Isle of Wight
Apple Tree Cafe

at Afton Park

Apple Day Festival

The 2006 Apple Day Festival is on Saturday and Sunday 23rd & 24th September.

Click here to go to www.appledays.co.uk - the official apple Day Festival website

The Apple Day Festival is a way of celebrating the English apple and apple traditions.

There will be a wide range of stalls, craft stands, demonstrations and food on the menu - many of which have an apple theme. At the core of the event (!) are the ever-popular apple-pressing, pruning demonstrations, apple identification and help with cultural problems. Last year 47 different varieties of dessert and cooking apples were on display with experts helping people identify fruit from their own trees.

Apple games Families can help with the harvesting, taste freshly pressed apple juice and dine on apple & parsnip soup or freshly baked apple cake from The Apple Tree Café.

But it isn't all apples, the IOW Farmer's Market also attend and other activities include pole-lathing demonstrations, Chainsaw Sculpting, Pony & Trap rides, Archery, a Samba band and fun and games for the children with the 'Apple Olympics'. Island beers and wines are also available in the beer tent.

The Apple Days event seems to have captured people's imagination, with young & old, locals & visitors attracted to the age-old traditions of harvesting and celebrating Orchards as very special places.

Local Schools

In the run up to the day children from the schools of the West Wight help with the autumn harvesting and are shown how apples are grown, picked, stored, graded and pressed. There is also an exhibition of the childrens' work.