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Thank you so much to Tony Phillips from Klass an Hay for writing this and sharing some Cornish language with us. We really enjoyed the Cornish language session at Tehidy Orchard BioBlitz last summer and were really glad he agreed to write some of this up for us here. To learn more Cornish language withContinue reading “‘Prederow a-dhann avalen’ Thoughts from under an apple tree”

We are appealing for £2,000 from our community to contribute to our Redruth Orchard Project that seeks to: 1. Create a new Community Orchard/s2. Work with the local community to maintain & rejuvenate existing orchards and fruit trees.3. Share traditional orchard skills, provide more apple pressing opportunities using the new community apple press, and other apple relatedContinue reading “Redruth Orchard Project”

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”

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”

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”