{"id":7911,"date":"2014-08-28T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2014-08-28T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:40:54","slug":"family-fun-at-the-armagh-bramley-apple-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/08\/family-fun-at-the-armagh-bramley-apple-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Family fun at the Armagh Bramley Apple Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

With cookery demonstrations on the Flogas kitchens, cocktail making by Viva bar\u2019s mixologist, top quality street food and an artisan producers village, Cider Makers\u2019 Row with delicious local ciders and apple juices, live music, children\u2019s activities with the Navan Centre\u2019s Educational Department, a fascinating insight into the relationship between honey bees and apple orchards with a real beehive on the Ulster Beekeepers\u2019 Association stand, plus, of course, Northern Ireland\u2019s three EU PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) status foods all together for the first time ever \u2013 there\u2019s plenty to see, do and entertain at the Armagh Bramley Apple Festival next weekend.<\/h3>\n
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Pictured at the launch of the Armagh Bramley Apple Festival, being held at the Shambles Market Yard, Armagh on Saturday 6th September from 10am until 6pm are (l-r) John Beggs, Northern Ireland Fruit Growers\u2019 Association (NIFGA); Dean Coppard from Uluru Restaurant in Armagh, who will be on of the chefs cooking Armagh Bramley Apple dishes on the Flogas kitchens during the day; Hamilton Loney, NIFGA Chairman; Miss Armagh Bramley Apple, Kara Morgan; Kathy Rafferty, Lord Mayor of Armagh; James Wright from Viva Bar in Armagh, who will be making Armagh Bramley Apple cocktails and mocktails at the Festival; Dermot Morgan, NIFGA Secretary; and Rhonda McDowell from the Armagh Bramley Development Programme.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being held at the Shambles Market Yard in Armagh City on Saturday 6th<\/sup> September from 10am until 6pm, the free-to-attend Armagh Bramley Apple Festival promises to be a great day out for young and old alike.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know much (or anything at all) about what PGI means for a food product, you can learn all about it at the Festival, where Armagh Bramley Apple, Comber Early Potatoes and Lough Neagh Eels representatives will be on hand to give you the inside track on what makes these three iconic Northern Irish products unique and special \u2013 there\u2019ll even be water tanks with live eels!<\/p>\n

So make sure you put the date in your diary and come along – and bring your very best Armagh Bramley Apple Tart with you too, as you could be walking away with a fabulous hamper of Armagh Bramley goodies if your tart is deemed \u2018best in show\u2019 in a blind tasting. There\u2019ll even be a bag of Neill\u2019s Flour for every entrant.\u00a0 All you need to do is deliver your tart to the Armagh Bramley Apple display stand before 4pm, provide your name and contact number and then go enjoy the Festival until judging of the Neill\u2019s Flour Best Armagh Bramley Apple Tart takes place at 4.30pm \u2013 simples!<\/p>\n

The Armagh Bramley Apple Festival is part of Armagh City & District Council\u2019s Armagh Bramley Development Programme, which is funded through the Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (NIRDP) and administered through Southern Organisation for Action in Rural Areas (SOAR), the Festival is set to showcase Armagh Bramley Apples in their rightful place at the heart of the County\u2019s historic tradition of culinary apple production and as an iconic Northern Irish food product that we should all take more pride in and celebrate for its unique characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With cookery demonstrations on the Flogas kitchens, cocktail making by Viva bar\u2019s mixologist, top quality street food and an artisan producers village, Cider Makers\u2019 Row with delicious local ciders and apple juices, live music, children\u2019s activities with the Navan Centre\u2019s Educational Department, a fascinating insight into the relationship between honey bees and apple orchards with … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}