Salt Spring Island’s 10th Annual Apple Festival
Celebrating Red-Fleshed Apples: The apples of the future
Sunday Sept 28, 2008
This is your chance to visit Apple Heaven while still on earth! Become a Salt Spring Island Apple Connoisseur for a day.
Where else do you have over 350 different apple varieties being grown organically? Salt Spring’s apple history dates back to 1860. Explore our incredible island, the Organic Gardening Capital of Canada.
Seeing red in 2008
Red-fleshed apples are truly the apple of the future. Apple Luscious Organic Orchard on Salt Spring Island grows 23 varieties of red-fleshed apples that are great to eat. The excitement of biting into these apples, the great taste and the novelty is amazing. You never have to encourage a child to eat them. The red colour is an indication that the fruit has extra antioxidants, in the form of anthocyanins, that are great health benefit. They taste even better than they look. The first reaction to biting into the red flesh is always !WOW!
