Join us on 26th January at Brogdale Farm for our first-ever Wassailing celebration! This ancient tradition is held to bless the orchards, ward off bad spirits, and encourage a bountiful apple and fruit harvest for the coming year. A wonderful and unique family experience.
Wassailing: Tradition, Cider and Celebration Date: Sunday 26th January 2025 Open: 4pm – 6.30pm Ticket Prices: Family – £20 (2 adults & 2 children 3-15yrs) Adult – £7.50 (16yrs+) Child – £5 (3-15 yrs, under 3’s free)
Tickets include entry, a free glass of mulled cider or warm apple juice and a complimentary piece of homemade apple cake.
Free kids’ crafts – children can make their own decoration to hang on the tree during the ceremony.
Join us on 26th January at Brogdale Farm for our first-ever Wassailing celebration! This ancient tradition is held to bless the orchards, ward off bad spirits, and encourage a bountiful apple and fruit harvest for the coming year. A wonderful and unique family experience. The event will feature traditional Morris dancers, a procession and wassailing ceremony, and a hullabaloo under our oldest Bramley apple tree.
Bring your saucepans and spoons, lanterns, torches and your loudest voices and step back in time as we toast the trees, sing, celebrate with cider, good company, and festive cheer. As well as singing, dancing, drinking and general merrymaking, kids can create crafts to hang in the trees. Don’t miss this unique celebration of heritage and nature!
Come and help us keep the tradition alive and encourage the spirits into ensuring a good harvest at Brogdale Farm in 2025! We’ll be making lots of noise and we don’t want to scare your furry friends, so no dogs allowed to this event. What to bring – Battery-powered torches or lanterns (not real flame for safety reasons), saucepan and spoon, drum, whistle bells, horns, or just some stones in a tin to rattle – it’s up to you but something to make lots of noise and scare away the bad spirits!
Drink & Food – Brogdale Craft Cider will be selling craft cider mulled cider, tea and coffee and hot chocolate from Ookidon, and sweet and savoury treats from Bids Bakery will be available too
Dogs – Due to the nature of this event and the noise we will be creating during the ceremony, no dogs are allowed to this event.
Noise – Driving away bad spirits during a Wassailing ceremony is a lively and noisy tradition. Please take precautions if you or someone in your group has sensitive ears. There may also be distant gunshot fire too.
Event tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.
FAMILY £20 ADULT £7.50 CHILD £6
Address
Wassailing at Brogdale Farm
Brogdale Collections, Brogdale Farm, Brogdale Road, Faversham, Kent
ME13 8XZ
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