Aberglasney is having a celebration of this year’s bumper crops of apples, squashes and gourds on Sunday, 5 October, and everyone is invited to come and join in the harvest fun.
This new family event in the Aberglasney calendar will include apple pressing with the Dinefwr Orchardeers. You can bring your apples and containers along and they will help you make apple juice to take home with you that day. Their experts can help with apple identification and give advice if you’re looking to grow apples in future.
Aberglasney’s Harvest Celebration will include storytelling, harvest crown making, pumpkin carving, corn dolly creation, apple bobbing, candle making, folk dancing, live music and a pumpkin trail around the gardens for all ages to enjoy.
Helen Scutt, Aberglasney Gardens’ Director, said, “We want all the family to come along and celebrate this year’s bumper harvest with us. We will have something for everyone including local storyteller, Ceri Phillips, telling Welsh forest folktales with autumnal themes. Dawnswyr Llanarthne will be performing traditional folk dances. Huw Richards and our very own Hattie Kerrs will have a question and answer session about growing your own fruit and vegetables. Come and pick their brains once you’ve picked your apples to turn into juice with us.”
Huw Richards, Permaculturalist and a Sunday Times Bestselling Author will be joining our very own Kitchen Gardener, Hattie Kerrs, for a Q&A session from 2pm in the main hall of the mansion when visitors can ask all their fruit and vegetable gardening questions.
Local singer and guitarist from Carmarthen, Dylan Carmichael, will entertain visitors from 3pm. Dylan will bring feel-good vibes and acoustic charm to bring our Harvest Celebration event to a close.
Aberglasney’s Tearooms will be serving a selection of apple dishes including cake and juice made from apples grown in our own gardens as well as a selection of homemade soups and cawl using vegetables harvested in the gardens. There will also be hot food on-the-go available from Y Bocs Tatws, from Llanelli, and The Steak Boxx, from Myddfai, with their delicious pork and apple burgers which are produced locally.
Come along and take part in our harvest celebration. The gardens will be open from 10am until 6pm and the harvest celebration activities will run from 11am until 4pm on Sunday, 5th October 2025. Entry to the Harvest Celebration will be free for members of Aberglasney Gardens. Adults will be charged £10 entry to the event and they can enjoy a walk around the gardens in this fee. Children 16 years old and under always have free entry to Aberglasney.
