Apple Festival
Apple Festival 2013
Information about our 2013 Apple Festival will be posted here nearer the time. In the meantime, please see below for a taste of what the event has to offer.
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Apple Festival 2012 – Saturday 20th October and Sunday 21st October 2012
Important Information****Apple Festival 2012 - Cancelled****
Given the weather we have had, and the effect that it has had on the car parking fields, rendering them unusable, we have been left with no choice but to take the heart-breaking decision to cancel Apple Festival 2012.
We have serious concerns with regard to public safety, and even more concern that if we refuse car parking to festival goers there will be a danger on the public highway(s).
With rain still falling, and seven hours more rain forecast for Friday, we feel that we would be failing in our duty of care to attendees not to take this action.
Please note: The additional transport arranged with Cuckmere Community Bus and The Big Lemon have also been cancelled.
Please see our Apple Festival photo section for further information and photos.
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Music, dance, fun and feasting in celebration of English apples
Our annual Apple Festival is one of the most popular events in Sussex, attended by thousands of people each year. There are live bands on 2 stages, morris dancing, apple pressing demonstrations, a puppet show, a cider bar, hot and cold food, a funfair, stalls selling apples and many different kinds of local produce, and of course the theme throughout is the celebration of apples.
The 2012 Festival will be held on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October 2012 from 10 am until 5 pm both days.
Tickets are available at £10 per person, per day if purchased in advance, or £12 on the door. Children aged under 12 (age as at 20th October 2012) are admitted free of charge. The event runs from 10 am until 5 pm each day.
Please note: No dogs permitted except assistance dogs. Proof of ID will be required when purchasing alcohol if requested by our staff.
We are updating this page regularly, so be sure to come back in a few days and see what else we have added.
Bands
Saturday 20th October
Main Stage
| 12noon | Jacquemo |
| 1pm | POG |
| 2pm | The Piranhas |
| 3pm | Poppy Perezz |
| 4pm | Kalakuta Millionaires |
The Pip Inn
| 12noon | Jez Tonkin |
| 1pm | Hatful of Rain |
| 2pm | Danni Nicholls |
| 3pm | Tobias Mudlow |
| 4pm | Bad Bad Whiskey |
Sunday 21st October
Main Stage
| 12noon | Lost Organ Unit |
| 1pm | The Orchestra That Fell to Earth (original members of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra) |
| 2pm | King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band |
| 3pm | The Moulettes |
| 4pm | Voodoo Love Orchestra |
The Pip Inn
| 12noon | The Guitar Club |
| 1pm | Porchlight Smoker |
| 2pm | Boondock |
| 3pm | Cajun Dawgs |
| 4pm | John Crampton |
Please see further down the page for links to the bands' own pages.
Please note: Performance times are approximate and we reserve the right to amend the acts or performance times at our discretion.
Other Attractions
Other attractions at the Apple Festival 2012 will include Morris Dancing displays, the Harris Bros fun fair, food stalls, children's entertainment including Wishwork's Puppet Theatre with a full programme of shows on both days, and much more.
Open Farm Activities
There will be plenty of fun activities on the Open Farm, and you will be able to see our Jersey pedigree cows being milked from 3.30pm onwards.
For a flavour of what to expect in 2012, please see the video below of our 2011 festival.
How to get there
Middle Farm is situated on the A27, 4 miles east of Lewes and 7 miles west of Eastbourne, between the turnings to Ripe and Selmeston
We are on a National Cycle Route 2 (details www.sustrans.org.uk)
The nearest railway station is 2 miles away at Glynde, on the Lewes to Eastbourne line.
Bus No. 125 starts at Barcombe and passes us via Lewes, Monday to Friday. Bus No. 25 starts at Lewes and passes Middle Farm , en route to Alfriston, on Saturdays only (details from www.traveline.org.uk).
Buses
The Cuckmere Community Bus will be running a shuttle service both Saturday and Sunday
- From Lewes Station starting at 10.50am (there will be an earlier bus at 10.35am on Saturday only), 10.50am, 11.05am and 11.20am and then every 15 minutes until the Apple Festival finishes.
- From Polegate Station starting at 10.50am, 11.10am and 11.30am and then every 20 minutes until the Apple Festival finishes.
The cost of travelling on the Cuckmere Community Buses will be £3 return, or £2 one way. The only concession is half price travel for under 16 year olds.
The Big Lemon bus will be running a shuttle service from Brighton.
The service will run from Old Steine, Brighton from 11.30am and then hourly until 3.30pm. The bus will stop at Elm Grove, Lewes Road Bus Garage, The Avenue, Sussex University A27 and Kingston Roundabout. The cost for The Big Lemon bus will be £6 return, or £4 one way. Please note: there are no concessions on these prices.The return bus times will be displayed at Middle Farm. The later return buses will be busy so please plan your return journey.