Sat 26th September 2 – 7pm
Join us for our annual celebration of apples where we invite you to come help us pick our apples and get involved pressing the apples into lovely fresh juice. There is also an apple pie competition, apple games & nature crafts to get involved with. There will be a harvest display table with a chance to taste the many different types of fruit from the orchard. Resilient Orchards team will be there to help with the manual hand-pressing of apples. The Tate and St Ives Library will be joining us doing some lovely activities too.
There will also be hot food, pizza, tea, cakes, and the bar will be open, serving cider and local beers. Bring a bag to take home some apples!
Apple Pie & Dessert Competition – Win an Apple Trophy & lunch for 2 at the Tuesday Community Core Cafe.
There are 2 categories:
Apple Pie: Can be a tart or pie, must only include apple and pastry, plus optional sugar & spices.
Or Apple Dessert: Can be pastry or cake-based and may include apples with any other ingredients. (No apple ice cream/ mousse etc). Entries to The Core by 3pm, winner announced 4.30pm. Leftovers are sold to support the event (If baker agrees – full ingredients list needed please)
Live bands this year are:
- Jimbino Vegan & the Jazz Cannibals, an entertaining London-based band performing original songs inspired by New Orleans jazz, folk, reggae, rap and punk, combining storytelling, humour and plenty of energy.
- Leon Andrews & Brody Barden – local musicians on vocals and guitar.
- The Tinner’s Ceilidh Band A local band playing traditional Irish & Scottish tunes and leading the audience in ceilidh dancing.
- The Devil’s Company – A three-piece undead jazz rock band. Fusing swing jazz and alt rock in an energetic set of classic covers and original sounds. Lively fun with a deadly swing!
- Dreckly Unchained – a St Ives community band playing original songs and instrumentals, blending local themes with a mix of styles like Celtic, Latin, and global folk. Musicians: Gavin Nicol, Treve Nicol, Sylvie Nicol and Kari Prince.
Volunteers needed – if you’re interested in helping or being involved, please get in touch.
Big thanks to the Tanner Phoenix Trust (Cornwall Community Foundation) for their donation of £1000 towards our apple day. This covers the cost of most of our musicians but we are self-funding the rest so donations are welcomed.
Please note,
this is weather dependent – our back up date Sunday 27th September, keep a look out on our socials or our ‘What’s on‘ for updates.