Welcome

Welcome to issue 19 of Green Kids. We have taken a trip down to the orchard to find out all about apples, how they are grown and some delicious recipes you can make with them. You can make your own yummy apple pie using the instructions on page 4 or find a green penfriend on page 6.

Contents:

3 All about apples 4 Make your own pie 6 Your letters 7 Apple Story 8 Puzzles and jokes

Did you

know?

If you toss a piece of ap ple

peel over y our left sho ulder it is

said to rev eal the init ial of your

future husb and or wife .

fact

Apples we re believed

to be magic al from very

early times . Diviners in

search of w ater hidden

undergroun d used to u se

forked bran ches taken from

the Apple t ree. These

were tradit ionally calle d

wishing rod s.

folklo reThe ancie nt custom of Wassail ing the apple trees wa s intended to awake n the slee ping treespirit, drive awa y bad luck , and ens ure a g ood harve st. People would dri nk to th e tree with cider, thr ow cider o ver its r oots and p ut a piece of bread o r toast s oaked in c ider into a fork of th e tree’s b ranches. Often the t rees were dance d around, and the W assailing Song was sung.

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Editor Melissa Corkhill Design Jez Harris. Green Kids is printed on recycled paper using vegetable based inks. To write to us: Green Kids, PO Box 104, Lewes, BN7 9AX Tel: 01825 872858 Website: www.thegreenparent.co.uk With thanks to www.bramleyapples.co.uk for their help