Major apple and pear events from Nov 25 on

(scroll down for 2025 past events)

Please note that we will update this events calendar throughout the year so please revisit it to get the latest news about events. For further details check out the ‘Full Event Listing with Details’ by scrolling down beneath the ‘Events Overview’. If you are interested in joining or helping at an event please email secretary@marcherapple.net
For ‘Members Only’ events, please Join the Marcher Apple Network!  We look forward to meeting you!

Events Overview from November 2025 on

15th Nov          AGM, Ludlow: Members Only

11th Dec          NEW! Winter Webinar 1: “On the trail of a rare pear”, with Wade Muggleton, Macher Apple Network: Members only

15th Jan   Winter Webinar 2: Fruit DNA,  with Dr Matthew Ordidge, Department of Crop Science, University of Reading: Members only

13th Feb    Winter Webinar 3: Biodiversity in traditional orchards, with Steve Oram, People’s Trust for Endangered Species: Members only

12th Mar  Winter Webinar 4: Fruit ID Database with Peter Laws, Fruit ID: Members only

28th Mar  Marcher Apple Network Grafting Course, 10am to 2pm at Nash Village Hall, Shropshire – see Courses

Full Event Listing with Details from November 2025 on

15th Nov          AGM, Ludlow: Members Only

Our AGM will be held at The Ludlow Mascall Centre, Ludlow, Shropshire, followed, we are thrilled to announce, by a not-to-be-missed session with Liz Copas who will lead an introduction, identification and tasting ‘workshop session’ on the four core types of cider apples, with samples from the West Country, Herefordshire and surrounds.

Liz Copas has been a Cider Pomologist at Long Ashton Research Station and an advisor for the National Association of Cider Makers. Her work has taken her to Herefordshire, Somerset and Dorset, She now works as a consultant for Bristol University’s apples genomics project and is the author of: Cider Apples – The New Pomona and The Lost Orchards: Rediscovering the Forgotten Cider Apple of Dorset (with Nick Poole)

See full details about the AGM on our AGM 2025 webpage.

11th Dec          NEW! Winter Webinar 1: “On the trail of a rare pear”, with Wade Muggleton, Macher Apple Network: Members only

19:00-20:30  online. To book a place and receive a link to the webinar email secretary@marcherapple.net

This is MAN’s first ever evening webinar – and one of a series of Marcher Apple Network Winter Webinars! Join MAN member and author of the The Orchard Book, The Apples and Orchards of Worcestershire and The Worcester Black Pear

Wade will recount the story of how his research into one particular pear, the Worcester Black, lead to to an intriguing piece of detective work and the whole subject of how pears are such an intriguing and under studied area of fruit history.

2026 Events

15th Jan   Winter Webinar 2: Fruit DNA,  with Dr Matthew Ordidge, Department of Crop Science, University of Reading: Members only

More details to follow very soon.

13th Feb    Winter Webinar 3: Biodiversity in traditional orchards, with Steve Oram, People’s Trust for Endangered Species: Members only

More details to follow very soon.

12th Mar  Winter Webinar 4: Fruit ID Database with Peter Laws, Fruit ID: Members only

More details to follow very soon.

28th Mar  Marcher Apple Network Grafting Course, 10am to 2pm at Nash Village Hall, Shropshire