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Continue Reading > News, Orchards Summit In The Orchard – Funding… It was crunch time on Sunday 23rd July for bunches of enthusiastic orchard folk,…Continue Reading >
Events Summer Orchard Day – GlasgowEvent Date: 26 Jul 2017
Come and learn about the North Kelvin Meadow Orchard and how to care for the…Continue Reading >
News Summit in The Orchard – Manchester We're hosting our first 'Summit in the Orchard' a chance for our orchard leaders and…Continue Reading >
News Leeds Scything Workshops in the News Our Scything workshops coming up in Leeds have been featured in the Yorkshire Evening Post. "Helping…Continue Reading >
News Alexandra Park in the News The Alexandra Park orchard has been featured in the Scottish Sun. A fantastic feature celebrating…Continue Reading >
News Work With Us The Orchard Project are recruiting for 2 posts based in Glasgow and Edinburgh to support…Continue Reading >
Events, News Join us for a Wassail in…Event Date: 15 Jan 2017
Helping Britain Blossom, in Partnership with The Wildlife Trusts and Heaton Mersey Village Conservation Group…Continue Reading >
Events, News Leeds Orchards LiveEvent Date: 14 Jan 2017
We're celebrating Leeds' growing orcharding culture at Leeds Orchards Live on 14th January, this is…Continue Reading >
Events, News, Orchards Tree Dressing Day in Mayow Park…Event Date: 04 Dec 2016
Head along to Sydenham's Mayow Park Community Orchard on Sunday 4th December for a winter orchard…Continue Reading >
Events, News Designing a Community Orchard, GlasgowEvent Date: 26 Nov 2016
Saturday 26th November 10am-4pm Calton Learning & Heritage Centre, 423 London Road, Glasgow, G40 1AG…Continue Reading >
Features, News, Orchards Sheldon Country Park, Birmingham, Apple Day… The Apple Day festivities at the community orchard at Sheldon Country Park were the highlight…Continue Reading >
Features, News, Orchards A fruitful Salford community orchard pie… Apples were sliced, pastry was rolled and pie dishes were most certainly at the ready…Continue Reading >
Features, News, Orchards Leed’s community orchards need You! We've been busy celebrating Apple Day, and Leeds community orchard culture, in many of the…Continue Reading >
Events, News Villa Street Community Garden Apple DayEvent Date: 25 Oct 2016
Apple pressing, tasting, peeling and even volcano making are just some of the activities involving…Continue Reading >
Events, News Aberfoyle Apple DayEvent Date: 22 Oct 2016
Scotland’s heritage apple varieties will be ripe for tasting at the first ever Apple Day…Continue Reading >
Events, News Sheldon Country Park, Birmingham Apple DayEvent Date: 26 Oct 2016
Friends of Sheldon Country Park, rangers and students from Solihull College joined us to get stuck…Continue Reading >
Events Salford Community Orchard Pie ContestEvent Date: 22 Oct 2016
Saturday 22nd October, Ordsall Hall, Salford Slice up your apples, roll out the pastry and…Continue Reading >
Events, News Celebrate Apple Day across Leeds If you're based in Leeds and the surrounding area you have no excuse not to…Continue Reading >
Features, News, Orchards Come on you Reds! As the new football season kicks off, we’re delighted that fans of Manchester’s FC United…Continue Reading >
Features, Orchards Collaborative Design of Alexandra Park Food… In March we planted the Alexandra Park Food Forest in Glasgow. With fruit and nut…Continue Reading >
Events, News Gardeners’ World LiveEvent Date: 16 Jun 2016
If you’ve ever wondered how to plant or restore a community orchard now is your…Continue Reading >
Features, Orchards Is This Britain’s Longest Community Orchard? With 1200 residents on the Cottingley Hall estate in Leeds, a small orchard wasn’t an…Continue Reading >
Events A Midsummer Wassail in Greater ManchesterEvent Date: 21 Jun 2016
Join us in Rochdale for a mid-summer wassail and the launch of Helping Britain Blossom's…Continue Reading >
Orchard Mentors, Orchards Meet our Master Orchardists As spring gets going some of you will be starting to feel the blossoming of…Continue Reading >
Features, News, Orchards Wassail! Wassail! All Over the Town! Helping Britain Blossom have been embracing the winter weather and reviving the age-old tradition of…Continue Reading >
Events, News Seed & Tree Festival, Glasgow Come along to our Seed & Tree Festival, co-hosted with Common Good Food, in Glasgow on Saturday…Continue Reading >
Events, News Greater Manchester Wassail Helping Britain Blossom and the Friends of Longford Park (FOLP) will be planting a new…Continue Reading >
News, Orchards An update from Herefordshire – Winter… Things have been busy for Helping Britain Blossom in Herefordshire, home to many traditional orchards.…Continue Reading >
News Work with us in Leeds Are you passionate about making a positive difference in Leeds? Do you have an interest in…Continue Reading >
News, Orchards An update from Scotland – Winter… Find out what Helping Britain Blossom have been getting up to in Scotland Helping Britain…Continue Reading >
Events, News Fife, Community Orchard Training Are you in central Scotland and interested in learning more about community orchards? Come…Continue Reading >
News, Orchards An update from Birmingham – Autumn… Find out what Helping Britain Blossom have been getting up to in Birmingham Helping Britain…Continue Reading >
Events, News Kirkton Park, Bathgate Orchard Leader Training Help Britain blossom by becoming an Orchard Leader in Scotland. Would you like to learn…Continue Reading >
News Greater Manchester Welcomes Helping Britain Blossom We celebrated Apple Day in style with the launch Helping Britain Blossom in Greater Manchester.…Continue Reading >
News, Orchard Mentors Become a Master Urban Orchardist Want to join the cutting edge in urban fruit growing? If you’ve been inspired by…Continue Reading >
Events, News Glasgow, Free Community Orchard Design Course TRAINING FULL Thanks to everyone for your interest, there are no more places remaining on…Continue Reading >
Events, News Birmingham Orchard Leader Training Help Britain blossom by training to be an Orchard Leader in Birmingham. Contact Birmingham Project…Continue Reading >
News, Orchards A New Orchard for the Orchard… Last winter, in our first Helping Britain Blossom planting season, we helped add an extension…Continue Reading >
Orchards Childs Hill Park Community Orchard Back in February, on a wintry weekend in London, a group of over twenty volunteers…Continue Reading >
Orchards A Happy New Orchard in Happy… A cold weekend at the end of January saw a community group in Happy Valley, Redbridge,…Continue Reading >
Orchards Perry Moat Community Orchard planted in… Last weekend a new community orchard sprung up in Birmingham. We helped the Friends of Perry…Continue Reading >
News, Orchards Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has a… We’ve put down roots in Birmingham as its biggest hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, becomes home…Continue Reading >
Orchards Welcome to Arnos Park Community Orchard! In late February the Friends of Arnos Park, a group of local residents from Southgate…Continue Reading >
News Herefordshire welcomes Helping Britain Blossom At the end of last week, Thursday 26th February, we launched Helping Britain Blossom in our…Continue Reading >
News Walking Orchard Visits Birmingham Walking Orchard Visits Birmingham to Mark New Project Set to Help Urban Communities Blossom Up to…Continue Reading >
Features, News February is the month for Leeks… Do you know when cucumbers come into season? What about the humble courgette? If you…Continue Reading >
News Helping Britain Blossom continues to support… A wintry weekend in London didn't prevent two groups of volunteers planting community orchards with…Continue Reading >
Events, Features Time to Wassail Celebrate the ancient tradition this January With 73% of the nation recognising they don’t…Continue Reading >
Recipes Spiced Apple Chutney (no cooking required!) Chutney is a great way of using fruits from a harvest. There are plenty of…Continue Reading >
Features What shall we grow in 2015? Time to think about what fantastic fruit and veg you'll grow this year. January is…Continue Reading >
News New Year’s Resolution – Volunteer More! With busy lives, it can be hard to find the time to volunteer. However, the…Continue Reading >
Features Caring for fruit trees Fruit trees need tender loving care (TLC) just like plants. The dormant period in trees,…Continue Reading >
News, Orchards Castlehaven Open Space Community Orchard Planted Community Plants First Helping Britain Blossom Orchard Visitors to world renowned London hot spot Camden Town now…Continue Reading >
News Introducing the Helping Britain Blossom Team We'd like to introduce you to the Helping Britain Blossom core team... Claire Morris -…Continue Reading >
Features Everyone can be an Insect Hotelier An insect hotel can house numerous insects and amphibians which provide benefits to their habitat.…Continue Reading >
News A Blossoming Movement in Scotland In a hall in Dunblane, around 100 people of all ages and backgrounds are gazing…Continue Reading >
Recipes Apple and Tomato Chutney Chutney is a great way of using fruits from the harvest….. Up for a Chutney…Continue Reading >
News Orchard Art – The Bulmer Foundation Launched in 2011, the Orchard Art project is a partnership, managed by the Bulmer Foundation,…Continue Reading >
News Master Urban Orchardists – Volunteering Opporunity… Calling community-minded orchard enthusiasts for an exciting new volunteering opportunity! Caring for an orchard is…Continue Reading >
News ‘Say Trees!’ Real Life Orchard Roots… Abbey Road, Westminster Bridge and Primrose Hill were in for a surprise on National Apple…Continue Reading >
News Now community orchard partnership will transform… 100 community orchards to be created across the country Up to 90,000 people will benefit…Continue Reading >
News ‘Diversity’ star, Ashley Banjo says #GetFruity! Britain’s Got Talent, Diversity and star of Sky One’s ‘Got To Dance’, Ashley Banjo, officially…Continue Reading >