The Orchard Project
“For me, the very best moments of an English summer are sitting on a bench next to my pawpaw trees…
As I write we are in the midst of a scorching July heatwave, 36 degrees with barely a drop of…
Community orchards are spaces that bring people together through caring for the land, growing and sharing food, and building community.…
We talk a lot about the importance of bringing biodiversity to our orchards, and one of the best additions we…
We are getting all the more familiar with wetter winters and drier summers as our climate changes. Our orchards and…
This International Women’s Day we pay tribute to Dr Elaine Ruth Ingham, groundbreaking US microbiologist and leader in the regenerative…
What qualifies as a community orchard success story? They are many and varied: from a child excited about finally getting fruit…
This dark, cold time of the New Year is a very exciting and hopeful time in the orcharding calendar. Now…
It’s early January and -6 degrees outside. A heavy frost coats the grass around the old mulberry tree near to…
Winter is a time of rest, renewal, and reflection, but it also feels just a little bit otherworldly. In the…
When it comes to creating a new orchard or forest garden, the Orchard Design Kit is very much my tool…
When I was a student in the 1990s, I was doing a lot of activism – road protests, critical mass…
If you’ve ever been involved in apple pressing - whether for cider, juice, or community events - you’ll know the…
We recently caught up with Jez Taylor, head of Daylesford’s market garden, who admits he can happily talk about his…
I remember the cracks in the cement of that Somerset cidery - they looked like the Grand Canyon in miniature…
We're marking Refugee Week (16-22 June) with a blog by our Glasgow Project Manager Fergus Walker, whose work for The…
