00:00Well wherever you are Justine looks very aesthetically appealing. You're amongst
00:04the foliage. Where are you? I am indeed Chloe. So I'm here at Brogdale Farm which
00:11is just outside of Faversham and Brogdale Collections is home to the
00:15National Fruit Collection and they provide access and education all about
00:20fruit and apples and although you know we're past harvest season just about
00:26this farm grows over 2,000 different varieties of apple which is actually
00:31the largest fruit collection in the world and here to tell me more about all of
00:35these different types of apples is Neil Franklin who is a fruit agronomist and a
00:39trustee at Brogdale Collections. Neil thanks for joining me. Just tell me a
00:43little bit more about the apples that you grow here at Brogdale. Yes our apples go
00:48back to AD450. Our oldest variety is a Roman variety. We have lots of Kent
00:53varieties here. We have apples and each apple has a very interesting or apple
00:59variety has a very interesting story to tell. All weird and wonderful names, all
01:05different tastes shapes and sizes and colours. Can you tell me some of those
01:08names, those interesting names? Have you ever heard of Lord Peckover or Lady
01:13Soothley? They're just two of the names or Green Custard. Now there's a very
01:18interesting variety. Indeed and can you tell me how have you been celebrating
01:23World Apple Day here at Brogdale? Unfortunately World Apple Day by its name
01:28comes somewhat late. As you've already said we're at the back end of our
01:32picking but we did have a very large apple fair in early October which was
01:37incredibly successful where the fair basically involved not only could you
01:41come and pick the apples and taste the apples but everything connected connected
01:45with apples, cooking courses etc we held on site and as I say is very well attended
01:51from people from a long distance away as well. That's amazing and I understand
01:56here at Brogdale you do a fruit identification service. Can you just
02:00tell me a little bit about how that works quickly? Yes basically you send your
02:04apples in, it costs £30, send the apples in with a sample of leaves. It runs
02:09between September and October so if you've got an apple tree in the garden that you
02:13want to get ID'd, send it in pretty quickly. You need to go to the website and all the
02:17details are on there. And we do have an apple here for you just to guess. Could
02:22you just, what do you think that apple is? That you've been very kind on me. This is
02:27Royal Gala, that's quite a straightforward easy variety to identify. Yeah it's called
02:33Royal because actually Queen Elizabeth II was connected with it. She liked this
02:38apple when she's on her honeymoon and actually took some more apples back with her. Brilliant, thank you
02:43so much Neil. And there you have it, that's World Apple Day being celebrated in style at a local
02:49farm here in Kent and I've certainly made the most of my visit here. There's lots of apples to see.
02:55Thank you so much Justine.
02:57Thank you so much Justine.
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