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Creating nourishing ecosystems for all

As we’ve covered in our blog on racial justice and orchards and in other blogs, one thing that’s really important to The Orchard Project is...

A little patch of nature

A spontaneous decision to try something completely different was a life-changing moment for Satu Fox. The 38-year-old attended our orchard open day with Lewisham Homes...

Manifesting the medicinal orchard

Orchards have always served communities as an integrated resource of produce. Mycorrhizal fungi networks increase a tree’s capacity to defend against harmful diseases and...

Diary of a CICO student

Our Certificate in Community Orcharding (CICO) is the UK’s first and only accredited course in community orchards. One of our committed students, Tamasin, has kindly...

Orchards against climate change: Nature-based Solutions

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can play an important role in tackling the climate crisis. It is currently something of a buzzword among environmentalists in fact. In...

How to set up a charity: in conversation with our co-founder

Carina Millstone is a Co-Founder of The Orchard Project (TOP) and is now an Ambassador. She is a permaculturalist, who first noticed the opportunity for...

10 YEARS AT TOP: a grand anniversary for our London orchard legend, Lewis McNeill

Last month Lewis McNeill celebrated ten years of working at The Orchard Project. Over this time, Lewis has built up a considerable reputation among the...

Save the Hounslow Wonder!

The delicious Hounslow Wonder apple was once a forgotten variety, with the known population of these trees at a total of just four in the...

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...

Celebrating Orchards at City Hall

Reflecting on the launch of our Celebration of Orchards project in 2016.

Finding London’s hidden orchards

What did the Celebration of Orchards team discover when they went searching for London's hidden orchards?

A Chat with Orchard Bob

Lewis recently caught up with project friend and all-round orchard maestro Bob Lever aka ‘Orchard Bob’.

London 2012 Olympic Legacy – The Mandeville Place Orchard

We celebrated the London 2012 Paralympic Games by doing one of our favourite things - planting an urban orchard!

Historic London apple trees planted at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

This winter we planted three trees with a remarkable history within the new orchard at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, read on to find out more...

From the orchards of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, to Shoreditch and Wembley

This blog from 2014 details our trip to Russia. It is part two of a two-part blog; find part one here. Kolomna is a town...

Tree 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...