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Saughton Park plans for free fruit for community
Event Date: 01 Dec 2017
Residents of one of Scotland’s most densely populated residential areas are to benefit from three community orchards to be planted as part of the redevelopment of the historic Saughton Park in Southwest Edinburgh, beside one of city’s busiest roads.
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News Greater Manchester Apple Day Celebration &… TO ENTER VISIT: bit.ly/appleday17 [caption id="attachment_6397" align="alignnone""] Apple Day Greater Manchester[/caption]Continue Reading >
News Birmingham QE Hospital celebrating their first… Birmingham’s QE Hospital is set for an “a-peeling” event at its first ever “Apple Day”…Continue Reading >
News Glasgow Apple Sunday Celebration of Clyde… Scotland’s heritage apple varieties will be ripe for tasting at this year’s Apple Day celebration…Continue Reading >
News Leeds goes Bananas for Apple Day… Apple juicing, toffee apples, chutneys, sausage making, longest peel competitions, craft activities… it’s all happening…Continue Reading >
News Merton Fruit Festival: Celebrating London’s Fruit… London’s lesser known heritage apple varieties will be ripe for tasting at this year’s Merton…Continue Reading >
News Apple Pie contest in Manchester for… Slice up your apples, roll out the pastry and get your pie dishes at the…Continue Reading >
Events, News Free Guide to Celebrating Apple Day Click Here to get your free downloadable interactive guide to Apple Day 2017 with ideas on fun activities…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 >