Our nursery is housed in a converted barn set on a working farm in the New Forest. In such an impressive setting the children appreciate the outdoors and are aware of the changing seasons. To celebrate the start of autumn, we organised a family day that included a family forest trail and apple pressing.
The children picked apples from the low branches of the trees and collected the windfall fruit. It's a small orchard, so we also asked parents to contribute apples from their gardens to be sure we had enough juice. This resulted in a range of apples and it was interesting looking at the different varieties. The children are used to seeing the green and red shop-bought ones, but many from the orchard were gold and russet-brown.
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