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21st November 2018

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…

14th November 2018

London’s Historical Fruitscape: Discovering the rare and ancient Apple Varieties that go into our Cider

What do Bismarck, Lord Derby and Arthur W Barnes have in common? (Answer below the image…)   …They are all heritage apple varieties that go into our hand-pressed London juice…

7th November 2018

How to Make Cider and be a Food Waste Hero!

Every year thousands of tonnes of apples go to waste in orchards and gardens. Too ugly for the supermarkets, the waste on the farms is even greater with an estimated…
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14th August 2018

How Might Rising Temperatures Affect Orchards?

If, like me, your brain seemingly ceases to function above 25C, it’s been a tough summer. And a tough one too for our community orchards out there, surviving in the…

14th May 2018

Widening to Wakefield

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…

20th March 2018

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…

27th November 2017

National Tree Week

Earlier this month, I was on a trip to Ealing, West London to give some orchard management advice to an orchard group. On my travels I came across a great…

11th September 2017

(I Know) What Orchard Mentors Did This Summer….

That complex rooty smell in the evening and that creeping park mist in the morning give us a hint that it might be time to admit the inevitable – autumn…

31st August 2017

Ernest Cook Trust school orchard project

Since the birth of The Orchard Project in 2009, we have sought to work with schools each year – primary, secondary and special schools. We believe that all children should…
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