Sunday, 9 October 2011

Apple day was a HUGE success...


Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the first Painswick Apple Day, in St. Mary's Churchyard. It was truly wonderful with a fantastic open air kitchen serving pork and apple stew for lunch with apple fritters, music and poetry from the Stroud Football Poets, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust making carved apples, Painswick Bird Club, Beekeeper, local forager Rupert Burdock, apple bobbing, John Rhodes of Landcare Services providing tree advice & the focal point of the day, the great Oak apple press, which everyone bought their apples to press! 

Wednesday, 5 October 2011


Apple Scrumping Day...


This is the amazing press made out of oak by Ben (looking through the press in the picture). The children picked apples from a local orchard and then pressed them to make 'Painswick Apple Juice.' 

Picking

Washing and cutting out the bruises and stems

Pressing

The apple 'cheeses'

 Pouring

Glorious colour