Apple Celebration - Deal Seedy Saturday 17th Oct Landmark

The next edition of the Deal’s Seedy Saturday will be on Saturday 17th Oct between 10am to 1pm

This is the regular Seed and Plant swap hosted by Deal With It at the Community Garden at the Landmark Centre on Deal High St

This edition has a apple theme with fruit presses, locally donated apples and pears for people to try their hand on making some real juice.

There will also be a medley of apple related cakes, hopefully some local cider makers and the Chequers Cooking School will be on hand with seasonal local food sweetmeats.

There will be some music from the popular local musical ensemble the Sunshine Ukes

Apple Fayre @ the White Cliffs on Saturaday 23rd Oct

Apple Fayre Weekend

Fairs & Festivals, Food & Drink

White Cliffs of Dover, Dover

Buy local produce, learn about and taste different apple varieties and have a go on fun games and competitions.

A marquee will accommodate a large selection of apples and juices, where visitors can taste old and new varieties before they buy. An apple expert will be on hand for consultations and other local produce stalls will be selling their wares.

Try your hand at guessing the weight of the pumpkin or finding the maggot! Prizes to be won.

Saturday 23rd October 2010+ show more dates

Sunday 24th October 2010

10am - 4pm

Free event. Usual car parking fees apply.

Venue

White Cliffs of Dover
Langdon Cliffs
Upper Road
Dover
CT16 1HJ

Contact

01304 202756
whitecliffs@nationaltrust.org.uk

Victoria's Green Matters - 29th July

Deal With IT's Secretary Victoria Nicholls writes a regular column in the East Kent Mercury:  

‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ so the old saying goes and we must not dismiss this as an old wives tale as apples contain lots of Vitamin C, vital for our good health.

Here in Kent there is a history of fruit production but modern living has cost our apple production dear. Supermarkets have imported apples from near and far, from France and New Zealand, and have neglected our home produced fruit. Local producers found that they could not sell their apples and orchards have been abandoned, but help is at hand with the Mid Kent Downs Orchards Project. This project has built a sustainable future for some traditional orchards, close to the village centres of Sheldwich, Milstead, Lenham and Stockbury.

The aim of this project is to involve whole communities in restoring their orchards to their former glory. Advice has been given to landowners, parishioners and volunteers through guidance notes and workshop training and has been received with enthusiasm, transferring new skills and expertise.

Farmers in other parts of the country are finding that they must diversify if they are to survive in the modern market and have planted orchards to grow apples to produce apple juice, made on their own farm and sold in the farm shop. The emphasis is on locally produced goods, sold locally.

It is important that we support our home producers as much as possible and we must demand that the supermarkets stock home produced goods and not settle for cheap imports. Fruit that has been imported from far away places such as the USA, Australia or New Zealand carries with it a heavy price in carbon emissions from the long distances that it has travelled. In the years to come, when oil is scarce and costly, we will need all the local food that we can grow. It is important that we start now to support our local food producers.

For more information go to www.kentdowns.org.uk/