Apple Days are popular across the country, centred on bringing people together to celebrate the countryside. Now a small group of supporters of the charity, Green Horizons, are organizing their first Apple Day in Cottingham on Sunday 28th September.

From 12noon to 4pm, there will be family fun, crafts, plants and produce stalls at Cottingham Village Hall Playing Fields. There will be a Cider Corner with National Trust activities, apple press from Stamford Community Orchard and Rockingham Forest Cider.  You can feast on pork and apple baps and cream teas and there is also a scrarecrow competition.  Rutland Morris will be performing at 2pm and 3pm.  Green Horizons aims to help young people with autism develop skills and confidence through horticulture and animal husbandry. The group of parents, who all have one or more children on the autism spectrum, is in the process of transforming an empty field on Mill Road in Cottingham into a productive space in which the children can develop their agricultural skills. In this new space, the children can create allotments plots, grow herbs, vegetables & fruit, plant flowers as well as tend and care for a pony and a donkey.

Green Horizons has already won the support of Corby MP Andy Sawford, who is very impressed with the project. The world can become narrower and less welcoming for children who will struggle to find conventional employment. Green Horizons will provide a more productive future for these children, in ways that they will find fulfilling. Green Horizons is applying for grants to pay for an access track to be made and for essentials such as a toilet, water supply and a cabin in which to learn skills such as willow weaving. The group is keen to hear from anyone who can help demonstrate skills and donate seeds and old garden tools.

If you can help, please contact Jan and Andy Mears.

Green Horizons

Mill Road, Cottingham, LE16 8ZP

Tel: 01536 772130

 

Apple Day in Cottingham

Apple Day in Cottingham

Apple Day in Cottingham

Apple Day in Cottingham