Tarvin Apple Pressing Day 4th October

Tarvin Apple Pressing Day
Make a date with your family, with your young relatives and your friends to come along to
Tarvin Apple Pressing Dayon Saturday 4th October 2025between11.00 am and 3.00 pmat the Tarvin Community Woodland Orchard (behind Crossfields). Enjoyment for all guaranteed!

Apple Pressing Day is always held on the first Saturday in October in "The Orchard" within Tarvin Woodland. This year, that will be Saturday, 4th October 2025.It will run between 11.00am and 3.00pm. It is a day intended to be good fun for the village and its families, and is planned by the Trust to be revenue-neutral (in other words, we aren't trying to make a profit). The notion is that families can come along with bags, buckets, or barrows full of apples and be involved in their being chopped up and pressed, so that the juice can be drunk there and then. Alternatively, if suitable, plastic bottles have also been brought, the juice can be taken away. (However, if it is kept for long, it is likely to ferment and may not taste as good.) With three presses working, there will be lots going on, and the children will be busy. Add to that the willow crafts planned for the youngsters, and there should be plenty of time for parents to 'catch up' with friends. Because it takes place between 11:00am and 3:00pm (in other words, over lunchtime), we have always provided both drinks and hot refreshments – but at prices that aim merely to cover our costs. We don't want to make a profit, but because all of our money has been given by Tarvin people to help us run the woodland, we must avoid running the day at a loss.

Additionally, this year, there will also be a stall selling Tarvin's infamous Christmas Market Pancakes to raise money for the Christmas market. Because the market is so expensive to set up each year, the team must raise the cash to enable them to close the road, pay for insurance and hire the stalls, before they can begin to organise the event in detail. Selling their tasty pancakes whenever possible will help to raise some of that cash, and the Trust is delighted to be able to help them in this way.