{"id":4873,"date":"2011-10-15T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2011-10-15T19:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:18:34","slug":"apple-day-at-south-abingdon-childrens-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"Apple Day &#8211; at South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101507.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nNicola Blackwood, MP for Abingdon, and Mike Badcock, Mayor of Abingdon, were there at the Apple Day run by <a href=\"http:\/\/carboncutters.blogspot.com\/\">Abingdon Carbon Cutters<\/a>, and the South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101506.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nNicola planted a representative tree as a symbolic start for a future orchard and forest at Caldecott School.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101503.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere were a number of stalls at the event&#8230; Ruth Ward was there with her book &#8216;A Harvest of Apples&#8217; and a display of lots of different sorts of apples. As well as apple folklore, and history, her book contains lots of apple recipes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101501.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere was Grow Your Own Allotment advice, from a lady who runs some training allotments on Peachcroft farm. Email on the board in the picture (gyoveg at hotmail.com). And there was a representative from <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190904003050\/http:\/\/www.draytonroadallotments.org.uk:80\/\">Drayton Road Allotments.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101509.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere was Abingdon honey for sale from Virginia Arnott, beekeeper of Abingdon (v.arnott at ntlworld.com.) You can also get Abingdon honey from Radley Road bees &#8211; on sale at Added Ingredients, for they were there too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101504.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nBut the main business of the day was apples&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101505.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\njuicing them<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101508.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Day\" \/><br \/>\nand drinking the juice. TV cameras, for BBC Local News, were there too and here is the link to the video story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-15327064\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-15327064<\/a>\u00a0saying how the people of Abingdon wanted to reintroduce more Heritage apples with a community orchard\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicola Blackwood, MP for Abingdon, and Mike Badcock, Mayor of Abingdon, were there at the Apple Day run by Abingdon Carbon Cutters, and the South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre. Nicola planted a representative tree as a symbolic start for a future orchard and forest at Caldecott School. There were a number of stalls at the event&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,77,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups","category-fruit","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}