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Apple Day at Forty Hall Farm Apple Day is a national celebration held every year to celebrate local apples and orchards. Capel Manor College’s Farm at Forty Hall is holding an ‘Apple Day’ on Sunday 21 October, 10am - 4pm, at Forty Hill, Enfield EN2 9HA. It is hoped this will be the first of many Apple Day celebrations for the Farm. There will be a variety of apple-themed activities; apple bobbing, apple tasting, a longest peel competition, as well as stalls serving delicious local food and drink, and selling arts and crafts. There will also be Morris dancers, sheep shearing, a chance to try your hand at wool spinning and much more. If anyone has apples in their garden and doesn’t know what variety they are, bring them along and we will try to identify them.
project, which this year celebrates its first anniversary. Visitors to the Farm will be able to learn more about both projects and how they can help through volunteering and will also get to try their hand at pressing apple juice. There will be a stall selling lots of old and unusual varieties of apples. Forty Hall Farm also serves as an educational resource for students at Capel Manor College across a range of part and full-time courses, particularly in Animal Care, Arboriculture and Countryside Management. In addition, it
supports a range of volunteer and community activities, as well as events and educational visits. The Farm will also be opening the newly built stockyard, providing visitors with an opportunity to meet and feed the farm animals, including our new pygmy goats and our newly born piglets. And as if this wasn’t enough, they will be ending the day with the burning of a spectacular fire sculpture, created by local artist Joe Robinson and depicting the legend of the Golden Apple.
For further information visit www.capelmanor gardens.co.uk/events
The farm is home to London’s only organic commercial vineyard, the Forty Hall Farm Community Vineyard, as well as a new community orchard
EN Magazine October 2012