35 years of the Märkische Schweiz Nature Park
On Saturday, September 27, the Nature Park Apple Festival will be celebrated from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the garden of the Schweizer Haus. The brass band "Fun Brass" will open the festival and the traditional tour of the market stalls and festival participants, including many nature park partners.
The main theme of the anniversary year is "traditional crafts", so there will be lots of hands-on activities for children (and adults), including from Urticahof.including from Urticahof, Habondia-Hof, with Jana Pfarr from Beauty Oak, the basket weaver "Jagoda", the honey apiary of Buckow elementary school, "Touch Green" and Sandra Mohr as well as Martin Schreiber from the "Waldschrat" wilderness school.
At 2 p.m., biologist and agronomist Dr. Dr. Jörg Hoffmann will report on 35 years of the nature park and, together with nature park manager Sabine Pohl-Peters and long-standing nature park partners, will invite visitors to join in the discussion.
The festival will be organized by the nature and landscape guides certified in March 2025, who belong to various initiatives and bring their own offers. A number of associations associated with the nature park, such as the Märkische Schweiz Nature Conservation Park Association, the Middle Oder Landscape Conservation Association and BUND and NABU, with the Julianenhof Bat Museum, will also be taking part.
A green market will once again be selling produce and providing food and drink. As always, fresh cider, the apple variety show and identification will also be on offer. The festival is supported by many other partners and initiatives in the nature park.
At the end, the nature park administration is looking for partners for 35 fruit trees of old varieties that are looking for a planting site in the nature park as part of the anniversary.
When and where?
Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 12 p.m.–5 p.m.
In the garden of the Schweizer Haus
Lindenstraße 33
15377 Buckow