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

Summer Pruning with Mark Simmonds and The Orchard Project
- This one-day workshop will help to restore the older stone fruit trees within the UK’s 'Best Community Orchard 2017’ at Platt Fields Park, Manchester. You’ll gain the skills and knowledge to take back to your older and/or larger fruit trees… Read More

Claybury Orchard – a sanctuary for both wildlife and the mind
May 30, 2021 - This is an orchard report from one of our CICO6 students - Daniel Strangleman. He was asked to gather information about Claybury orchard and produced this lovely personal piece. For more information our CICO course, click here. Claybury orchard lies… 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