The Bere Ferrers Apple Fest

Got Apples?  Like Cider? Read this!      The Bere Ferrers Apple Fest is for you!

Pack your apples and good windfalls into trugs, buckets or sacks and bring them  along to the Autumn Apple Fest at Bere Ferrers Village Hall and Gardens 1pm to 5pm on Saturday October 7th^. to get them turned into delicious, healthy apple juice ready to be made into delicious, economical cider or kept for the most refreshing juice. All you need is a large plastic container to take the juice home. The Bere Ferrers Social Club is also having a cider fest at the same time with 8 different ciders to try! Pick up a leaflet showing you how to make cider or pasteurise your juice, which are simple easy processes and you are all set! Devon is the home of apples.

This is a day out for all the family. Watch The Tamar and Tavy Apple Group members turning the mounds of rosy Tamar Valley apples into golden juice using the group's mobile press and shredder. Buy the apple juice at its freshest. Taste local cider and apple juice.

For the children there is apple bobbing, apple fishing, peeling the longest apple peel, an apple shy as well as creating an animal from an apple. Children have their own competition for the best apple pie or crumble.

That's not all! At the Apple Fest you can watch such rural crafts as wood turning and glass blowing and buy the products of the skilled craftsmen. You can watch a scything demonstration and an apple tree pruning demonstration where you can learn to maximise the output from your trees.

Competitions include: the largest apple to be made into glass before your eyes, the famous the adult apple pie contest, judged by Seth Robertson  from Robertson's Organic Cafe in Tavistock and a raffle. (See the Tavy and Tamar Apple group website for details.)

Bring your unnamed apples along and see if you can them match them with the local varieties on display including Pig's Nose, Sweet Larks and Ladies' Fingers.

There will be merrymaking with the Border Morris men along with an invitation to join in the fun. And of course tea, delicious home made cakes, pasties, apple juice and cider on offer as well as rural produce.

Come along for a fantastic local event for all the family!

For full details visit the Tamar and Tavy Apple group website.

The Tavy and Tamar Apple Group is a local not-for-profit community group helping local people grow apples, use locally grown apples to make apple juice and cider and many other delicious products, manage their trees successfully and preserve local varieties of fruit trees that are fast disappearing. The group is based on the Bere Peninsula at Bere Ferrers.

The group owns equipment to shred and crush apples to produce apple juice which can then be turned into cider, or using the group's own pasteurisers or your own equipment, to produce and store fresh and delicious apple juice. The equipment can be loaned out to groups and individuals as it is mounted on a trailer.

Help and advice is available to make cider or juice and bottles are available to buy. Training is given in the correct operation of the group's apple juice making equipment.

Courses are run through the year for pruning and orchard care as well as grafting and scything.

There are social events including wassailing in the new year and the famous Autumn Apple Fest.

Become a member and get special concessions.