For the last 3 years we have been working intensively in the Leeds area and helped 12 communities plant new community orchards. Practically every month we’ve also discovered a community orchards we hadn’t heard over and so there are now 70 orchards in the Leeds district. Our project manager Alan Thornton has visited all of […]
Spring is finally here and the orchards of Leeds are starting to come to life
We’ve already had a couple of training sessions (formative and restorative pruning) and with grafting coming up (bench and top). Helping Britain Blossom are helping five orchards graft 400 trees this year. That’s involved a lot of collecting graft wood (whilst pruning) and getting some grafting pliers. We’re also going to give the nifty Scionon […]