If you're looking to put your talent to a good cause, then this could be the job for you! We're looking for a Head of Fundraising to help grow our income so we can empower even more communities to create & maintain community orchards across the UK. 👉 bit.ly/49Opbwq

Single use-plastics pollute our Earth and adversely impact our health, but we know they can be hard to avoid.

Sourcing more of your fruit locally can help reduce your plastic consumption - and those small changes add up 🌍!

#EarthDay2024 #PlanetvsPlastics

Anyone for nettle tea? 🌿 At Cae Tan's recent 'spring leaves' session volunteers could try not only tea, but also hedgerow salads & plant some medicinal herbs. We've been working at this CSA site on the Gower Peninsula in Wales as part of our community food forest project.

Want to learn where to pick free fruit in NW London & find out more about setting up a local fruit harvesting group? Sufra NW London is working with Michael Stuart to help make this a reality. Next meeting Tues 23 April. Sign up 👉: bit.ly/3xqxhhh
📷 Cal Holland

In our latest blog, our Education, Skills & Training Manager Jo Homan shares her experience establishing Edible_Landscapes_London

She shares advice for cultivating diverse communities of plants & people in your growing space. Read it here: bit.ly/3VTX9fQ

📣 Attn gardens & growing spaces: registration for Good to Grow Week is live! Sign up to take part in the national edible week of action 22-29 April and get your garden (or orchard!) on the map.

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Are you looking for a course to deepen your food-growing knowledge or kick-start your horticultural career?

Don't miss getting a place on our online Forest Gardening course starting 22 April: bit.ly/43KcaCt

#ForestGardening

🍏 Job alert! 🍎 We're looking for a Project Manager who is passionate about community orchards to join our team in #Manchester .

Benefits include flexible working, 25 days A/L pro rata, training support & wellbeing allowance: bit.ly/3TKMP79

⏰ Deadline: 5 May 2024.

We had so much fun adding herbaceous perennials & wildflower seeds to the orchard in Crowcroft Park #MCR recently!

Thanks to Garden on a Roll & @meadowingarden for donating plants, Greater Manchester Environment Fund and to all the volunteers who have helped cultivate this greenspace for the community 🍐

Did you know that we don't just create new orchards, but also help to restore old ones?

Our Glasgow Project Manager Fergus was joined by some enthusiastic local volunteers in Kinlochard to prune neglected veteran apple trees on a housing estate.

Do you want to create fruitful & climate-resilient greenspaces?

Check out our Award in Forest Gardening: tickettailor.com/events/theorch…

Forest gardens take inspiration from natural woodlands, which are inherently diverse & less risky than monoculture planting.

Rakesh Rootsman Rak

This is an urban community orchard at Bryn y Don in South #Wales , where we recently worked with some fantastic local volunteers to plant new trees & give the existing ones a little extra TLC.

If you can, support us to plant even more: theorchardproject.org.uk/donate/

Some lovely Blossom Day poems for all the orchard-lovers out there...!

A planting, pruning and grafting bonanza has been happening at community orchard sites over the past few months, so if you see one of our project managers out and about looking a little frazzled, you'll know why!

Here's just a taster of what they've been up to...

Next Monday is your chance to engage with London's mayoral candidates at the Environment Debate, hosted by A More Natural Capital Coalition, which we are proud to be part of.

Join in-person or online, details here: cprelondon.org.uk/news/mayoral-e…

Today is officially the first day of Spring 🌱 Why not head out to your local community orchard or greenspace and re-connect with nature to celebrate? This quote from social worker & environmental activist Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug felt like a fitting reminder for this time of year.

We delve into the wonderful world of #pomology * literature with Orchard Notes for our latest blog, where he shares his top five books and where to find them online.

Read more: bit.ly/3PmNEkW

*the study of fruit, fruit growing and orchard management techniques

We have some free orchard workshops coming up! Join us to help maintain your local orchards and enhance your formative pruning skills.

Manchester, Sat 23 March. Book here: bit.ly/3v9Ipyk

Edinburgh, Sun 24 March. Book here: bit.ly/492LfmM