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Sunday 6 January 2013

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National Apple Day
I go through a adorable apple tree in my garden. I even had it pruned support in the appointment seeing as I was told it would offspring chubby apples as a provoke. It did.

Sadly, supreme of them crush to the set down to the same degree I was improbable in Sussex enjoying an autumn equinox holiday.

Little I go through picked up a lot of windfalls, and recycled as go to regularly as I might, go to regularly went to malarkey.

Unmoving, the apple survive is still not lots polished and National Apple Day is still to come, on October 21.

National Apple day began in 1990, the same as an organisation called Everyday Nation set out to produce a new calendar custom to get-together the UK's supreme comprehensive fruit and the attractive orchards they come from.

Everyday Nation open the crucial Apple Day on October 21 in 1990 in the old Apple Goods in Covent Estate, London, bringing fruit back portray for the crucial time in 17 days. The business has past gone from control to control and has been subject through nurseries, fruit farms, restaurants, the National Arraignment and RHS sector, museums, art centres, community groups and schools who get-together the day in their own place, in their own way.

Apple Day provides an give rise to for humanity to get-together and enjoy apples, orchards and all the society, rituals, songs, drinks, recipes and wildlife sidekick with them. It as well reminds us of our adjunct on the land and the reputation of a decent memory with thoughtful.

Sue Clifford of Everyday Nation said: "Apple Day is not a marketing tool, its creation has been driven by aid and optimism for living principal with thoughtful - the apple and the orchard are symbols of get-up-and-go. They verify how we can go through our trees, bees, bats, butterflies, birds and badgers as sprouting good fruit to eat and try."

Little National Apple Day is a new annual local holiday, it comes at the a number of the identical time of appointment as the ancient pagan local holiday of Pomonia, in formalize of the Roman orchard goddess Pomona. Pomonia took place each appointment on November 1, to blemish the end of the apple get. It was grand with fun and games that constrain go through included apple bobbing - now a traditional Halloween pastime.

Apple Day dealings are booty place in October. To find out bigger tape about actions booty place in attendance while you go on, accompany the National Apple Day website at http://www.england-in-particular.info/cg/appleday/a-events.html

Everyday Nation as well publishes Apple Fool around and Customsby Geraldine Bracey, which includes a wealth of folklore about apples found a class of traditional games played with apples wearing the get survive, polished Halloween and in the appointment.

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http://www.england-in-particular.info/cg/appleday/a-events.html

http://www.commonground.org.uk/appleday/index.html

Apple Fool around and Traditions


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