apple pressing

Community Apple Pressing Day

Event Date: 
22/10/2023 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter

Barny Butterfield, chief cider maker at Sandford Orchards, and in-house cider maker at the Darts Farm small batch cidery, will be at Darts Farm on Sunday 22nd October pressing apples from gardens around the area to create the Darts Farm x Sandford Orchards’ Community Blend Cider 2023.

Locals are encouraged to drop their homegrown apples between 11am and 4pm from Saturday 14th until Sunday 22nd October, when they can watch Barny press them using Darts Farm’s 140 year-old stow cloth press.

The juice will then be left to slowly ferment away on native yeasts in vats in The...

Apple pressing

Event Date: 
05/10/2014 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Knapp Community Nature Reserve, Station Road, Sidmouth.

A pressing engagement at the Knapp!

There’s a nip in the air in the mornings, so it can only mean one thing.

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us – and it’s time for apple pressing at the Knapp Community Nature Reserve on Station Road in Sidmouth.

Come along on Sunday 4 October between 10am and 1pm to help the East Devon District Council Countryside team pick, chop and press the apples.

You can also bring some of your own apples along to press – remember to bring a container to take some juice away with you. This is a free event and...

A pressing engagement at the Knapp!

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 09/22/2014 - 10:34am

There’s a nip in the air in the mornings, so it can only mean one thing.

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us – and it’s time for apple pressing at the Knapp Community Nature Reserve on Station Road in Sidmouth.

Come along on Sunday 4 October between 10am and 1pm to help the East Devon District Council Countryside team pick, chop and press the apples.

You can also bring some of your own apples along to press – remember to bring a container to take some juice away with you. This is a free event and everyone is welcome.

For more information...

Quickes Apple Day

Event Date: 
20/10/2012 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Quickes Cheese Show, Newton St Cyres, EX5 5AY

Apple Day at Quicke's Farm Shop: Saturday 20th October 11.00-4.00

Apple Day is an event started in 1990, traditionally in October, by an organisation called Common Ground to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety of English apples and the danger of losing variety – not simply in apples, but richness and diversity of landscape, place, ecology and culture too. Apple Day has become a nationally recognized event hosted across the country.

The actual event and theme of the day works off supporting orchards, bringing people back to nature, but leaves room...