Irish Seed Savers Association will be holding their annual Apple Day on Sunday September 26th 2010 at Irish Seed Savers in Scariff Co Clare.
Their 20 acres of Organic Heritage Orchards, Seed Gardens, and Woodlands are open 7 days a week to visitors but the annual open day gives visitors a chance to taste the heritage apples and see more of what happens at this environmental charity where they grow, conserve and save the seed of over 600 heritage varieties of vegetables, apples, potatoes and grains.
The interest in “growing you own” has never been greater and Irish Seed Savers, through its subscription based supporter scheme helps people to grow delicious, nutritious varieties of vegetables and potatoes, fruit and grains many of which are not available anywhere else.
Each Irish Seed saver supporter receives 5 varieties of these heritage vegetable seeds in addition to 3 varieties of non-commercially available potato tubers.
The Open day will run from 12 to 5pm and as usual there is no parking at Irish Seed Savers on the day so if you are coming along please park at Scariff national school and take one of the free shuttle buses the short distance to the site.
There will be apple tasting and juicing of some of the 140 rare heritage apple varieties which Irish Seed Savers grow on site, Seed saving demonstrations, talks on heritage apples and biodiversity, Bee keeping demonstration, live music, garden walks and tours, organic food stalls and much more.
Traditional crafts will be shown such as Coppersmithing, Spinning and Weaving and Willow Basketry and there will be information on renewable energy.
There will also be children activities on the day including arts and crafts and Mini Beast Hunts.
The chef Richard Corrigan will also be there, giving a Cookery Demonstration and filming for his new series 'Corrigan Cooks Naturally'.
In addition there will be a launch of the new double CD, DVD entitled
'Apples in Winter' which is a celebration of the Irish Apple in music, song, dance and film and features artists such as Tommy Hayes of Stockton’s Wing, Karen Casey, Mick O Brien, Cindy Cummings, Carl Corcoran, Michelle Mulcahy and Mary Frances Keenan
For more information on Irish Seed Savers and what they do please see
