Tring’s Own Apple Fayre is a celebration of seasonal community celebration of food, environment and culture throughout October. This year’s programme is packed with events throughout October (and before and after!!) to promote local food, learn about local wildlife, connect with the season, support local shops and enjoy community. Download the program and come along!
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SCROLL DOWN for ALL the details of each of the exciting events!
Follow the Apple Trail Around Tring!
An apple tree can live for as long as 100 years unless it is damaged by living creatures or weather. Do you know which creatures help or harm apple trees? Follow the trail and discover the apple tree’s friends and enemies!
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The Apple Workshop, Mead Farm, Wilstone - September, October and 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.
Folk improvisation matinee performance
Sun 20 September - 2pm
St Martha’s Church,
Park Street, Tring HP23 6BP
An afternoon of free-folk improvisation from Tring’s Own Mossy Tapes, with Sullow and Resonant Bodies.
Soaring free-folk improvisation from Sullow and Resonant Bodies with support from Bogular Rot and their dungeon-drone experiments. More information to to book: https://mossytapes.bandcamp.com/
Mabon – an autumn equinox gathering
Sun 20 September, 5.30 – 7.30pm (sunset 7pm)
Jeacock’s Orchard
The 2026 autumn equinox in the UK is on Weds 23 Oct at 1.05am… but as most of us will be asleep at that time, why not awaken your senses with a spiritual celebration of the changing seasons today? Join a late-afternoon gathering to mark the changing seasons. Meditation, music and walk a labyrinth in the orchard, symbolising our own journeys on this earth.
Bring some food to share afterwards.
Numbers limited – please confirm your place:
Mossy Tapes presents Jon Collin
Wednesday 23 September, 7.30pm
St Martha’s Church, Park Street, Tring HP23 6BP
Celebrate the autumn equinox with another grounding Mossy Tapes gig.
Jon Collin makes DIY music, sound and art using stringed instruments, long tones, found objects, field recordings, friction and accidental harmony. Immerse yourself in an evening of drone explorations with Jon Collin and Glockenspiel at St Martha’s.
Fritters at Tring Farmers’ Market
Saturday 26 September, 9am – 1pm
High Street Special (Church Square)
Try some freshly made apple fritters straight from this year’s crop. (Assuming there is one!?)
The sheep love them!
Autumn Music Session
Sunday 27 September, 3 – 5pm
The Bell, 37 High Street, Tring HP23 5AA
Tring’s Green Man Banned host their regular session led by a scratch band of errant musos keeping themselves and everybody else awake.
Sustainable Specials at the King’s Arms
Saturday 3 / Sunday 4 October
The King’s Arms, King Street, Tring HP23 6BE
Celebrate seasonal food at the King’s Arms.
As part of the Apple Fayre, the much-loved KA are creating their specials menu from locally sourced, seasonal produce where possible – foraged, found, filched, or supplied by local farm shops, farms or allotments. Come along and taste what Sustainable Specials Menu delights are on offer using the fruits of the earth!
Apple Day! Jeacock’s Orchard
Sunday 4 October, 10am – 4pm
Jeacock’s Orchard, Cow Lane, Tring, HP23 5NS
Jeacock’s Orchard is Tring’s Own (officially listed) WWI smallholding! Saved for the nation in 2004, it still produces apples, bees, biodiversity and fun! Despite a poor crop this year, there will be loads on offer. Buy your own heritage apples from Cam Valley Orchards, press your own freshly squeezed apple juice, buy local cider, local honey and preserves plus antiques and other craft stalls. Plenty to do and see: the Natural History Museum will have
objects to handle; see what’s found in the moth trap; plus an RSPB stall and an ant safari. With music, poetry workshop, puppet show and refreshments from local producers – pasture-fed burgers! Alternatively, you could always try maypole dancing or frog racing!
Please walk if possible; limited parking spaces available opposite at Pendley Manor. The ground is very bumpy (ant hills), take care!
Bats, moths, glow worms and things that go bump in the night
A talk by Steve Thompson
Thursday 8 October 7.30-9pm
At Dunsley Cafe & Art Collective, Dunsley Farm HP23 6HA Tring
A fascinating on-hour illustrated talk into the wildlife that we rarely see, but we know is out there!
This is a FREE EVENT, no need to book – donations for Wildlife Trusts are welcome.
Appley craft – drop-in
Friday 9 October, 3 – 7pm
At Dunsley Cafe & Art Collective,
Dunsley Farm HP23 6HA Tring
Prepare for the Apple Parade with some appley craft. No need to book, just drop in!
£5 per maker/child (plus accompanying adult)
Tring’s Own Apple Fayre Parade and Special Farmers’ Market
Saturday 10 October
This is one of the Apple Fayre highlights, don’t miss it!
Tring’s Own Apple Cart procession, 10.30 – 11am
Tring’s Own carnival of beasts meets the Wycombe Worm! Morris dancing at various spots. School scarecrows. Green Men and Women! Plus music sessions at the Bell.
The procession leaves the King’s Arms at 10.30am to the Old Market Site, Brook Street.
Farmers’ Market, 9am – 2pm
The Farmers’ Market will take place in the Old Market Site, Brook Street.
Support your local producers. Apples and other fruity-themed produce plus school ‘scarecrow’ judging and Morris dancing.
Harvest Festival Service
St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Tring
Sunday 11 October, 10 – 11am
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.
Harvest Lunch
Sunday 11 October, 12.30 – 2.30pm
Tring Parish Hall, St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Churchyard, Tring
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Celebrate harvest with friends in the community. Eat, drink and be merry-ish.
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Please book in advance:​
People’s Emergency Briefing film
Thursday 15 October, 6.30pm
High Street Baptist Church, HP23 4AB
What’s happening with climate and nature, and what does it mean for everyday life in the UK? Join us for a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing – an eye-opening 50-minute film bringing together leading UK scientists and experts with the latest evidence and why it matters.
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Please book:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sustainabletring/2313002
New Moon Morris music session
Thursday 15 October, 8 – 11pm
Red Lion, Marsworth, nr Tring
Music session led by a scratch band of errant musos keeping themselves and everybody else awake.
Come along and enjoy!
Sustainable Specials at the King’s Arms
Saturday 17 / Sunday 18 October
The King’s Arms, King Street, Tring HP23 6BE
Celebrate more seasonal food at the King’s Arms. As part of the Apple Fayre, the much-loved KA are creating their specials menu from locally sourced, seasonal produce where possible – foraged, found, filched, or supplied by local farm shops, farms or allotments. Come along and taste what Sustainable Specials Menu delights are on offer using the fruits of the earth!
Don’t Despair – Repair!
Saturday 17 October, 10.30am – 1pm
Tring Repair Café, High Street Baptist Church Hall
Sustainable Tring’s Repair Café volunteers have skills to repair all sorts of items – even better than recycling! Tring’s Repair Café is on every third Saturday of the month.
Folk Improvisation Matinee Performance
Sunday 18 October, 2pm
St Martha’s Church, Park Street, Tring
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Mossy’s autumn season closes with an afternoon of mystical improvisations from Fenland Drone Workshop and Moth.
Crumbs! Tring’s own fruity bake-off
Saturday 24 October 10.30am
Tring Farmers’ Market, Church Square, Tring
Present your wares, if you dares! There are two recipes to follow:
Adults: Tring Dumpling (Tring’s own version of the Clanger)
Children (under 16yrs): Apple and marmalade cakes (individualise your bake with a decoration of your choice)
Use local ingredients where possible (e.g. Heygates or Ford End Watermill flour, locally grown apples). Bring your bake to the market to be judged by the Mayor and the Apple Fayre judges. You may win a cake… Entry is free.
Dance the old sun-down!
Sun 25 October, 4 – 5pm
Pitstone Hill, Stocks Rd, Aldbury,
Tring HP23 5RX, UK
New Moon Morris welcome the ‘sun-up’ on 1 May and now say goodbye at Summer’s end. Join in with this new tradition of dancing the ‘sun-down’ during Samhain at the end of October to welcome in the winter. 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.
Autumn Music Session
Sunday 27 September, 3-5pm
The Bell, 37 High Street, Tring HP23 5AA
Tring’s Green Man Banned host their regular session led by a scratch band of errant musos keeping themselves and everybody else awake.
Biodiversity in a bottle!
Date to be confirmed
Apple pressing demonstration 10am – 4pm, Natural History Museum, Tring
Have a go at making freshly squeezed apple juice the traditional way. Watch out for maggots, but they are free.
Apple and Autumn craft sessions at Dunsley Cafe & Art Collective
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Date to be confirmed
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For more info visit:
Tring Book Festival !
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King Auk – film premiere about the story of the Papa Westray Great Auk
Thursday 29 October 7.30pm
High St Baptist Church
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What's On - Tring Book Festival
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Tring Book Festival !
Dave Goulson - The Bee Spotter’s Guide
Saturday 31 October 1pm
High Street Baptist Church
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Snap Apple Night, All Saints’ Eve, All Hallows’ Eve, or even… Halloween!
Saturday 31 October
The Piggeries, Dunsley Farm, Tring HP23 6HA
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Celebrate the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain at The Piggeries with New Moon Morris. If nothing else scares you, their dancing will!
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For details visit: The Piggeries
Tring Book Festival !
Will Millard - Mapping Britain: The Story of an Island through the Ordnance Survey Archives
Sun 1 November 1.30pm
High Street Baptist Church
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Tring Book Festival !
Gordon Buchanan – In the Hide: How the Natural World Saved My Life
Thursday 12 November 7.30pm
The Dembe Theatre (formerly The Court Theatre)
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