Saturday 13 October: Orchard Open Day at St Laurence Orchard, 11.00am – 1.00pm
The orchard is in Eastwoodbury Lane, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6RH. Parking is at the new car park for St. Laurence Park on new road going west from Eastwoodbury Lane, left at roundabout.
Saturday 20 October, 6.00 for 6.30pm: Harvest Supper – details via Sharon either by ringing 07947655947 or emailing sharon_chan14@hotmail.com
St. Mark’s Centre is in Princes Street, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1QA
Sunday 21 October: Apple Fun Day, Growing Together, on the corner of Fairfax Drive and Prittlewell Chase, Southend-on-Sea, 2.00 – 5.00pm
Apples games, orchard tours, apple tasting and sales, apple pressing and juicing, pruning demonstrations, wildlife trails, bbq, scavenger hunts, story telling, films, discussion, toffee apples, local food, crafts and cards
SEEOG will have a stall at both the Orchard Day and the Apple Fun Day.
Keep an eye on both the SEEOG and the Trust Links website www.trustlinks.org for more information nearer the time. Save the dates in your diary!
‘ARE THERE ANY APPLES IN SOUTHEND’, asks Andrew Tann
Earlier this week we heard from Andrew Tann, from Crapes Fruit Farm, near Aldham http://www.england-in-particular.info/goods/g-case1-22.html
‘Not a daft question. We have less than 10% here – like much of Eastern England and Northern Europe.’
‘It seems that several coincidental factors had pre disposed the trees to a modest crop expectation. Frost in North Essex on the morning of Good Friday and again 16th May has overridden everything else to blame! Northern Europe, Poland and North Germany, all similarly without’
Please let Andrew know the current situation in your patch andrew.tann1@virgin.net