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17th June 2013

Sunrise pop-up orchard

Earlier this summer the whole London Orchard team, plus friends and family, went to Sunrise Festival accompanied by a pop-up orchard of 21 trees, our juicer, and a ton of…

23rd May 2013

Hackney fruit happenings in the month of May

I thought I’d share some exciting happenings from my community orchard wonderings in Hackney. May is a time where it’s all going off orchard-wise, with plenty going on and much to observe.

6th March 2013

Annual pruning meditation and mulching mecca – a trip to Ragman’s Lane farm

On a lovely sunny spring morning in February I packed my backpack, tent and pruning tools and headed off from Hackney to Ragman’s Farm which is nestled in Raurdean, the…

22nd February 2013

Yields for the future – experimentations for sustainable urban orchards

This year we are asking our partner groups if they’d be happy for us to plant one or two ‘experimental’ trees in their orchards so we can begin to build…

4th February 2013

Frantic Fun February

Halfway through our planting and restoration, this is our busiest time, but train travel means there’s time for a quick blog.

9th January 2013

Winter Wassail 2013

On Saturday 5th Jan 2013, we held a wassail at Claybury Park orchard in Redbridge.

11th December 2012

How to prune fruit trees – notes from our visit to Bob Lever’s orchard in Norfolk

In early November the London Orchard Project team visited the 100-year-old Norfolk orchard of our expert apple man Bob Lever, for a workshop on formative pruning techniques for apples and…

25th October 2012

Orchard Communities

Do you know you could eat a different kind of British apple every day for six years? Our 7th October ‘London Orchard Festival’ gave hundreds of people the opportunity to…

8th October 2012

Climate change, blossom, and the solitary bee

2012 Has been described as ‘awful’, ‘horrible’, and ‘the worst year for apples in living memory’ by UK apple growers. Some are reporting as little as 10% of their expected…
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