What a mixture of weather! Saturday we had sunshine, Sunday we had rain. We thank all our visitors who came on both days to support our Apple Festival Event.

We also thank all our volunteers who came and helped over the weekend, not all are in the above photo.

This year our apple sales were in the ‘Old Barn’

We managed to clear an open space to put out our tables and displays of apples

We had a coconut shy this year which proved popular with both ‘young and old’.

Some of our first visitors arrived right on opening time!

Our apple juice demonstrations were in the ‘New Barn’ this year and we had a new small demonstration press which made it much easier to show the juicing process close up

Freshly pressed apple juice could be tasted. We had pasteurised apple juice for sale

The bottles have a new bright design label this year!

Our cafe was open selling tea, coffee, juice and delicious homemade cakes and was always busy.

The orchard tours of the Heritage Orchard were popular, with Jonathan barely getting a break between the tours

Saturday tours were in the sunshine

You needed to be wrapped up for the Sunday tours!

Last but not least the apple spiralizer which peels, cores and slices the apple was a popular attraction again this year and is a fun way to get children to taste and eat apples.

Apple juice continues to be on sale £3 a bottle and we will still have apples for a few weeks at £1 per lb. So pop in any Wednesday and Saturday.
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