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Thanks to everyone who looked out for Tessa – she returned home and is warm and dry now.

Our last Community Orchard session for this year will be on Sunday November 26 from 2-4pm. We’ll have our final delivery of fruit trees to plant and hope to tackle some of the invasive brambles. Everyone welcome – spades/forks, secateurs … Continue reading →

Volunteers are invited to the Community Orchard afternoon from 2-4 pm on Sunday September 24. We’ll be having a walk round and chat about the orchard, future plans, etc first and move on to some weeding so gardening gloves, forks/spades … Continue reading →

Please note the date of this event is Saturday September 23, as on the poster. Apologies for the mismatch between the date and the day in the recent post.

I’ve just been informed that due to weather issues the trees will not be arriving in time for the planned session on Sunday March 12. They’re now scheduled to arrive next week so we’ve rearranged our planting session for next … Continue reading →

We’re expecting a delivery of 9 trees for the orchard this week so plan a planting session on Sunday March 12 – between 2 and 4 pm. Everyone welcome – spade and gardening gloves would be useful.

To the mowers, rakers, and weeders for your work this afternoon. Amazing what a few volunteers can achieve in a couple of hours. And we weren’t rained on either! Great work – thank you.

This will probably be our last working party before Christmas so we’ll be at the Orchard on Sunday October 30 between 2 and 4 pm. Everyone welcome – we’ll be weeding so do bring gardening gloves – secateurs and/or digging … Continue reading →