Visit to Seedsavers • Cuairt ar Seedsavers
We visited Seedsavers in Scariff to help with the apple harvest.
Seedsavers grow old varieties af fruit and vegetables. We looked after four apple trees: Kilkenny Pearmain, Ballyvaughan Seedling,
Gibbon’s Russet Oak and Uncle John’s Cooker.
First we collected the windfalls and sorted the apples into labelled boxes. The good apples were for juicing and the damaged apples went to the neighbour’s pigs. We weeded the trees. We picked apples to look at and taste. The apples made a good snack.
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We walked in the forest and examined the leaves and fruit and bark of native trees. The old Irish names of the letters of the alphabet were the names of trees – D is dair, B is beith.
Juicing the apples was fun and the juice was delicious. There was enough for the whole school. We saved pumpkin seeds in the poly-tunnel, and saw lumpers, which were the type of potatoes in use in Ireland at the time of the famine.
It was a great day at Seedsavers.
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Seedsavers – A Poem
I love apples,
They’re lovely and sweet.
There were all sorts of different apples there,
Like Gibbon’s Russet which is red and green,
The cider apple Bloody Butcher,
The cooking appleBallyvaughan Seedling,
The large red Uncle John’s Cooker,
The delicious Kilkenny Pearmain.