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Cockington Apple Day
FOOD & CRAFTS festival
SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER
10am to 4pm - Adults £3, children free
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CRAFT EXHIBITORS *
Alona Kemmett - Bespoke handknitted accessories including scarves, shawls, belts & bags
Bob Eveleigh - Framed photographs of Kenyan wildlife & unframed prints
Christiane by Design - Handmade jewellery & christmas decorations
Dream Thyme -
Herbal body creams, oils and treatment balms
E.A. Brown & Co. - Designer of the Slug Hut, an environmentally friendly way to deliver bait to slugs & snails
Forever Living Products - Health & beauty products for all the family, aloe vera & bee products
Giddy Gecko - Contemporary tables, mirrors, clocks & wall art inspired by metal, the sea, pebbles & wood
Flowers & things -
Floral painted metalware, oil paintings & pressed flower work
Fran Vallis - handknitted baby clothes
Imagerail - Photographic images of Devon, from greetings cards to framed prints
Individuals - Hand-painted wooden childrens items, personalised upon sale
It's a Shore Thing - Shell collages, clocks, tide clocks & greetings cards
Joanna Martins - Cold cast bronze sculptures of animals
Kat Boon Design - Fashion & home accessories handcrafted from reclaimed materials
Leyford Studio - Decorated glassware & mirrors
Loveday Designs - Jewellery, cards, hand-painted glassware, coasters, boxes & original artwork
Mike Taffinder Wood Crafts - Wooden drying-up cloth holders & wooden dragonflies
Not Shrinking Violets - Individually designed jewellery, fully handmade from silver, gold & semi-precious stones
Pookie & Brambles - Handmade, custom designed bead & button jewellery
Premier Craft Design - Sculptured neckwear, earrings & cufflinks all designed & made in their Chudleigh workshop
Pru Preston - Original paintings, limited edition prints, signed prints, cards & notelets
Rona Baker - Textile bags & home accessories in a range of sizes & designs
Stitch in Twine - Jute bags, storage pots, knitted jewellery, socks, scarves, mittens & textile bags
Torbay Candles -
Hand Poured Scented Candles and Wax Melts
Treasure Trails - Murder mystery, treasure hunt, walking, cycling & driving trail books
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FOOD & DRINK EXHIBITORS *
Bays Brewery - Locally brewed beers
Bite Me! - Pies, quiches, cakes, jams & chutneys
Bread of Devon - range of plain, savoury, seed and sweet loaves using wheat, rye and spelt flours.
Brimblecombe's Cider - Vintage & farmhouse ciders
Charlton Orchards - Local apple varieties, pears, squash & apple juice
Chocolate Heaven made in Devon - Chocolates, fudge, toffee apples, cakes, quiche and scones
Farmhouse Pies & Pasties - Wide selection of handmade pies & pasties
Gratton & Oldridge - Quality preserves
Luxury Pancakes - Sweet & savoury pancakes
Norsworthy Dairy Goats - Goats cheeses
Occombe Farm - Organic steak burgers plus pizzas, quiche, apple slices and pastiess
Penny's Parties - Homemade
Pâtés, Westcountry Cheeses including Godminster Vintage Cheddar
Poole Farm Pork - Hog Roast & BBQ
Real Drink - Apple juice, elderflower cordial, traditional cider and sparkling cider
Shute Fruit & Produce - Seasonal fresh fruit & vegetables, preserves and elderflower cordial
Sweet Memory Lane - Traditional old-fashioned sweets in presentation boxes, jars and gift packaging
Teoni's - Cookies, shortbread, muffins, gingerbread men, cakes and flapjack
Torbay Beekeepers - Local honey and other bee's products
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ENTERTAINMENT & ACTIVITIES
Apple Pressing on Cockington's Victorian Press - bottled juice available to take away and ferment into cider
Apple Desserts from the Clay Oven
Juggling & Circus skills Show
Live Music
Punch & Judy Show
Natural History Walk led by Brian Carter
Newton Bushell Morris Men
Open craft studios - watch craftsmen and women at work
Children's activities - including making mini-toffee apples, apple bobbing and the longest peel competition
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HISTORY OF APPLE DAY
This year will be Cockington's 16th Apple Day festival. Apple Day was first initiated on 21 October 1990 by Common Ground – a London based charity campaigning for local distinctiveness.
The charity wanted to preserve and raise awareness of the alarming rate at which orchards were disappearing, along with the local varieties, the recipes, the songs, stories, pruning and wassailing. Hundreds of Apple Day events are held nationwide at this time of year, to regain a sense of local pride by celebrating and demonstrating our local orchards, landscape and culture in the hope of deepening public interest.
Of the 6,000 varieties of apple once grown in Britain , only nine are now readily available in the supermarkets. Modern farming methods, rapid transport and the import of cheap fruit from abroad have led to the removal of many old orchards, along with new methods of horticultural production and storage, as well as new buildings and development. Devon alone has lost 90% of its total orchards since 1965.
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GETTING TO APPLE DAY
Directons to Cockington here (Opens in new window)
A free Park & Ride Bus will run from Occombe Farm (60/61 stop) every 20 minutes
Directions to Occombe Farm here (Opens in new window)
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MORE DETAILS
For more information, please contact Rachel on 01803 606035 or e-mail rachel.tapper@countryside-trust.org.uk |
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Apple Day Food & Crafts Festival is a fundraising event run in aid of  Charity No. 1077561
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