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Creating a wonderful no-dig #ForestGarden in Rodney Fields, Manchester, needs a few ingredients: Beautiful fruiting shrubs, perennial herbs, ground cover plants, wood chip mulch, dedicated volunteers & a whole load of cardboard! Planted with our project manager Rukes' guidance🍓. #CommunityOrchard
August 20, 2026 at 8:01 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Keep your eyes peeled this week for a special #SummerPruning tips video with our friend Fruity Walks over on Instagram. 👀 To whet your pruning appetite, here's orchardists at #BryngarwCountryPark getting stuck in to their summer pruning session with our project manager Witchhazel.
#CommunityOrchard
Group of people pruning a tree in summer
August 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Having healthy trees in a heatwave is no easy task. In #Wales, orchardists at Kenfig National Nature Reserve have protected the soil around their trees with water retaining mulch mats, under the guidance of our project manager Witchhazel. 👏

#CommunityOrchard
Scorched grass from heat with apple trees in cages
August 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
carloscarreter.bsky.social
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2026 - #communityorchard #inthemorning with #fujifilmgfx50r and #gf80mm #inthepark #behindhome.
July 22, 2026 at 6:12 AM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Last chance to nominate an amazing #CommunityOrchard volunteer: deadline 16 July. They simply need to be involved in an orchard we've helped to improve or create and willing to have their photo and first name shared on our comms channels. 👉 form.jotform.com/261472033112...
Two women in orchard settings smiling at the camera with 2025 Community Orchard Volunteers of the Year above.
July 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
ecodrama.bsky.social
If you would like further information, have access needs or would like support to attend this event, please email suzanne@ecodrama.co.uk.

#Pollok #CommunityOrchard #Picnic #FreeEvent #GlasgowEvents #Summer2026 #FamilyFriendly
July 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Nominate an amazing #CommunityOrchard volunteer who goes above and beyond this #VolunteerWeek (1-7 June). They simply need to be involved in an orchard we've helped to improve or create & willing to have their photo & first name shared on our comms channels. 👉 form.jotform.com/261472033112...
June 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
In a heatwave, trees in containers need extra TLC as the soil can dry out more quickly, especially in urban areas. Danygraig Primary School in Swansea (pictured) is making sure they water their trees well 💦

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#CommunityOrchard #Heatwave #UrbanOrchard
Two primary school children water a young fruit tree that is planted into a tall wooden raised planter. They are using bright red watering cans. Teachers and young pupils stand around the young fruit tree they have just planted into a raised planter. Primary school pupils spread woodchip mulch by hand around their newly planted tree.
May 29, 2026 at 9:01 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Read all about how Witchhazel and the team at Cae Tan, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project in Swansea, designed, planned and created a pond for their community forest garden here 👇️
www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/how-to-...

#CommunityOrchard
Two orchardists dig the ground to make a pond. They are covered in mud. They are shovelling soil into trug buckets and transporting the soil with wheelbarrows.
May 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Look at how the Stoneyfields Park #CommunityOrchard is getting on! This lovely new community orchard was planted in Barnet, London back in February. Volunteers have been taking excellent care of the trees. Our team returned to the orchard last month to help add some herbs & flowers to the site. 🌱
People gathered at Stoneyfields Community Orchard. The orchard is in an open grassy area in a park surrounded by mature trees and shrubs. Some people are stood next to young fruit trees. Others are kneeling on the ground planting herbs. A young woman kneels on the ground by a young fruit tree, showing a child the roots of a plant that has been removed from its pot, ready to plant in the ground.
May 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Events are running across London each day, with activities also listed in Leeds, Birmingham, Penzance and Newcastle. We especially love the sound of guided tours of a Victorian orchard. Head over to @urbantreefest.bsky.social to view their programme of events.

#CommunityOrchard #UrbanOrchard
May 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
We spent a wonderful afternoon planting a new #communityorchard at the Calder Street Oasis in Govanhill, Glasgow with children from nearby Holy Cross Primary School and Hollybrook Academy.

It's great to see communities come together like this to make a difference 🍏

📷️ Image 2: L Vroomen
A man in a puffer jacket and bobble hat holds a young tree while a boy helps to move soil into the planting hole. Three boys in black jackets grinning at the camera while planting a tree with a mural in the background. A young girl moves mulch around a newly planted tree with a mural in the background.
April 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
westyorkshirejournal.co.uk
Fruit. Trees. Fruit trees.

Find out more from @fruitworkscoop.bsky.social by tapping on the link below ⬇️

#Ilkley #Wharfedale #GrowYourOwn #SustainableLiving #CommunityOrchard
March 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
Great feedback from children at St David's Catholic school in Swansea about how our project manager Kate could have made creating their new orchard better: "Make the trees grow faster!" Inspiring the next generation to care about the environment is one of the best things we can do. #CommunityOrchard
Children in a long line carrying tools A group of children digging a hole for a tree A group of children admiring their newly planted tree A group of boys cutting out a piece of turf
February 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
ecodrama.bsky.social
Join Pollok's Community Orchard Wassail! ✨🌳
Celebrate, wake the trees, enjoy crafts & fun!
Sat 28 Feb, 2–4pm at Pollok Community Centre & Orchard, Langton Road, G53 5DP
FREE!

#Pollok #CommunityOrchard #Wassail #FreeEvent #GlasgowEvents
Group of people outdoors in a field participating in a community wassailing event on a sunny day. Illustration explaining wassailing, a British orchard tradition with noisy events to wake fruit trees and encourage harvest, featuring decorated fruit figures on sticks. Contact suzanne@ecodrama.co.uk for access support to attend the event.
February 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM
theorchardproject.bsky.social
We're spreading a little #love today by sharing one our favourite photos from a #CommunityOrchard in Glasgow.

Obviously this photo wasn't taken recently, and not just because of the leaves on the tree - it's also got a strange blue colour in the sky that's eluding most of the UK right now...
Tree bark with a heart wound in it and blue summer sky in the background
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
jennytpgrows.bsky.social
#Orchards #CommunityOrchard #Apples #CommunityFood #Liverpool #FoodStudies

I flipping love this! Big shout out to @lucyantal.bsky.social and all the partner orgs for doing so much to co-ordinate and celebrate this kind of thing.
🍏🍎🌱🌳
lucyantal.bsky.social Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · Feb 9
Amid the gloom of February & the general *gestures* state of the world, take 8 mins out of your day to enjoy the joy that was Apple Day 25. #Community #Food 🍎🍏

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Apple Day 2025
YouTube video by Growing Knowsley's Future
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February 9, 2026 at 7:39 PM
minimastersart.bsky.social
One of our Year 5&6 clubs @minimastersart.bsky.social at St Johns RCPS #Chorlton created tree tokens 🔨 for our very own Mini Masters Arty Cherry Tree 🍒, our precious little sponsored tree within #RyebankFields #CommunityOrchard (under threat of destruction) It’ll be looking might fine for Wassailing
January 9, 2026 at 12:45 PM
fruitworkscoop.bsky.social
We've just polished up our course programme for next year! 🌳🍎

More info & tickets available on our website:

fruitworks.org.uk/courses

#fruitworkscoop #fruittrees #fruitgrowing #growingfruit #fruittreepruning #grafting #communityorchard
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
tricrossian.bsky.social
From my Sunday walk. #Limpsfield #communityorchard
Orchard view, with grass, apple trees and blue sky. Wooden logs in the wood, arranged in a fairy circle, for visiting schoolkids, perhaps. Wooden bench amongst trees. A lonely late-flowering white rose.
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
joehashman.bsky.social
Come along. All welcome. I’ve written a four minute introduction especially :)
#Dorset #Shaftesbury #Community #Choir #CommunityChoir #singing #song #poetry #poem #apple #fruit #orchard #CommunityOrchard
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
fruitworkscoop.bsky.social
Come along to the Harehills Orchard Apple Day this Sunday, organised by Back to Front. Check them out!

Juice some local apples and meet your neighbours 🍎
1pm - 3pm

@ Harehills Park Orchard (next to the Bowling Green)

#appleday #harehills #communityorchard #applepressing
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
carolyntgray.bsky.social
#TunbridgeWells #FriendsOfGrosvenorAndHilbertPark #CommunityOrchard

Blackberry season is in full swing! 🍇✨ Loads of juicy blackberries and windfall apples are ready to be picked up from the community orchard — perfect for pies, jams, and crumbles. 🥧🍏 #ForagingFun #CommunityHarvest #LocalFruit (1)
July 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
foodwiseleeds.bsky.social
🍎🌿 Join the Fruit Harvest Share: Aug-Nov 2025! 🌿🍎
For just £99, enjoy 4 months of mouth-watering, locally grown goodness! 🍐😍

#AppleHarvest #YorkshireOrchard #SupportLocal #FruitLovers #HarvestShare #CSA #CommunityOrchard #FreshAndLocal #NatureLovers
Orchard Harvest fresh local apples and pears help restore nature discover rare delicious varieties
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
bowlingparkorchard.bsky.social
Save the date!!
#communityorchard #appleday #biodiversity #letterpress #bd25
June 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM