A celebration of apples and orchards will be held in Pembroke today (Saturday, October 25).

Apple Day was formed in 1990 and recognises the richness and variety of our local food and culture.

There will be a packed programme of events held at Foundry House, Pembroke’s Community Centre and on the Commons surrounding it.

They will be opened by Peter Davies, The Wales Commissioner for Sustainable Futures, who lives at nearby Amroth.

The activities will include Tom Bean cooking apple fritters on a rocket stove, apple pressing and juice tasting, a children’s Apple Day parade, music, apple bobbing and races, talks and apple stories, as well as demonstrations and advice on planting, grafting, growing apple trees and cooking apples.

There will also be a wide range of local food producers there as well as apple tree nursery Gwynfor Growers and the Tree Fruit Society of Wales.

Apple Day is a community event with local groups Tanyard Youth Project running the café, the Pembroke Wood Turners making things from apple wood, PembTech computer club demonstrating Apple computers and the Pembroke Story with a display about the gardens in the burgage plots of Pembroke.

Pembroke Farmers Market, run by Pembroke 21C Community Association, recently had funding from Environment Wales to purchase a community apple press and equipment. Pembroke 21C has also recently planted a small orchard of heritage apple trees in the community garden it is setting up at the rear of St Oswald’s House, courtesy of Pembrokeshire Housing.