Apples Day at Holyrood 2025: Celebrating 16 Years of Orchard work
On 11th September, Holyrood hosted the 16th annual Apples Day, organised by John Hancox of Scottish Fruit Trees. The event brought together growers, educators, and … Read more
SAP Annual meeting 2025- Takeaways
The event brought together producers, cider pressers, academics, and industry professionals for a day of learning, storytelling, and collaboration. Neil Clapperton shared insights from the … Read more
Carse of Gowrie Orchards- People for Pollinators: new project update!
Carse of Gowrie Orchards: People for Pollinators’ is an exciting new project where Buglife will work with Tayside Biodiversity Partnership, Orchard Revival and other partners … Read more
SAP Annual meeting
We are delighted to announce this year SAP- Scottish Apple Producers annual member meeting in our regular venue, Megginch Castle from 10 to 14 hs … Read more
Celebrating our orchards-Winter Wassailing
SAP was happy to host our first event of the year, bringing together the apple community including some of our own apple producers to bless our orchards for the year to come.
Upcoming Apple event!
Upcoming Apple event from Friday 20th of Oct to Sunday 22nd at Kellie Castle & Gardens.
Orchards: Practical Orcharding for a changing planet- book launch!
We are pleased to announce the launch of Andre and Margaret Lear’s book: “Orchards: Practical orcharding for a changing planet”, available in most retail shops … Read more
Orchards: A Practical Guide to Orcharding for a changing planet- Event launch
Orchards… will be launched at the A.K. Bell Library in Perth on Monday 24th November, with a talk and questions and answers, followed by refreshments and book signing. Members of SAP are warmly invited, and are asked in the first instance to email Margaret (margaret.q.lear@gmail.com) so that an official invitation can be sent on to them.
Holyrood Apple Day 2023
Apple day at Holyrood is turning 15 years and is an open invitation to showcase the best of Scottish apples.
Summer Get-together for SAP
Last 15 of July the summer Scottish Apple Producers (SAP) get together for 2023 took place at Megginch Castle in Errol with a record attendance of over 20 members.