the NEW 2012 Apple Day poster...

We are really excited to share with you this preview of our new Apple Day 2012 poster, designed exclusively by local artist and printmaker Andy Lovell. Andy was born in East London and studied illustration at Liverpool University. With work inspired by the natural world, many of Andy's screenprints and lithographs feature local scenes such as the Slad Valley. We are really grateful for his beautiful design, surely collectable for the future? 

2012 BIG APPLE DAY

Sunday 30^th September 

12.30-4pm 

St Mary’s Churchyard, Painswick 

(or Church Rooms if wet)

We look forward to welcoming you at the Big Apple Day. Please do bring along as many apples and pears as you can carry! Due to the shortage of fruit this year we need as many people as possible to join in our communal pressing on our magnificent oak press (and remember to bring a container to take some juice home in). 

If you can’t come along on the day and have fruit you would like to donate then please ring Greg on 812879 for collection or queries about fruit picking.

Enjoy a delicious lunch of seasonal stews, apple fritters and calvados cream with Painswick apple and pear juice, cider, apple brandy and mead to drink. There will be live music to entertain you and fun for all the family (apple bobbing, apple carving and games) as well as lots of stalls. 

You will also have the opportunity to meet the experts: tree pruning, cider-making, beekeeping and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

Perhaps you have a fruit tree in your garden you would like to have identified? If you bring along three of your own apples or pears (ordinary rather than perfect specimens please) together with leaves and stem, one of our experts will do their best to identify it. 

We are also in the process of creating a map of all current fruit trees in Painswick. You can help us by pinpointing your own trees or any communal trees you know of. You can do this either on the Big Apple Day itself or at other times in the Painswick Library where the map will be held. This map is based on an original orchard survey of Painswick c.1839, copies of which will be on sale at the Big Apple Day.

Calling all cooking enthusiasts to enter our Autumn Fruit-Cooking Competition! This is open to all with fabulous fruity prizes for adults and children under 12. It is divided into two categories: best fruit in a jar (jam/ pickle/chutney) and best fruit bake (cake/pie/tart). Entries on the (Big Apple) day please, £1 per entry. 

We would also be very grateful for any donations to our home-produce stall. Any enquiries please phone Iris on 812879. All proceeds raised go to World Vision Lideta (Ethiopia) and the Painswick Community Orchard Group.

  www.painswickcommunityorchard.co.uk

The Big Apple Day 2012

The 2012 BIG Apple event will take place on Sunday, 30th September and we are looking for volunteers to join us to make the day as big a success as it was last year.

If you would like to get involved then come along and find out more at the Shire's Bar (behind the Falcon Inn), New Street, Painswick on Friday 10th August at 7.30pm.

There are many aspects to plan from apple picking and pressing to food and music...

Any queries please contact Greg or Iris on 01452 812879.