Journée de la pomme

IT'S POM'ATTITUDE!
The Croqueurs de pommes Auxois-Morvan are preparing a great event for us this year. After several years of dearth, the Semur orchard has lived up to its promise. So much so that a team of happy apple-crunchers collected a lot of apples, pressed them with the help of the Morvan Nature Park workshop and produced a quality vintage for sale this Sunday.

As long as there are apples...
... the Croqueurs will be there! For their exhibition of apples and other local fruit, quince, pears, medlars, etc., they have brought together a marvellous profusion of varieties with great taste and flavour. Fruit identification is a perilous and difficult exercise, and will bring together a few enthusiasts to try and find the lost names of the fruits in your orchards. Once you've seen the huge variety of our local fruit, you'll realise that, while some fruits are quite emblematic, like the star api, others will remain under the flame of the unknown apple. We're a long way from Granny Smiths and Pink Lady apples: here, it's our terroir that speaks for itself, and our orchards of yesteryear are surprisingly modern. Would you like to plant, renovate or replant with an Auxois and Morvan approach that respects nature? These amateurs, all volunteers, are here to help. They'll introduce you to grafting techniques and suggest that you join the winter indoor sessions to really learn the art of grafting, the physiological stages of the tree, the care they require and the ecological environment they can be given for good pollination. As for the well-being that their trees and orchards bring them, just look at the smiles on their faces when they talk about it.

Nature stands for all the senses
Alongside the exhibition of local fruit, this year the focus is on the richness of nature, with perhaps even a few other botanical surprises in store.
Alongside an exhibition of nature photos by member photographer Chloé Duloquin, a good deal of space is reserved for the Athénas Centre, SOS Faune sauvage. The Athénas Centre is based near Lons-le-Saunier but covers the whole of Burgundy Franche-Comté. Thanks to a network of volunteers, the Centre is able to collect, care for and then release back into the wild wildlife that has been injured, suffered an accident or fallen from its nest. Julie will be on hand to explain how to save their lives.
At 11am and 3pm, there will be two video conferences on the black stork, a species that nests in our area and that Marie, another member, followed by microlight to Africa during its migrations.
Always under the sign of Nature, sometimes ungrateful, sometimes prolific, you will find apples from the association's orchard, guaranteed without treatment of any kind, members' sales of fruit and vegetables, small fruit plants, shrubs, fruit trees, jewels of nature and also Auxois honey.
For the pleasure of your taste buds: LA BUVETTE, Croqueurs apple juice, members' pastries.

Contact: Arnaud Bourge, Chairman, 0615644391 Eveline Maufoux 0678027328