What is the Frome Apple Group?
In 2008, the Frome Apple Group was set up with the aim of promoting apples in Frome life, as a source of food and drink, and also income.
Its goals are also to protect the apple tree as a wildlife host, and appreciate the historic and cultural value of our apples and trees, finding ways to share the poetry and stories they have inspired.
What does the Frome Apple Group do?
There are a number of things that the group will aim to do, throughout the year, depending on what we can organise. They include: • celebrating Apple Day • mapping apple trees in and around Frome • communal processing • learning more about how to take care of apple trees (through pruning workshops, for example).
Mapping apple trees
We started mapping trees at the Green Fair in 2009. The results can be seen HERE
More trees will be added all the time, when people tell us about trees they have or know of. If you have a tree, please let us know, via the mapping website.
Communal processing
Dealing with excess apples can be hard work. Getting together with other people in the same situation to press apples into juice or cider, dry them into ‘leather’ for preserving or sell them on communally could be a more fruitful way of dealing with a big harvest. Sign up to our email list to find out when events are being organised.
About Apple Day
Apple Day is celebrated nationally on 21st October each year. For 2009, we have decided to hold an event on Sunday 18th October at Christchurch First School, Feltham Lane, BA11 5AJ. See details on the calendar HERE, and see our discussions on the forum HERE.
Find out more about what’s on
How you can get involved or participate in our events?
Anyone can come along to the events we organise. We will publicise them as widely as possible and you should always be able to find out about them on this website or by signing up to our email list.
If you would like to get involved with the group, then we are always glad to have more people to help organise activities. What we’d really like are: • volunteers to help at Apple Day • people who can organise communal processing • people to tell us what apples they have.
To sign up for the email mailing list, email helenjohnstone@yahoo.com, giving us your name - and ideally telling us a little about your interest in the group. Do you have an apple tree? Do you feel passionate about making the most of our home-grown produce? Do you just want to be sure you know what is happening?
