Upcoming ROC workshops As part of our Lottery funded Community Orchards Project 2025-2026 we have organised 5 sessions at Tregurra Community Orchard, Truro. This includes a pruning workshop below plus a blossom walk, a nature and art session and apple pressing in September 2026. Pruning workshopSunday 18th January at Tregurra Orchard, Truro9.30-1.30pm with James FergussonContinue reading “Winter Pruning Workshops 2026”
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Community fruit tree planting this Winter
We are excited to be working with Cornwall Council & Cormac this Winter to plant 55 fruit trees across 4 locations in Cornwall. These trees will bring blossom, tree cover and fruit for the benefit of local residents & wildlife, and increase biodiversity. Come and plant a tree, help develop the plans or learn aboutContinue reading “Community fruit tree planting this Winter”
Cornwall Orchard Network TALK: Colin Hawke
Cornwall Orchard Network Talk – Traditional Orchards with Colin Hawke Tickets, Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Redruth Orchard Project – the year ahead…
Please join us to discuss shrub choices for planting in early 2026, maintenance, pruning and other session dates, your ideas and suggestions for Trenoweth Community Orchard, Trefusis Park Orchard & East End Park Orchard. Meet on Monday 22nd Sept Redruth Victoria and Trefusis Parks at Food Troops /Cormac base at the Horticultural building, 6.30pm –Continue reading “Redruth Orchard Project – the year ahead…”
Awenek! The Great Cornish Heritage Festival 2025!
We are excited to share that we will be participating in Cornwall Heritage Trust’s Awenek! The Great Cornish Heritage Festival this year. Cornwall has a long and fascinating orchard heritage and it is increasingly recognised that traditional orchards are hugely valuable for biodiversity, with their mosaic of habitat from grassland to scrub, to hedgerow andContinue reading “Awenek! The Great Cornish Heritage Festival 2025!”
Redruth & Portreath community juicing
// Community orchard news //
We are delighted to share news of a grant awarded to us from The National Lottery Community Fund! A HUGE thank you to The National Lottery for recognising the work we do to support communities to create, maintain & celebrate community orchards. This grant will allow us to empower local residents to guide the careContinue reading “// Community orchard news //”
A look back at apple pressing at Tehidy Orchard with Andrew Tomsett
Thank you to Andrew Tomsett for this write up of our apple juicing activity at Tehidy County Park Orchard, nr Camborne in 2022.Apple pressing at TehidyOn a recent bright Autumn day, the Tehidy park volunteer rangersgathered at the orchard to press this year’s crop of apples.The Tehidy orchard is owned by Cornwall Council and alongContinue reading “A look back at apple pressing at Tehidy Orchard with Andrew Tomsett”
Cornish Orchard Surveying
On 11th June 2025 a group of us, all orchard enthusiasts in various ways & members of the Cornwall Orchard Network, headed back to Haye Cider Farm with invertebrate expert Keith Alexander and Paul Gainey (multi species expert). Here at the orchard we repeated a survey that we carried out in September of the previousContinue reading “Cornish Orchard Surveying”
‘Own root’ apple trees in Cornwall
Did you know that in Cornwall, Illogan, nr Redruth, has it’s own collection of own root apple trees growing? Local residents Andrew Tompsett & Peter Malidine have been taking cuttings and growing ‘own root’ apple trees in local green spaces for some time. These fruit tree cuttings have been taken from Cornish apple trees includingContinue reading “‘Own root’ apple trees in Cornwall”