Sunday 30th 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.
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