Apple Festival

A Celebration of Apples and Apple Orchards

October 2001

East Cambridgeshire District Council as part of a Local Agenda 21 is holding an Apple Festival in October. An annual National Apple Day is celebrated on 21st October, with associated events and festivals held up and down the country during the month and we thought it would be nice if East Cambs joined in the celebrations. We have organised a variety of ways in which to promote local apples and apple orchards and their associated benefits to the environment and people’s health throughout the week, starting with a cookery demonstration and information stall with musical entertainment on Ely’s Market Square on Thursday 25^th October.

On Saturday 27^th October the day kicks off with the first of three cookery demonstrations by Monica Askey at 8.30 am in the Market Square. Again, we have an information stand along with an opportunity to have your apples identified by an expert. We have some folk music and Morris dancing and for the children the ‘Wild Man of the Woods’ will be present all day telling stories and singing songs. We are also asking people to participate in the longest apple peeling competition to see if we can set an East Cambs record!

We have already advertised for people to send us their favourite apple recipes and will be compiling these into a book which will be available on Saturday. We are also inviting people to bring along their home made apple pies to the market square on Saturday to be entered into a competition due to be judged at the end of the day.