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The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
It's absolutely fabulous. So this is our third year and every year it changes. And this year the footfall has been absolutely incredible. And we're just... delighted to see so many more young families here with their kids because really sustainability is all about the next generation, isn't it? I mean, you know, us lot, we'll do a bit and then we'll be gone.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
But it's just great to see so many younger people here and getting involved and looking at, you know, where apple juice comes from, how it's made, looking at things you can make with it and just joining in. Yes, it's a great community event.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Absolutely, absolutely. And they're free.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
No, no. And that's what we... Somebody was saying, what sort of apples are these? I said, I don't know, but they are all local.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
And Rygate. People are just coming in off the road to this now, which is absolutely fantastic.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
So what happens, they bring their apples, I weigh them, I tell them how many litres of juice that they will get for their apples. They can either follow their apples through the process and get their own juice or they can add their apples to the mass of apples and just buy however many litres they want.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Absolutely, and actually I think an apple cocktail is probably the best.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
They get chucked out.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
We have quality control, so we don't want windfalls. We only want ones that are picked, and we don't want ones that are too diseased or bruised. So, yeah, we do chuck some out.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
All go into the macerator, so it gets macerated, then it gets pressed, and then you get the lovely, lovely juice.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
This is macerating and this is Alan. So he will take the apples, do a bit of quality control, make sure they're OK for consumption, shove them into the macerator, which makes one hell of a noise. And then the pulp comes out and that will go on to the next station, which is where they press and make the juice.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Absolutely, and this is lovely because they're just beautiful machines, aren't they?
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
There's the juice. Good technique there. They are under that cylinder.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Yes, yes.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
It's fabulous.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Probably a good few kilograms before they get into this bit.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
So it's almost five kilograms of apples gives you about two litres of apple juice. How full's the bucket? Oh!
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
It's lovely. It's absolutely lovely, the smell. It's a real autumn smell, isn't it?
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
And so you've got your juice, and this is another press.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
And then we've got a few local people who've got their own presses, which is fabulous. And then we get here to the bottling.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
More likely a cocktail. So there's a few people who've brought enough to follow their own all the way through the process and then they will go home with their own juice, which is lovely.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
So this couple here were very, very keen to have their own juice. Have you still got your little apple flag? Yeah. See, he's got his own juice, which he's waiting to get bottled.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
It was about five kilograms, wasn't it, or something? Seven and a half.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
It is evolved.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
We've got a lovely village hall space. So we've got your knife sharpening guy here. He's been here since nine o'clock and he's just been working flat out and he's going to be here till six, he tells us.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Repairing rather than buying new, so sustainability.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
We've all said, when did you ever get your garden equipment sharpened? And we all said never. So you're talking about 20, 30-year-old, 40-year-old equipment, which he has just sorted, which is fabulous. So it's not going to landfill anymore.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
have got all sorts going on in here we had an apple cake competition we've got claire who runs our forest school doing children's activities with nature resources we've got cake tea
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
pickles we've got greener futures here so every year it's evolving a little bit more and we've got face painters so it's an absolutely you know it's just makes you want to smile doesn't it it does it is such a community event and you are smiling it's it is a big success yeah it's what it's about you know it's not just about sustainability it is also about involving the community and it's worked
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's usually about this time of year, obviously. It's usually after the lie, Apple pressing day. So October, just watch out for information about it and come along.