Community Orchard - September 16 News

APPLE DAY
Steyning Community Orchard. 
Saturday 1st October.  12 Noon - 4pm.  Memorial Playing Field.  ! FREE !

Our 3rd Annual Family Fun day with apples at its core!

If you enjoyed the Steyning Festival 'Big Top' atmosphere, you will love our Apple Day too. Do come along and join in the fun. Something for everyone.

Highlights:
o    Live music all day
o    Professional Face Painter for the kids (and adults too if you like!)
o    Julia Donaldson will join us for story telling/songs/book signing (our local Gruffalo author)
o    Watch and help with Apple Juicing. (always fascinating and messy !)
o    Lots to eat and drink

Full list of activities
o    Refreshments. Including tea, coffee, hot chocolate, apple juice, appley treats, cakes, and a home made produce stall with jams and preserves. We hope to have a bar with cider too.
o    Live music throughout the afternoon from 3 local groups
o    Apple Juicing. We will have 2 Apple Presses in operation, so bring along your own apples, and for a small fee we will press and bottle the juice for you to take home. Or just buy some of our own freshly pressed juice.
o    Apple tasting. An amazing display of over 30 different apple varieties for you to try.
o    Apple sales. Buy bags of locally grown eating and cooking apples
o    Childrens' games, activities, quizzes for all ages.     including *Face Painting, Apple bobbing, Longest apple peel, Colouring, Pin the Maggot on the Apple, Hunt the apple quiz etc, etc. (*there will be a £2 or £4 charge for face painting, depending on your chosen design)
o    Julia and Malcolm Donaldson will be holding a story and song session during the afternoon (our very own Gruffalo author living here in Steyning!) . Julia will also be doing a book signing session afterwards, with assistance from the Steyning Bookshop.
o    Information about the Steyning Community Orchard and our current projects. Advice about fruit tree growing.
o    'Steyning's Fruit Trees' survey. Tell us about the trees you have in your garden for our survey. We may find a new apple we could call 'Steyning Superb'!
o    Tree planting ceremony.  This will be the 10th Sussex Heritage apple we will have planted
    on the MPF. This one is called 'Alfriston' and will be planted by Anne Hills in memory of her parents. Alfriston was first developed in the late 1700's and grown in the Uckfield area.
o    Young Fruit trees for sale to plant in your own garden.

If you've not found us yet, look out across the cricket ground/football pitches from the clubhouse. The Community Orchard is in the far left hand corner.

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