Typically, October 21 or the next weekend to this date in England spent the day Apple (Apple Day) - an annual event dedicated to apples, orchards and local attractions, which are constructed on the initiative of the charity Common Ground in 1990.
organizers believe that the day of an apple - a celebration and demonstration of the diversity and richness of nature, as well as an incentive to sign and to the fact that we are able to influence the changes taking place around them.Idea of the Day is the apple - the symbol of physical, cultural and genetic diversity, which people should not forget.
the Day of the apple can see and try hundreds of different varieties of apples, and many of the available varieties are not sold in retail stores.Employees nurseries offer to buy rare varieties of apple trees.Often involved in the celebration of apples ID service, which will determine what kind of apple you brought out of the garden.And with the "apple doctor" can discuss all issues apple of your garden.
During the festival offers many apple dishes and drinks - from apple pies, and fruit and vegetable seasonings chutney (chutney) to apple juice and cider.Most are demonstrating hot and cold dishes from apples.Sometimes experts give lessons pruning and shaping of the crown, as well as grafting apple trees are very popular variety of games, archery over the apples and "apple" story.
On the day there is a contest for the longest strip of peel (The Longest Peel Competition), which is obtained in the purification of the apple.The contest is held for manual cleaning of the apple, and to clean using machines or other devices.
longest apple peel is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.A record of the world record reads the record for the longest apple peel neoborvavshuyusya owned American Kathy Walfer, which cleans an apple for 11 hours 30 minutes and peel length of 52 meters 51 centimeters.The record was established on October 16, 1976 in New York.
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