On a VERY! wet and windy day in High Spen, we planted our Greenpeace apple tree....managed to get a Cox's Orange Pippin on the right rootstock for the type of soil and climate in the North and it looked like a fine specimen...
Lots of apple fun was had...Ingrid provided a fab poem for the occassion
Who planted this old apple tree?
The children of some distant day;
This to same aged man may say;
And gazing on its mossy stem;
The grey haired man shall answer them;
'lovers of this land and earth ,
born in the times when they dared hope
For a future with clean water, air and health
So that all can enjoy the apple tree.'
Despite the weather, we had a really good day with hot soup and freshly pressed apple juice, home made cake, scones, tarts and toffee apples. We all planted apple pips in home made toilet tube pots and tested our apple knowledge with a quiz. A big thank you to the Hop Garden Community Allotment for letting us plant our tree there and we hope it provides fruit for the community for many a year to come.
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