with the mature and young orchards of Gloucestershire varieties and display boards. Juice, cider and perry for sale! BBQ but bring a picnic lunch and something to sit on (we have limited benches and chairs), […]

Brimstage Hall Orchard Heritage Open Day

Brimstage Road Brimstage, Wirral, Merseyside

The Orchard, Brimstage Hall, Brimstage Road, Wirral, Merseyside, CH63 6JA A guided walk round a traditional orchard, pick/taste heritage varieties of apple, pear and plum. Visitors can bring their own apples to crush in a reconstructed 18th century cider press, make juice or cider to take away. Information & advice given about planting, tree care, […]

Painswick Feast

Painswick Rococo Gardens Painswick Rococo Gardens, Painswick, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Painswick Apple Day is taking place on 19th September as part of the Painswick Feast Day, From 11am to 4pm but apple pressing will probably stop around 2.45 for the Clypping parade and service. Full details are on their website here: http://www.painswickfeast.org/

Hartpury Perry Pear Display

Hartpury Orchard Centre Hartpury Heritage Trust, The Orchard Centre, Blackwell’s End, Hartpury, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

HARTPURY ORCHARD CENTRE Home of the National Perry Pear Collection Blackwell’s End GL19 3DB   PERRY PEAR DISPLAY hopefully about 80 varieties depending on the crop! PLOUGHMANS + TEAS 12noon – 5pm Perry and cider for sale, books, leaflets, and orchard themed gifts. Come and enjoy an autumn afternoon in the countryside, with wonderful views. […]

Malvern Autumn Show

Three Counties Showground Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

Orchard and Hopyard Pavilion GOT stand will have books and juice for sale. Jim Chapman will have his usual Hartpury Orchard Centre stand with perry pear display and perry pear identification service (small fee please). All in the wonderful Orchard and Hopyard Pavilion.

Apple & Honey Weekend – Day 1

Buckingham Garden Centre Tingewick Rd, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Apple identification and expert fruit advice with top RHS fruit judge and grower Gerry Edwards. We will feature a display of apple and crab apples, plus apples trees and fruits for sale. We’ll be joined by members of the Mid-Shire Orchard Group who will be demonstrating apple pressing and chatting about community orchards local to […]

Audley End Apple Festival

Audley End House and Gardens Off London Road, Saffron Walden, Essex, United Kingdom

Celebrate all things apple at Audley End. With over 150 varieties of delicious apples in our organic kitchen garden, our expert gardeners will be on hand to share top tips, tours and demonstrations for green fingered fans. All this and music playing traditional tunes throughout the weekend makes this event the apple of everyone’s eye!

Potton Apple Day

St. Mary’s Church Hall & playing field Hatley Road, Potton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Free hands-on community event celebrating apples and orchards and the part they play in our heritage and culture. Come and help us chop the apples to press into delicious fresh juice. If you have a glut, bring your spare apples to the Apple Amnesty and swap them for a glass of juice. Live music will […]

Ordsall Hall’s Orchard Day

Ordsall Hall 322 Ordsall Lane, Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Join us for a celebration of apples, pears, medlars , quinces and other orchard fruit in the gardens of the beautiful Grade 1 listed Ordsall Hall.   Event contact: horticulture@scll.co.uk  

Southend Apple Day, St Laurence Orchard

St Laurence Orchard, Eastwoodbury Lane (at the junction with St. Laurence Way),, Southend-on-Sea

Celebrating 100 years of St Laurence Orchard, which was planted by soldiers returning from WWI, we will be enjoying apple picking and pressing, music, BBQ, cakes, stalls, orchard tours, interactive art and much more. Suitable for all the family, Southend Apple Day is organised by local mental health and wellbeing Trust Links, who maintain the […]

RV Roger, Pickering, Apple Weekend

The Plant Centre Malton Road, Pickering

Display of hundreds of fruit varieties Fruit tasting and purchase Fruit trees can be ordered for delivery/collection from mid-November onwards Pruning demonstrations on request Apple display extends pretty much through to the end of the year. Advice and guidance on fruit trees and orchard planting available 7 days a week.   Free entry

The Friends of Kenworthy Orchard

Kenworthy community orchard

Come and meet The Friends of Kenworthy Orchard and The Orchard Project team. Juice some apples on our fantastical machine PedalPedalSquishSquish and be entertained with Apple Themed Stories with professional storyteller Susie Oldfield. Free entry

TadApple Day

The Barn at The Manor Farm Centre St Joseph's Street, Tadcaster

TadApple Day is on Sunday October 17th 10am to 3pm at The Barn on St Joseph’s Street, Tadcaster (opposite the John Smith’s Brewery gates) LS24 9HA It is a free event, run by local volunteers from Tadcrafters CIC to encourage community co-operation and for people to bring along lots of apples to turn into them […]

Days Cottage Orchard and Rural Skills Centre apple day

Days Cottage Orchard & Rural Skills Centre Upton Lane, Brookthorpe, Gloucester

Covid restrictions permitting, Dave Kaspar and Helen Brent-Smith hope to have their usual Apple Day on Sunday 17th October 2021. Times tbc. www.dayscottage.co.uk or check the GOT website nearer the time. Normally (post pandemic), they run a rolling programme of Pruning, Grafting and Bud-Grafting workshops at their Orchard & Rural Skills Centre at Brookthorpe, south […]

The Friends of Platt Fields Park – Apple Day

Platt Fields Park Fallowfield, Manchester

Come and meet The Friends of Platt Fields Park and The Orchard Project team. Juice some apples on our fantastical machine PedalPedalSquishSquish and be entertained with Apple Themed Stories with professional storyteller Susie Oldfield.

Apple Day – Museum of East Anglian Life

Museum of East Anglian Life Iliffe Way, Stowmarket IP14 1DL

How many ways can an apple nourish us?  Join us and find out on October 23rd as the museum celebrates Apple Day 2021!   We’ll be running an entire day of fun crafts, tours, and activities for visitors of all ages! You’ll be able to see live demonstrations of our apple press, and taste-test a tantalising variety of apples and freshly-squeezed juice. […]

Margam Country Park Apple Day

Margam Country Park Margam, Port Talbot

Margam Park's Apple Day where TOP will be demonstrating juice-making with our brand new kit. We’ll be getting the public involved in making juice and will offer tastings. Plus we'll have a display of heritage apple varieties. Other activities on the day will include music and food plus family activities.

The Friends of Rose Vale Park

Rosevale Park Heald Green, Cheadle, Stockport

Come and meet The Friends of Rose Vale Park and The Orchard Project team. Juice some apples on our fantastical machine PedalPedalSquishSquish and be entertained with Apple Themed Stories with professional storyteller Susie Oldfield.

Winter Fruit Tree Grafting

Honeydale Farm Station Road, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

(Run in partnership with FarmEd) Fruit trees have been grafted for centuries around the world, yet the number of people with this skill in the UK is diminishing year after year. In this workshop, led by Orchard Architect and Nurseryman Andy Howard of the Heritage Fruit Tree Co., you will learn how to graft your own […]

Springtime Scionwood Swap

Buckingham Garden Centre Tingewick Rd, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Activities: Bring your scionwood to share and swap with others, or offer or acquire for a small donation. This event will feature hundreds of rare, local and heritage apple, pear, plum and cherry varieties. They can be grafted on the day (as a paid service) onto purchased rootstocks of choice, or be taken home for […]

Winter Pruning: Adderbury, Oxon OX17 3JY

Methodist Church Hall Chapel Lane, Adderbury, Oxon

Saturday 12th February 10.30- 4.00 Join MSOG’s Andy Howard for a day’s training course, to learn the theory, skills and practice of winter pruning for fruit trees such as apple and pear. Discover the different methods and techniques used to shape fruit trees, control their size and influence their productivity. Find out when and how to apply […]

Apple Grafting Workshop

Winterbourne Medieval Barn Church Lane, Winterbourne

Come and learn how to graft apple trees on this course under the tuition of Ben Raskin, a previous commercial fruit grower and an enthusiastic, effective and very knowledgeable teacher, now Head of Horticulture at The Soil Association. Please see this website for more details and to book. Cost £45, tea coffee and biscuits will […]

Winter Pruning, Warwickshire

Feldon Forest Farm Frankton, Rugby, Warks

Join MSOG’s Andy Howard for a day’s training course, to learn the theory, skills and practice of winter pruning for fruit trees such as apple, pear, quince and medlar. Discover the different methods and techniques used to shape fruit trees, control their size and influence their productivity. Find out when and how to apply these […]

Winter Pruning

Honeydale Farm Station Road, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

Join FarmED's Orchard Designer Andy Howard to learn the theory, skills and practice of winter pruning for fruit trees such as apple and pear. On this workshop you'll discover the different methods and techniques used to shape fruit trees, control their size and influence their productivity. You'll also find out when and how to apply […]

Hidden Herefordshire – the History and Management of Traditional Orchards

Awnell's Farm Much Markle, Herefordshire

The Countryside Restoration Trust are welcoming Hidden Herefordshire to their Orchards at Awnell’s Farm as a location for a morning looking at all aspects of Traditional Orchards. Local orchard enthusiast James Bisset will lead you through a walk and talk on the history and management of Orchards and why this is such an important habitat. […]

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Orchard Design Course

Brogdale Farm Brogdale Lane, Faversham, Kent

Orchard Design Course This one-day orchard design course is for anyone thinking of establishing an orchard or becoming involved in a community orchard project. You will learn about site assessment and rootstocks, planting patterns and spacing, the number and choice of fruit tree varieties, orchard layout and projected yield. The day includes a tour of […]

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Brogdale Farm Brogdale Lane, Faversham, Kent

Summer Pruning – half day  14th & 21st July This half day summer pruning course will introduce you to pruning apple and plum trees and cover basic techniques and methods to start you pruning at home. The course mainly focuses on trained trees including espaliers, cordons and fans. The course is largely practical and outside […]

Summer Pruning

27 Walton Avenue Twyford, Adderbury, Oxfordshire

Join MSOG’s Andy Howard for a day’s training course, to learn the theory, skills and practice of summer pruning for fruit trees including apple, pear, quince, medlar, plum, gages, damsons and cherries.  How summer pruning maximises your fruit growth. Why we summer prune cordons espaliers, step overs and how to do it. Discover the different methods […]

Summer bud grafting

27 Walton Avenue Twyford, Adderbury, Oxfordshire

Learn the history of budding and why. When and how to collect and store bud wood. Different types of rootstocks and reasons for selection. Different methods of summer budding and their pros and cons. Best tools to use. The best methods for sealing the graft. Plant aftercare and how to make sure your graft takes. […]

Orchard BioBlitz

Tehidy Country Park Tehidy, Camborne, Cornwall

29 - 30 July 2022 (midday to midday) Join us for a 24-hour wildlife BioBlitz in/around Tehidy Orchard in Tehidy Country Park (parking available via North Cliffs – Rangers Office entrance). Meet experts to learn about the species that call Tehidy home. Learn about the importance of orchards and other habitats in supporting and improving […]

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Heritage Apple Days

Brogdale Farm Brogdale Lane, Faversham, Kent

Heritage Apple Days – 24th & 25th September , 15th & 16th October Each day visitors will be able to delight in the wonderful  orchards bursting with fruit,  join our expert guides on a tour of the National Collection, visit the fruit displays, try some traditional juice pressing, sample homemade ciders and much more. Included […]

Rivers Orchard Apple Day

Rivers Heritage Site and Orchard The Crest, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

A festival of fun for the whole family. Feel free to bring a picnic. Buy freshly picked apples on the day or Help pick our crop and take home some of your favourites for free Pickers can taste as many as they like of the wide range of apples growing at the historical Rivers site […]

Easton Lodge Garden Apple Day

Easton Lodge Gardens Little Easton, Great Dunmow, Essex

Apple Day at Easton Lodge Garden is going ahead. The East of England Apple and Orchard Project and PTES will be with us to provide orchard and fruit-growing advice, show the wide range of apples grown in the region and help visitors identify any apples they bring with them. Uttlesford Beekeepers will be showing a […]

Jeacock’s Apple Day

Jeacock's Orchard Cow Lane, Tring

Come along to the Apple Day at Tring’s historic WWI smallholding orchard. Purchase heritage apples from Cam Valley Orchards and bring your unknown apples for expert ID by Anna Baldwin. Support local produce stalls, get involved with apple pressing, see fantastic craft stalls, including spinning, weaving, and wood turning. There will also be fruit tree […]

Fruit identification

27 Walton Avenue Twyford, Adderbury, Oxfordshire

Learn all the skills you need to help identify the fruit you maybe growing. What parts make up an apple? How to categorise which shape it is? The difference between cavities and basins et al. How to identify other top fruit or not! Books to utilise. On line help and support. Tricks and unique identification […]

Newbury Apple Day

Newbury Market Place

The annual Apple Day is happening again this year and will be in the Market Place from 9.00am to 3.30pm. A community event intended to celebrate the harvest, make the most of apples grown in Newbury’s gardens and have fun making apple juice. Town Crier to Ring in Newbury Apple Day - at 10.30am the […]

Bedfords Park Walled Garden apple day

Bedfords Park Visitor Centre Bedfords Park, Broxhill Road, Haveringate Bower, Essex, United Kingdom

Come and join us and the Friends of Bedfords Park and Walled Garden for a celebration of all things Apple. Apple press and bottling. Freshly pressed juice from the walled garden's own orchards will be on sale. Bring your own apples to press - bring clean bottles or containers with you. Free orchard and fruit […]

Wolds End Orchard, Chipping Campden Apple Day

Wolds End Orchard corner of Aston Road and Back Ends, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire

Come to the Orchard and meet some of the “Orchardeers” caring for this 3 acre Traditional Orchard in Chipping Campden. After saving the orchard from development plans, The Campden Society and The Friends of Wolds End Orchard have been working together to conserve this beautiful corner of glorious Chipping Campden. We have 90 trees with […]

Apple Day at Woolley Firs

Woolley Firs

Woolley Firs has a wide range of top fruit from medlars, quince and heritage apples, including local varieties, to modern sweet, crisp and juicy eaters. Join us for apple day and taste our varieties, make some speciality juice and learn more about apples from our experts. This is the way to choose a variety to […]

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Apple Day

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Community Orchard Mackney Lane, Brightwell cum Sotwell

Saturday 15 October 2022 - 11.00-16.00 It will be held at the Recreation Ground, Mackney Lane, Brightwell cum Sotwell OX10 0SQ. Highlights include Paul Chilton's giant display of over 100 varieties of apple and pear grown in the village, apple tasting, pressing and juicing, every variation of apple cakes, children's apple activities, chutneys, plus tours […]

Grafting Workshop – 15th April 2023

People's Trust for Endangered Species 3 Cloisters House, London, Greater London, United Kingdom

  Learn to graft fruit trees with PTES Orchard Biodiversity Officer Steve Oram. You'll learn how to make your own fruit tree to plant in your garden, school, a community orchard, or any little wild corner you can find. You’ll learn why we graft fruit trees and how to do it, and have the opportunity […]

The Big Apple

Hellens Much Marcle, Ledbury

Weekend rural events in and around Much Marcle Location: In and around Much Marcle, Herefordshire.  HR8 2LY will take you to Hellens Manor (Venue 7) Free entry to all nine venues. A small charge may apply to some special events, bookable in advance. A celebration of orchards, apples and cider in the Herefordshire parishes of […]

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