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Apple Day 2025

Enjoy celebrating all things apple at Apple Day 2025 in Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

  • 19th October 2025 - 19th October 2025
  • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Highlights include:

🍎 Apple tasting & sales: many heritage varieties to taste and/or buy (you can purchase with cash or card)

🍎 Apple identification: apple experts from the East of England Apples and Orchards Project will be on hand to identify apples. Bring your unidentified apples along to the team, preferably with stalk and leaf attached to help with accurate identification.

🍎Apple cultivation: expert advice on what to grow, how to plant and prune for a bumper crop.

Plus:

🍏 Apple activities: get crafty with a variety of apple activities in the Schools’ Garden for the young and young-at-heart.

🍂 Free Garden highlight tours: expert guides will take you on themed tours to see some of the seasonal highlights.

🎵 Live entertainment.

🥪 Pop-up food trucks.

🧀Local craft stalls and sales.

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Did you know?

One of the oldest surviving buildings in Cambridge is the Leper Chapel on Newmarket Road. Also known as the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, it dates back to the 12th century and was originally used as a place to isolate victims of leprosy.