The Orchard Project - Bringing community orchards to cities and towns.

We are the only national charity dedicated to the creation, restoration and celebration of community orchards.

Our aim is that every household in the UK’s town and cities be within walking distance of a productive, well-cared-for, community-run orchard.

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Could urban food forests be the future for orchards? – Launching our new Forest Gardening course
March 23, 2021 - Over the last two years, a new direction has quietly been germinating at The Orchard Project. Scratching our heads, we’ve grappled long and hard over how best to adapt our work in the face of the climate crisis. Interesting questions have been raised. But these seeds, planted in our minds during meetings fuelled by flipcharts… Read More

Level 2 Award in Forest Gardening
- Learn all the skills you need to design, create and manage a forest garden by doing this 5 month accredited online course! It features the videos of Martin Crawford, author of several books on forest gardening and director of the… Read More

Jargon Busting!
April 8, 2021 - From eco- to bio-, with a bit of agro- in between, our Finance and Operations Manager, Kathryn, helps us decipher the basics of food growing terminology. Kathryn joined The Orchard Project last year. She explains why growing plants is so… Read More

Planning and designing an orchard
- Once your trees are in the ground, they may be there for another century so careful planning is needed! Read More