An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but they are also good for the planet. So let’s get juicing!

Apple Day is an annual celebration of apples and orchards. From the start, Apple Day was intended to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety we are in danger of losing, not simply in apples, but in the richness and diversity of landscape, ecology and culture too.

It traditionally falls on 21 October, the date of the first such event in 1990 set up by Common Ground, but events happen throughout September and October

Thanks to Leeds Urban Harvest and Fruit Works Co-operative we have apple pressing and juicing equipment available to hire or borrow in Leeds and Bradford. As a result many local community hubs, allotments and other outdoor spaces can hold public and private Apple Days.

There are 100+ fruit orchards  in Leeds and this great system we have where people can rent or borrow juicing equipment means lots of home-grown apples  that would otherwise go to waste, get picked,  juiced, eaten and stored, saving much food waste.