Apple Day

I am red and round,
I grow on the tree.
All children and adults
Adore eating me.

Apple Day is an annual celebration, of apples and orchards. It’s held on October 21 each year.

Apple Day was initiated by Common Ground in 1990 and has been celebrated in each subsequent year by people organizing hundreds of local events.

Apple is a symbol of physical, cultural and genetic variety.

This day is a way of celebrating and demonstrating that variety and richness matter to a locality and that it is possible to effect change in your place.

The first Apple Day was on October 21, 1990 in Covent Garden, London.

Apple day celebration is something like fair, where you can buy and taste the great variety of apple kinds.

There are many 7000 kinds of apples in the world.

Besides you can buy sprouts and take good advice how to plant and grow them in your own garden.

You can taste delicious dishes and drinks with apples and take recipes.

Various activities, games and competitions are popular on this day.

The Longest Peel Competition is the most popular. Guinness World Record is held by Kathy Walfer who peeled an apple in 11 hours 30 minutes with a peel length of 52.51m on 16 October 1976.

An old tradition is the English farmers choose the oldest apple-tree sing ballads and dance round the tree.

Apple Day is a funny, kind and generous holiday.

Thank you for your attention!

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