Guard reduction: freeing your fruit trees
This is an instructional blog about how our partner community groups can reduce their tree guard height, allowing the fruit trees to spread their limbs nice and wide for good…
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Unusual vandalism at Gardening Thymes
While planting I noticed the lovely wicker structure and heard about their plans for a polytunnel. When I returned for a follow up visit the trees were in great condition…
Apple Flavour Clouds and the Museum of Forgotten Taste
Recently I was lucky enough to be given a box of little apple flavour clouds. Pastila, a Russian sweet, is made from marshmallowy egg white and apples and was a…
Planting Permaculture and Parties
We’ll be making noise and singing sweetly to wake the orchard and encourage the sap to rise.
The story of the evil aphid army and how they tried to take over an orchard
In a community orchard not far from here, the power crazed aphid king Aphidoidea, having plundered all the apple trees in his kingdom, produced an army of winged offspring, the Alates.…
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…
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.
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…
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…