Apple Day

About Apple Day

You're invited to come with us on our Apple Day and celebrate one of the most underrated fruits; the humble apple! Click here for updates on facebook

This year will be the fifth time we hold our Apple day.

But what is it?

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Southampton certainly has its fair share of apple trees: gardens, allotments, parks and green spaces, dotted all over the city. There's so many varieties, sweet crispy, dry, floral, and juicy. Sadly many of these go to waste each year, a recent study said apples are one of the most commonly wasted food items. This seems like such a shame. Especially when there's many different ways to keep apples. Apple butter, apple rings, apple sauce, and the big winner, and of course apple juice.  

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It is always a joy to watch people drink the freshest apple juice there is. There's nothing quite like like it in the shops, this stuff is delicious. We think it tastes even better when you've helped make it. So we provide the space, the equipment and we spend a month collecting apples so you also have them to press. 

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Please bring something with you like a squash bottle as you'll need containers to take the juice home.

If you have any spare apples, please them along!

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Apple expert Chris Bird from Sparsholt College will be joining us with the College Fruit collection, including their National Plant Collection of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Apples. If you have an apple tree in your garden, and would like to know what type of apple it is, they can help you ID it! Simply bring your apples with you and find out!

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At 12:00 we will run a guided foraging walk that will take in the nature reserve, collect as many apples as we can, and talk about the richness and diversity of landscape, ecology and culture too.

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We will be selling refreshments including mulled apple juice, cakes, beef and vegan burgers, with chutney or apple sauce, and pumpkin and apple soup (vegan).

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If you are after some autumn inspiration, we will also be selling pumpkins and squashes for both display and eating.