We may not give it our full attention, but the built environment around us shapes our mood, our thoughts, our health and our relationships. It’s not just the dimensions of our houses, flats and rooms, but the life between buildings - the public spaces. Green spaces especially are known to improve the quality of city life, yet even in cities abundant with trees such as London or Vancouver, people are experiencing what the UK government describes as “the greatest public health challenge of our time” affecting all ages and backgrounds: loneliness.
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Top Tips for Hosting the Perfect Orchard Picnic
With the recent warm weather spring is most definitely well on its way and soon you’ll be bathed in blossom, we love nothing more than gathering our community orchard teams,…
Save the Hounslow Wonder!
The delicious Hounslow Wonder apple was once a forgotten variety, with the known population of these trees at a total of just four in the UK! Fortunately, The Orchard Project…
Digging into Sustainability through a School Orchard
What do Art, Geography, English, and Biology have to do with creating an orchard? Your first thought might be not a lot, but dig a little deeper and the connections…
A women’s place is in the orchard! – The historical role of women in orcharding
“Orchards? – That’s no job for a lady!”. Really?! One of our Orchard Mentors and CICO graduate, Cath Palgrave, tackles gender discrimination in the fruit-growing realm, by taking at look…
A Winter Appeal: Help us keep Planting for Generations to come
Words from our Supporter Coordinator, Nicole Thomas, on pruning, planting and our vision for the future. Winter is a busy period in The Orchard Project’s calendar. With fruit trees in…
Branching Out: How our Certificate in Community Orcharding catapulted Cath’s career change.
Cath Palgrave is a proud graduate of our Certificate in Community Orcharding, an in-depth, level 3 orchard management course. She shares her path from discovering the joys of orchards to…
Manchester’s Community Orchards Reap their Rewards
The 30th November saw Greater Manchester’s orchardists gather together in suspense, as we revealed the winners of the prestigious Community Orchard Awards. The shiny Golden Apples were lined up and…
Local Fox Cider and the 800 people involved!
People are at the heart of what we do at The Orchard Project. Whilst we all care deeply about community orchards, local food and the issue of food waste, none…
Our Crafty Fox: What makes Local Fox a Craft Cider?
We’ve all seen the word ‘craft’ on cider and ale labels, but what does it really mean? Here’s our chief Cider Maker, Rosa Fletcher, to unpick the question and explain…