Twenty of the Best Things about the Salt Spring Apple Festival

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Website: saltspringapplefestival.org

Sunday, Sept 29. 2019 is the date of the 2019 Apple Festival

 

THIS IS WHY WE CALL SALT SPRING ISLAND ‘APPLE HEAVEN’. Salt Spring Island, BC grows over 500 apple varieties and at the 2018 Apple Festival, at Fulford Hall, we displayed 430 apple varieties arranged […]

The Salt Spring Island Apple Festival Poster now Available

A CELEBRATION OF THE APPLE DIVERSITY OF SALT SPRING ISLAND, BC- – The Salt Spring Island Apple Festival Poster. This beautiful poster features 60 of the favourite apple grown on Salt Spring Island, as selected by the growers here. These apples are all hand painted by Adrienne Aikens, a Victoria watercolour artist, painting while holding […]

Great News: Internatio​nal Seed Saving- Bursary Awarded to Erin Harper

The Salt Spring Island Apple Festival has awarded Erin Harper a $600 educational bursary to help her on her trip to India. Not only will she be teaching, but also learning. VERY EXCITING.

We wish Erin lots of luck on her trip and it would be great to see a public presentation when she returns.

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2013 Apple Festival – Sunday, Sept 29th

After cancelling the Apple Festival in 2012, due to a weather related crop failure, we are very excited to get it back on track in 2013 on Sunday, Sept 29th

Farmers are energized by the thought of NEXT YEAR. It keeps them going, planning, thinking, and acting to make this next year better.

The only […]

TREE FROGS ENJOYING MY WATER BARRELS.

Nearing the end of this very dry summer, I have noticed that the tree frogs have loved being in our water barrels scattered throughout the orchard. In the photo below, there were 5 in this barrel, and so when I was filling the barrel, they hopped onto this pail that was slowly turning in […]

The People’s Choice Award for Apples 2012

I do not have many apples for sale this week, and so will NOT BE AT Moss St Market tomorrow, Sat Sept. 15th. I guess I get to sleep in then.

There are just not many early ripening apples ready this week, possibly because early ripening, often means also an early blossom and therefore a […]

The Salt Spring Farm Tour steps into Apple Festival's Shoes....

The famed Apple Festival is cancelled this year! The Salt Spring Farm Tour is stepping in to provide continuity and context, with a self-guided tour of Salt Spring Island’s finest farms and gardens. Saturday, September 29th and Sunday, September 30th, release your inner locovore! Join visitors on an ecological, agricultural, gastronomic odyssey through Salt Spring’s […]

We are going to CANCEL the 2012 Salt Spring Island Apple Festival due to weather related poor apple crops.

We are going to CANCEL the 2012 Salt Spring Island Apple Festival due to weather related poor apple crops.

This is not the type of news that is easy, but in canvassing the main growers of apples on SSI, it is apparent that the crop of apples this year is greatly reduced due not only […]

Puppy Love...

Three great iPhotos of new puppies, Minx and Farley, who are kept in the fenced area, near the house, until they stop chasing chickens. They are getting better!

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Minx and Farley

Minx and Farley

Minx and Farley

GARTER SNAKES IN OUR GREENHOUSE -SUMMER 2012

These small garter snakes love our greenhouse for the heat and the dryness. Often they mass together, touching each other and entwined amongst each other. In some of these photos, it take a while to figure out how many snakes there actually are in the photo. The diversity in colour patterns is so amazing. […]