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I recently spent five sunny days at one of my favourite places: Ragmans Farm. I’d arranged to come and help with their annual spraying regime as the spraying regime at Ragmans…

We celebrated our fifth birthday party at City Hall with a big announcement. The evening was filled with talks, stories, singing and folklore.

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…

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…

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…

We’ll be making noise and singing sweetly to wake the orchard and encourage the sap to rise.

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.…

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…

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.