Apple Day in Oswestry.

Shropshire Star

1 year ago

It was a celebration of the humble apple in Oswestry today.

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00:00Ronini, how are you? I'm good, thank you.

00:03Special day here, Apple Day in Oswestry. Yeah, that's right.

00:08What's it all about? Go on. It's a crop which is Cambrian Railway's orchard project.

00:18Oh, the railways? Yeah.

00:20Okay, they've got their own orchard?

00:22Well, we have the land, he says, and we have use of the land. We've been there since 2012.

00:32Okay, so 2012 there was no orchard and you planted it up from...

00:36Yeah, we planted it up from scratch. It was cleared and it was planted in two stages.

00:45The first stage was the standards and then a couple of years later we planted the cordons and the espaliers and things.

00:54Are they types of apples? What are they?

00:56They're types of growing apples. They're types of trees. The standards are from the trees.

01:02And the cordons are sort of cut. They're grown on a slant.

01:09They're pruned in such a way that the apples will grow on short spurs off the trunk.

01:23So what's at the orchard? Is it all about apples or is it the different stuff?

01:27We've got a few pears and a few plums.

01:30So how many different types of apples do you reckon you've got growing there?

01:33A lot, a lot.

01:35So all this on the stall here today has come from there?

01:38Every single one, yeah.

01:39Fantastic. So who looks after the orchard then?

01:42Well, we do. We're all volunteers.

01:45How many volunteers do you reckon you have looking after it?

01:47Maybe about ten. But it's been difficult recently with volunteers.

01:53But we've just had a new cohort of volunteers, which is lovely.

01:58So you're always after more, are you?

02:00Always after more, when they're on a Friday morning.

02:02So if people want to find out more, have you got a Facebook page or anything like that?

02:06We have got an Instagram page.

02:08How can people find that? What do they put in?

02:10It's Oswestry Community Orchard across.

02:15Fantastic. Well, it looks fantastic on the table.

02:18I bet you have a lovely blush of blossom, don't you, in the orchard there in the spring?

02:23Yeah, it's very pretty.

02:25And what a lovely way to kind of come together as a community, really.

02:28All over apples and blossom.

02:30Yeah, we have fun.

02:33Any particular favourite apple that's on display here today?

02:37Personally, I like the Adam's Pear Mane.

02:41So what's so nice about that one, would you say, then?

02:44Well, it's got a really nice flavour and you can see the shape of it.

02:51That's an apple, then?

02:52Yeah, sorry.

02:53I was going to say, it does look pear-shaped, doesn't it?

02:55Yeah.

02:57Interesting.

02:59This one's nice. Captain Kidd.

03:01I love the names of some of these.

03:03Captain Kidd.

03:04Yeah.

03:05Ashmead's Kernel over there, that's a nice one.

03:08Great stuff.

03:09Are there any apples that are named after Oswestry?

03:13Sorry, Shropshire, like Shropshire Towns or Shropshire People?

03:16Sweeney-num-per-eye.

03:18Yeah.

03:19And what else is there? Shropshire Lady's Finger.

03:22Shropshire Lady's Finger.

03:24Bridgewood Chippin is one of those.

03:26Is it Bridgewood Chippin?

03:27Ah.

03:28Yeah, that's the one.

03:29I'll look at that.

03:30That looks lovely.

03:31Bridgewood Chippin.

03:32That's specific origin to Ludlow, then, that one?

03:35Yes, Bridgewood is a town village.

03:37Oh, wow.

03:38I'm learning something new here.

03:40Well, thank you very much for inviting us down to your apple stall.

03:54We're just videoing for the Shropshire Star.

03:57How are you getting on there?

03:58Enjoying?

03:59Enjoying?

04:00It's funny, isn't it, how many different types of apples there are?

04:03We just kind of tend to think of Granny Smith's and Golden Delicious, don't we, really?

04:07No, it's supermarkets.

04:09Yeah, yeah, that's the problem with them, yeah.

04:11So what one have you tried there?

04:13That one.

04:14That one.

04:15So we've tried a, what's that, a Charlie's?

04:18Charles Ross.

04:19A Charles Ross.

04:20So how's the Charles Ross going down?

04:22Very nice.

04:23Very nice, yeah.

04:24Good stuff.

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