Apple Day, Jeacock’s Orchard
Sunday 5 October, 10am – 4pm
Cow Lane special! Scrumptious!   
Jeacock’s Orchard celebrates its 20th Apple Day. This officially listed WWI smallholding was saved for the nation in 2004 and still produces apples, bees, biodiversity and fun! Sample a wide variety of heritage apples for sale, direct from the grower, Cam Valley Orchards at Royston. Help press freshly squeezed apple juice, buy local cider, local honey, preserves and antiques; see displays, games, music, a poetry workshop, puppet shows and Mummers. Refreshments from local producers – pasture-fed burgers! A Wildlife Place with the Natural History Museum, Butterfly Conservation, RSPB, an ant safari, and of course the orchard itself. Alternatively, you could always try maypole dancing or frog racing!  

Special Apple Fayre Farmers’ Market 
Saturday 11 October, 9am – 2pm 
Don’t be suspicious…of Golden Delicious…whatever your granny might say! Support your local producers. Apples and other fruity themed produce. School ‘scarecrow’ judging and Morris dancing. 

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Tring’s Own Apple Cart procession! 
Saturday 11 October, 10.30 – 11am 
Follow Tring’s Own Apple Man and Apple Woman; dancing, parade of scarecrows, the Apple Cart, Maypole, Apple Wagon. The procession leaves the Kings Arms at 10.30 am to the Old Market Site, Brook Street.  

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Tring Community Garden, Work party 
Sunday 12 October, 10am – 12Noon
Duckmore Lane allotments
Dig into Sustainable Tring’s gardening session at Duckmore Lane. We’re on the right hand side next to the vehicle entrance in Duckmore Lane. A regular event (every second Sunday of the month), if you would like to help; please bring a hot/cold drink, gloves and a gardening tool of your choice. We also have spare tools at the garden.

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Harvest Festival Service 
Sunday 12 October, 10 – 11am
St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Tring
Celebrate the gathering of harvest and the importance of our food. Join the family Act of Worship with the choir, music, readings and seasonal refreshments.

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Harvest Lunch 
Sunday 12 October, 12.30 – 2.30pm
Tring Parish Hall, St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Churchyard, Tring 
Celebrate harvest with friends in the community. Eat, drink and be merry-ish. Please book in advance here.

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Flour power! Special Apple Fayre Milling 
Sunday 12 October, 2 – 5pm 
Ford End Water Mill, Ivinghoe
Join Chris the millman and his team for the last milling of the season at one of the few remaining working watermills in the country. Take your locally grown wheat grains down to the mill and see what they can be turned into! Local wheat, local milling, local baking. Local food on our doorstep.    
Admission 2 – 4.30pm, milling 2.30 – 4.30pm, water level permitting. Admission prices: Adults, £5; Children (16 and under), free.  

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‘Crabs’ 
Thursday 16 October, 8 – 11pm
Red Lion, Marsworth, near Tring
Music session led by a scratch band of errant musos keeping themselves and everybody else awake. Come along and enjoy!

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Don’t Despair – Repair! 
Saturday 18 October, 10.30am – 1pm  
Tring Repair Café, High Street Baptist Church Hall
Sustainable Tring group volunteers have skills to hopefully repair items – even better than recycling – and way better than filling holes in the ground! One of several across Hertfordshire, Tring’s Repair Cafe here is a regular event on every third Saturday of the month.

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Six Inches of Soil: Film and Panel Discussion 
Wednesday 22 October, Doors 6.45pm for 7.15pm start
All Saints Church
Peggs Lane, off Model Row, Buckland, HP225HX (street parking in Model Row)
We are delighted to be screening the critically acclaimed Six Inches of Soil film, see here – the inspiring story of farmers taking a stand and transforming the way they produce food by improving the health of the soil, reducing the need for industrial fertilisers and enhancing biodiversity. After the film the horticulturalist from Sunnyside Rural Trust and Jonathan Chapman, a regenerative farmer from Bailey Hill Farm Chalfont, will answer questions. The event will take place in the stunning setting of All Saints Church in Buckland. The event is free but please register with glorybushell@gmail.com.

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Tring’s Own Octoberfest! 
Friday – Sunday, 24, 25, 26 October
The Bell
Visit Tring's Own Oktoberfest here at The Bell, for some seasonal and fruity fun, food, drinks and music. 

Crumbs! Tring’s own Fruity Bake-off
Saturday 25 October 10.30am
Tring Farmers’ Market, Church Square, Tring
Present your wares, if you dares! Use local ingredients where possible (e.g. Heygates or Ford End Watermill flour, locally grown fruit) and bring your bake to the market to be judged by Steve and the team from Sandwich Plus. Entry is FREE, please register by emailing info@sandwich-plus.com. Recipe details see here.

    

Dance the Old Sun-down! 
Sun 26 October, 4 – 5pm 
Pitstone Hill
Dancing the ‘sun-up’ to welcome summer on 1 May is an old tradition; dancing the ‘sun-down’ during Samhain in October to say goodbye for another year, isn't! Join a more recent tradition with New Moon Morris here and friends to mark the end of summer. See the sun sink in the west (if it’s not cloudy) and get some funny looks from sheep. Dogs welcome – but only on a lead, of course.  

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Autumn Quiz
Sunday 26 October, 8pm
Robin Hood Pub
Come along with your team or join one on the night! All welcome for this special apple themed quiz.

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Folk at St Martha’s!
Monday 27 October, 7.30pm
Saint Martha's, 14 Chapel St, Tring HP23 6BL 
Mossy Tapes are proud to present Joseph Allred from Tennessee, USA plus special guests and local apple juice! Joseph Allred was born and raised in Tennessee and is on his first European Tour. Commonly connected to American primitive guitar, a multi-instrumentalist and singer whose records have also tapped into veins of rural mysticism, internationally oriented inquisitiveness and idiosyncratically reinterpreted shoegazing. Waltz rhythms present repeatedly, so maybe it’s music for folks who like to dance? Following the idiosyncratic directions associated with the British folk revival, Folk Guitar belies a complexity of sound; what you call it doesn’t matter as much as what it does for you. Book in advance or on the door, tickets £10-12 here. No one turned away for lack of funds.  

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Tring Library Reading Friends Session
Thursday 30 October, 4 – 5pm 
Are you reading anything seasonal? Or local? Poetry? Stories? Novels? Historical? Whatever you are reading, come to the drop-in session and discover a relaxed friendly space in which to share what you have been reading lately, discover new titles and connect with fellow booklovers. 

Biodiversity in a bottle! Apple Pressing Demonstration
Thursday 30 October, 10am – 4pm
Natural History Museum, Tring
Have a go at making freshly squeezed apple juice the traditional way. 

Museum by Torchlight
Thursday 30 October, 5 – 6.30pm 
The Natural History Museum at Tring
Have your torch at the ready, don your best scary animal or ghoulish costume and join us for a spooky time in our galleries. Go exploring in the dark and try to spot what animals are hiding around the corner. Complete our trail challenge, make a spooky animal to take home and get up close to our handling specimens. Fancy a challenge? Why not take on our spooktacular trail for £1. Suitable for ages 5+. Free, pre-booking essential here. 

 

Follow the Appleation Trail!
5-26 Oct
Tring High Street
Puzzles, riddles and jokes - it’s time to have fun! While walking along Tring High Street look at the windows and inside shops, local history museum and the library for answers to the questions! Download your trail map for printing here.

The Apple Workshop, Mead Farm, Wilstone
September, October, November 
Get your own apples pressed into fresh juice. Good-quality apples only, for juicing and pasteurisation. Contact Nigel Nutkins for this year’s prices and opening times. Tel: 01442 825110 for further details. Purchase fine local produce from PE Mead and Sons.