We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to gain land permissions to plant a new community orchard at North Country, Redruth. Redruth Town Council, Forests for Cornwall, Cornwall Council and Cormac have all helped get us to this point where we can actually get going! Hooray! Work has begun by a group of local peopleContinue reading “New Community Orchards”
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Species & overall report of Tehidy Bioblitz
Read some excerpts below and follow the link to get the full report here:Tehidy Bioblitz 2022 – Event Report “A 24-hour BioBlitz event took place in Tehidy Country Park, running from midday on Friday 29 July to midday on Saturday 30 July 2022. The event was delivered jointly by Sally Luker and Derek Green fromContinue reading “Species & overall report of Tehidy Bioblitz”
Tehidy BioBlitz 2022
What a fantastic BioBlitz event at Tehidy Orchard and surrounding area! A massive shout out to Budding Nature CIC and the amazing team of volunteer experts who helped us record species and teach people (including me – I learnt lots!) how to search for and I.D. different creatures and plants. Over 100 people, around halfContinue reading “Tehidy BioBlitz 2022”
Join the BioBlitz at Tehidy Orchard
There’s been a 74% loss of traditional orchards across the South West which was home to the largest area of orchards at the beginning of the 20th century. Traditional orchards are well known as fantastically biodiverse spaces and home to rare species partly due to the combination of tree spacing, grass and meadow between fruitingContinue reading “Join the BioBlitz at Tehidy Orchard”
Summer pruning workshop at Kehelland Horticultural Trust
Why prune in Summer? Why in Winter? Have an overgrown espalier? – July and August is the time to prune espalier trees, when growth is starting to slow down. We will be working in the fantastic espalier orchards at Kehellend Horticultural Trust ‘s 16 acre site. Our aim will be to encourage fruit for nextContinue reading “Summer pruning workshop at Kehelland Horticultural Trust”
Orchard abundance amongst the sand dunes at Towans Forest Garden
Raymond & Sylvia Yarwood were aware of what needed to be done to regreen Cornwall way before many of us. Towans Forest Garden is situated on one of Cornwall’s largest sand dune systems in Hayle, in no small way a challenging place to grow fruiting trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. The garden is tested toContinue reading “Orchard abundance amongst the sand dunes at Towans Forest Garden”
Apple trees for the community
We’ve had a good first season of providing fruit trees for planting in public spaces. Some Cornish apple trees including ‘Cornish Gillyflower’ made there way to Tehidy Country Park as part of the Apple Tree event held on 25th February over Half Term and organised by Charlotte Evans, and rangers Gavin and Stuart all fromContinue reading “Apple trees for the community”
What a productive start to the year! March Update
We led 4 x grafting workshops this year with 37 participants grafting and going home with at least 1 apple tree to care for and if successful – fingers crossed – plant in the Autumn. That’s 37 new apple trees to be planted! Incredible Edible Helston invited us to their edible community garden to share the skills of grafting in an open communityContinue reading “What a productive start to the year! March Update”
True Service trees (Sorbus domestica)
I’m very excited to be growing True Service trees from seed this year – my first seedlings are growing well. True Service trees grow very large and I’m more familiar with them in London, at St Ann’s Hospital site in Tottenham where there are some amazing mature trees with huge amounts of fruit, usually leftContinue reading “True Service trees (Sorbus domestica)”