Wassail 2024

LIMPSFIELD COMMUNITY ORCHARD WASSAIL 

Sunday 14^th January 2024

• From 4.30pm - Assemble inside Limpsfield British Legion
• 5.30pm - Torchlit procession through the woods to the Orchard where we offer cider, toast and salt to the King Tree to ensure a good harvest. 
• Bring a torch and a mug, also rattles, drums, whistles, tins; anything to make a loud noise & ward off bad spirits!
• Wear footwear suitable for walking through muddy woods. Warm & waterproof clothing - the more colourful, the better!
• Mulled cider & apple juice around the bonfire & a singalong.

Everyone is welcome

This is a family-friendly event. Please label your child with your mobile number. 

Limited parking. Please only bring a car if necessary. 

Donations very welcome to help us cover our costs. 

Annual Tasting Day - September 2023

 

Harvest Tasting Day

Sunday 24th September 2023

2.30pm - 4pm

Join us for our annual tasting day at Limpsfield Community Orchard to taste the crop!

We’re also on the lookout for volunteers for this event. 

• Fruit Tasting Hosts to help visitors taste the different varieties and evaluate them. No specialist knowledge of fruit required. 
• Bakers to make apple cakes to offer our visitors on the day. Perhaps you’ve got a favourite apple treat you’d like to share or have a go at the recipe available on our blog. 
  
  If you are able to help us out on the day, please email us at orclimp@gmail.com - we’d love to hear from you!  

Blossom Viewing - May 2023

We hope you've enjoyed the bonus bank holiday weekend this May and managed to enjoy some sunshine. We've been a little quiet lately but now we're back with a date for your diaries! 

Head down to the Orchard on Sunday 21st May for the Blossom Viewing. Don't miss the wonderful display from our fantastic fruit trees as they start to bloom, it really is quite a sight but don't delay as they don't hang around for too long! 

Wassail 2023

Before we step too firmly into spring, here's a roundup of the Limpsfield Community Orchard Wassail that took place earlier in the year. 

It'll come as no surprise that events like the Wassail take a good deal of time and effort to put together, so we were extremely grateful to Carolle Stent who stepped in to organise this year's Wassail. Thank you Carolle! 

This year we also welcomed our new Wassail Masters, Stephen Rapoport and James Reeves, who both did a wonderful job. All that preparation, research, speech writing and outfit making really paid off! 

Here are some photographs, courtesy of Bob Matthews, from the evening for you to enjoy and here's hoping for a fruitful year ahead. 

🍎🍏 Our new Wassail Masters 🍎🍏 

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🍎🍏  Our new Wassail Masters in their fabulous outfits! 🍎🍏 

🍎🍏  North Downs Drummers 🍎🍏 

🍎🍏 Leading the North Downs Drummers to the Orchard🍎🍏 

🍎🍏 Wonderful volunteers serving apple refreshments 🍎🍏 

🍎🍏 the bonfire 🍎🍏 

Introducing our new Chairman

We hope those of you who were able to join us for the Wassail had a wonderful time. There will be a round-up on the blog especially for that in due course but for now, please join us in welcoming our new Chairman, Will Turner. 

Here he is, under the expert eye of Helen Ellson, getting to grips with some pruning. This essential winter trim ensures light reaches all parts of the tree and good air flow through the canopy, hopefully resulting in better crops and fewer pests and diseases.