Apple Day 2025

Tideswell’s Community Orchard and Kitchen Garden were blessed with perfect weather for this year’s Apple Day 2025. Every year we celebrate National Apple Day with traditional apple juicing and a sale of jams & cakes lovingly made by the volunteers at the Community Kitchen Garden from fruits grown on the orchard and in the kitchen garden.

Everyone is welcome to have a go at making fresh delicious apple juice using our traditional apple presses and taste the apple juice or take some home. It is free to all; there is no charge. We are always grateful to those who bring and share their own apple harvests so that people without apple trees can have a go and taste their own apple juice too.

Tideswell Community Orchard has many local, heritage and endangered varieties of fruit trees. It was planted by the residents of Tideswell & District and officially opened on 24th March 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. As such, it belongs to the community so that everyone can pick and enjoy the apples, plums & damsons from the trees on Wheston Bank. There is a picnic table and benches where you can enjoy views over Tideswell village and watch the butterflies, bees and other insects in the wildflower meadow.

A big thank you to The George Inn who generously allow us to use their picnic tables every year to host our Apple Day events, and to everyone who helped and supported us.