Forth Valley Food Links

Visitors will be able to visit the 'village' of stalls inside the store that will provide information and advice for anyone wanting to plant or manage orchards.

Among the free activities and information on offer are:

• Orchard Advice Clinic – Come and talk to the orchard experts, including Appletreeman himself, Andrew Lear,  who will be on-hand to answer any questions about how to manage your orchard, or how to go about planning and planting new ones
• Fruit Identification – One of Scotland’s foremost fruit experts, Willie Duncan, will have a display of fruit, and will be available to help identify your fruit if you would like to bring this along with you
• Fruit juicing and tasting – Try your hand at crushing fruit and pressing the juice.  Bring your surplus fruit along if you have some, but there’ll be plenty available if you don’t.
• Fruit Recipe Book - If you have any fruit recipes, then bring those too, and we will make a fruit recipe book
• Children's activities  - Join well-known orchard enthusiast, environmental education expert, and former head teacher, Margaret Miller,  for a variety of hands-on and fun activities to learn about orchards and their benefits
• The History of Orchards in Forth Valley display – Learn about the fascinating history of Forth Valley’s orchards
• Orchard training & workshops – Sign up to training and workshop events to run throughout the autumn and winter that will look at creating and managing orchards
• Lots more…! Organisations with an interest in orchards will also make their information available to take away.