Borough Market Celebrates The 2,500 Varieties Of British Apples With 10th Apple Day

Borough Market's Apple Day returns for its 10th year on 21st October. The day celebrates the 2,500 varieties of apples with a range of activities to suit all members of the family including; a tasting table of old, an Apple Doctor, a specially created story orchard and apple fans from the animal world – including pigs from Hackney City Farm.

No apple celebration would be complete without food, and chef Kathy Slack will be cooking up a range of delicious apple and harvest themed dishes, whilst Borough Market’s traders will be offering apple focused goods including apple biscuits, apple cake and cider from the New Forest.

There will also be a celebration of ancient seasonal customs with music, songs and performance by local historical theatre group the Lion’s Part. The ‘October Plenty’ procession will begin at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and culminate at Borough Market. Led by the Berry Man, the Autumn incarnation of the original Green Man, who is decked with wild fruits and foliage and carries an apple tree, the procession also features a huge Corn Queene effigy heavy with 'Plenty' - wheat, barley, apples, root vegetables and foliage from Borough Market - which will be dismantled and ceremoniously thrown to the crowd. They will also perform a heroic tale entitled ‘There be monsters’.