- Big Apple at the Old Vicarage in Putley
- Big Apple walks
- Apple Blossom at The Big Apple
- Fruit display at the Big Apple Harvestime event
- Crushing perry pears The Big Apple Harvestime.
- Pressing perry juice at Greg's Pitt during Big Apple Harvestime
- Cider and Perry tasting and sales at Big Apple Blossomtime in Putley
The Big Apple Association
Twice a year the seven parishes parishes of the Marcle Ridge in Herefordshire celebrate their heritage of orchards, apples and pears, cider and perry.
Harvestime 2012
On October 13th and 14th The Big Apple Association holds the annual Harvestime festival, a unique blend of activities in and around orchards, combined with traditional cider and perry making.
Once again the centre of these activities will be the village of Much Marcle. We are still puting together the programme which will appear later in the summer.
Blossomtime 2012
Once again, we celebrated the glories of the orchards in full blossom and sampled the products of the previous autumn - ie lots of cider, perry and apple juice, including the winners of the Cider and Perry Trials. Also featured this year was the Moviebus, part of the Borderlines Film Festival.
All the details of what happened are on the Blossomtime 2012 page >>
Cider and Perry Trials 2012
The venue was again Putley Village Hall on Saturday, 5th May 2012. We had 191 entries from 76 competitors and the winning entries were set up in the hall for tasting as part of the Blossomtime 2012 event.
Full report>> (updated on 8th May 2012 with corrections)
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The Big Apple Association is a non-profit organisation which promotes interest in English Apples and Cider, including celebrating all aspects of apples and orchards; encourages visitors and local residents to understand and enjoy the rural heritage of the Marcle Ridge parishes in all their diversity; offers the opportunity to local community organisations to raise money through activities associated with the Big Apple Association; and encourages steps to conserve the orchard landscape in the Marcle Ridge parishes and to maintain the diversity of varieties grown. This is detailed in our Constitution. See also our Privacy Policy regarding the use of our website.
