• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

The Orchard Project

Bringing orchards into the heart of urban communities

  • Accredited Courses
  • Orchard Map
  • Become a member
  • Donate / Plant A Tree
  • About us
    • Contact us
    • Meet the team
    • Work for us
    • Volunteer for us
    • Our Strategic Plan
    • Our partners and funders
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Charity information and Impact Report
  • What we do
  • News
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Guides and advice
  • Local Fox Cider
    • #AppleDonors 2022

Blog

Hawthorn blossom

18th May 2022

Manifesting the medicinal orchard

Orchards have always served communities as an integrated resource of produce. Mycorrhizal fungi networks increase a tree’s capacity to defend against harmful diseases and companion planting increases the likelihood of this unification. As we know from Forest Gardening, we are able to design layers of the forest – from shrubbery to tree tops – to orchestrate the growth of a biodiverse orchar

Read more

21st March 2022

We are all apples

As a bit of a forest gardening eager beaver, I’ve been reading some back issues of Agroforestry News. One article from 2015 caught my eye: ‘Tackling green xenophobia’. It’s also…

25th February 2022

Pruning with prisoners

“The lads thought chives only came in Pringles crisps!” says John, as we share a hearty lunch of curried lentil soup, chips and cheese rolls, – the same food the…

12th January 2022

An orchestra in an orchard

Our Edinburgh Project Manager, Chris, opens his ears to the sounds of the orchard in winter. He also considers ideas for community events that will tap into these aural pleasures.…
A bee-keeper holding up a honeycomb.

30th October 2021

To Bee or Not To Bee..

by Stephanie Irvine, one of our London Project Managers.  We need to talk about honey bees! Many urban community orchards want to keep bee hives, and you can understand why.…

20th September 2021

Diary of a CICO student

Our Certificate in Community Orcharding (CICO) is the UK’s first and only accredited course in community orchards. One of our committed students, Tamasin, has kindly shared her CICO journey with…

28th August 2021

Orchards Against Climate Change: Nature-based solutions

Nature-based solutions (NbS) can play an important role in tackling the climate crisis. It is currently something of a buzzword among environmentalists in fact. In this blog, we unpack how and why NbS help mitigate the impacts of our changing weather patterns, and call for urban community-run orchards to be…

29th July 2021

How to set up a charity: in conversation with our co-founder

Carina Millstone is a Co-Founder of The Orchard Project (TOP) and is now an Ambassador. She is a permaculturalist, who first noticed the opportunity for more orchards within London’s environmental…

23rd June 2021

10 YEARS AT TOP: a grand anniversary for our London orchard legend, Lewis McNeill

Last month Lewis McNeill celebrated ten years of working at The Orchard Project. Over this time, Lewis has built up a considerable reputation among the London community gardening sector and…

30th May 2021

Claybury Orchard – a sanctuary for both wildlife and the mind

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…
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 12
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Bringing orchards into the heart of urban communities.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Company Number: 06902160
Charity Number: 1139952

The Orchard Project (Cause) Ltd.
Fourth Floor The Archives
Unit 10 High Cross Centre
1 Fountayne Road
London
N15 4BE

© 2022 The Orchard Project · All Rights Reserved · Privacy Policy · Site by Charity & Biscuits