SLOG Events
SLOG holds practical and interesting events for our members throughout the year including grafting and budding workshops (where you can create your own trees, all materials provided), pruning workshops for both standard and espallier trees, orchard visits, seasonal meetings with guest speakers and members apple pressing days where you can bring your own apples to be pressed (with some volume limits). We also have a stand that tours some of the local fairs and events. You always learn something at a SLOG event!
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Saturday 14th November: 2pm – 5pm Working Party
Mill Fields (SLOG Annex) Crosthwaite
Winter Pruning and management. Please bring croppers and gardening gloves to managed wire deer protectors. Wellies always a wise choice for the terrain. Meet at Crosthwaite Village Hall carpark at 2 pm. Short walk down trackway to the orchard.
Directions: To car park:- W3W: ///array.free.spout
Google Map pinpoint here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2mrHxTvBmAsM6wz47
Apple Press Hire: The Spiedel Mill & Hydropress kit will again be based at Mike Gibson’s Tarnside Farm, Crosthwaite. To book, email Mike at mgibson231@btinternet.com or phone 015395 68639 with your requested date(s) and quote your SLOG membership number.
The Rack & Cloth press is managed by Dick Palmer. To book, email Dick at dickrhonapalmer@gmail.com or phone 01229 716095.
Apple Pressing Dates:
Saturday 26th September 10am – 3pm Members Apple Pressing at Halecat, Witherslack. Book time slots with Dick Palmer (details above).
Saturday 3rd October 11am – 3pm Ford Park Apple Day (including pressing), Ulverston.
Sunday 4th October 10am – 3.30pm Beetham Nursery Apple Weekend including pressing, apple identification & advice.
Saturday 10th October - Broughton Apple Pressing, for details contact John Sutton at jrsutty48@gmail.com
Sunday 11th October 11am – 4pm NT Acorn Bank apple identification & technical advice.
Sunday 18th October Leighton Hall Apple Day
Saturday 24th October 12 noon – 4pm Sedbergh Apple Day including pressing, apple identification & advice
Saturday 24th October 10am – 3pm Hest Bank Apple pressing, email Moyna Hargest for a time slot: emoynah@gmail.com
Sunday 25th October - Storth Apple Day, 2pm Heron Hall, Apple Pressing & Identification
Sunday 1st November 10am – 3pm Members Apple Pressing at Sprint Mill, Burneside. Book time slots with Andy Gilchrist.
North Cumbria Orchard Group Events
NCOG events are open to SLOG Members as a reciprocal arrangement.
A link to NCOG events can be found by clicking here:
Apple Blossom - from Halecat Orchard
Orchard Events
The orchard planting is coming along. A plan of the orchard and its varieties is now available.
More details are on the SLOG Orchard page.
If you would like to join the orchard team, please email Andy Andy Gilchrist or call 01539 727772.
We see this as an opportunity to:
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maintain some of the rarer Furness, Cumberland and Westmorland varieties, from which scion wood and/or buds can be provided for propagation
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grow on grafts from unidentified trees to obtain fruit for identification
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evaluate scab-resistant varieties under Cumbrian conditions
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evaluate new rootstocks such as M116
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evaluate the suitability of new varieties for Cumbrian conditions
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etc etc (and it doesn't have to be just apples!)
SLOG Apple Pressing Events
SLOG Annex Orchard in Crosthwaite
Autumn Harvest