is the landscape you create" reads one of their colourful posters. In 1990 they founded Apple Day as a focus for celebration of the hundreds of apple varieties which are ignored in favour of a handful of supermarket-friendly strains. It has since become well established as an annual event, on 21 October each year. Related to this is their campaign for Community Orchards. In October 2007 Hodder & Stoughton published a fully revised & expanded edition of Common Ground's Apple Source Book which contains a list of the 2,300 apple varieties grown in the British isles. In 2005 they launched the new project Producing the Goods, exploring distinctive local produce and its marketing. Part of this project included encouraging the production and retail of locally distinctive souvenirs. Mapping a spirit of place They devised Local ABCs and Parish Maps as ways of outlining the local distinctiveness of a place. These tools have been widely influential: Parish Maps have been made since the 1980s, beginning with the exhibition 'Knowing Your Place' in 1987; recent examples include West Sussex in the UK, Piemonte district in Italy and in California USA Publications Other projects have been publication-based, and have included Field Days and Trees, Woods and the Green Man, and they initiated Richard Mabey's Flora Britannica. They have released a number of books, both with national publishers and self-printed, including Holding Your Ground, Second Nature, Apple Games and Customs, In A Nutshell, The Apple Source Book, From Place to PLACE, New Milestones, Leaves (from an exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy) and three poetry anthologies, Trees Be Company, Field Days and The River's Voice. Their latest major work is England in Particular, an encyclopaedic overview of local distinctiveness that was published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 2006, and the new edition of The Apple Source Book, issued by Hodder in October 2007. Common Ground Archive The Common Ground Archive is held by the University of Exeter Special Collections. Notes / References Further reading Smith, Jos, The New Nature Writing. Rethinking the Literature of Place, Bloomsbury Academic, External links Common Ground England in Particular Common Ground Archive at the University of Exeter Cultural geography Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom