Ryton Village Hall held a special apple day and people flocked in with there bags of apples to have them pressed into juice.
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00:00Wrighton Village Hall and it's a celebration of the apple. How you doing guys?
00:04Oh just having so much fun.
00:06And Huw, I loved your t-shirt, always look on the bright side of life, I like it.
00:12We've got Huw and we've got Anne.
00:15So what's been happening today at the Village Hall then?
00:17We, well I'll let the expert tell you.
00:19Go on Huw.
00:20We've had half a dozen, half a ton of apples brought to the Village Hall
00:26by all sorts of people around the village of Wrighton.
00:30Yeah.
00:31And we've put it through a scratter and then we've pressed it in the apple press
00:36and we've produced 300 bottles of apple juice.
00:42Wow, you've been busy then.
00:43Yes.
00:44How are your arms? I bet it's a bit manual labour isn't it, getting them pressed is it?
00:49We've had a lot of child labour to help us.
00:51Yeah, just much too fast.
00:55They loved it.
00:56Now I've seen these Celebration of the Apple events over the last few years
01:02and sailing events and stuff.
01:04Where does it come from?
01:06Is this harking back to a celebration of the harvest?
01:10Where does this Celebration of the Apple come from do we think?
01:15Why should we be celebrating the humble apple?
01:18The humble apple is...
01:23An apple tree is present in most people's gardens for starters.
01:29An apple a day keeps the doctor away
01:32and apples are just so abundant sometimes we don't know what to do with them.
01:38So here we are providing, as it were, a service to the community.
01:43They can come along, enjoy themselves
01:46and see how it is possible to make all those apples that they don't know what to do with
01:53into something very enjoyable.
01:56It is a shame isn't it, when you go past a fruit tree
01:58and you just see the fruit on the ground just kind of rotting away and nothing being...
02:02Like you say, there's people with fruit trees
02:05and sometimes they don't know what to do with the fruit
02:08so they just shovel it up into the green bin, which is a shame.
02:12There must be tons ending up in the green bin.
02:15So is this an annual event here? Have you had it here before?
02:19I think it's probably our 10th.
02:21Oh wow.
02:22At least, if not more.
02:23Okay, so you're well established on the apple squeezing circuit.
02:26We know what to do, yes.
02:28Well, you've obviously had a busy day, you're just wrapping up now
02:31so is there a glass of cider waiting at home for you?
02:34There is, yes. I've got some cider from previous years.
02:38How long does it keep then?
02:40The juice that you would make here, how long would that keep?
02:43Well, we've pasteurised it.
02:45A lot of it has been pasteurised.
02:48So ideally, it should keep a year.
02:52Oh wow, okay.
02:54But if it's not been pasteurised, it's lovely fresh anyway
02:59but it will turn into cider.
03:02And are you a fan of the cider?
03:04No.
03:06Not even apple juice, but I...
03:08I only would have over it here, give some special blend.
03:12No, unfortunately not.
03:13Invent a cocktail.
03:15Yeah, you will do. Yeah, there you go.
03:17Apple cake actually, apple cake.
03:18Apple cake, that's your bag, apple cake.
03:21You can make hot spiced cider at Christmas.
03:23That sounds nice, that sounds good.
03:25Well, thank you guys and if people want to get involved
03:28it sounds like you'll be here next year possibly.
03:30We will.
03:31Probably a little earlier next year, October, but yeah.
03:34Thank you, Fex.