Community orchards

Community orchards

If you are considering starting your own community orchard there are a number of hurdles to overcome, but armed with the right information and a bit of chutzpah they won’t be insurmountable. The links below contain a wealth of useful information. There are also some excellent books listed in our bibliography.

Once the plot is procured and agreements agreed you will have to get planting. If an orchard is already present, you should fill up any gaps with new trees. Select a range of rootstocks – some on MM106 for apple or other similar vigour stocks to help get the orchard cropping quickly, but be sure to include some trees on a full sized rootstock like M25 for apples, Brompton for plum and Kirchensaler for pears. This builds in longevity which is good for wildlife but they are slower to crop.

A top-tips list

Clear and concise guidelines published by Defra to help you find land and set up a community orchard.

The Community Land Advisory Service has produced a new, free set of documents to help community orchards find land and to reach good agreements about using it.

The Urban Orchard Project shares plenty of information on their useful website, from where to find a local orchard, to ‘how to’ videos for practical demonstrations of key orchard skills.

Helping Britain Blossom is supporting local people to create and restore 100 community orchards by 2017. The project works directly with community groups so will help up to 4,000 people learn new skills and deliver transformational benefits to their local communities.

A website for the Kent Orchards for Everyone project that has lots of useful information about community orchard management.

Finding community orchards near you

If you know of, or are involved with a community orchard not listed on this map, please click here to list it.
If you know of, or are involved with a community orchard that IS on this map and would like to update the details, please click here to let us know.

Finding community orchards near you

2) Clinton’s community orchard

6) Beighton community orchard

7) Abbots Langley community orchard

8) Winchcombe community allotment and orchard

17) Elder Stubbs Orchard

22) Odiham Cemetery Meadow community orchard

30) Radnor Road community orchard

31) Wilding Road community orchard

34) Admaston allotments community orchard

35) Wilburton community orchard

38) Gayden Meadows community orchard

42) West End Women and Girls Centre

47) Riverside community orchard

52) Stobsmill Inn community orchard

53) National Galleries of Scotland mobile community orchard

55) Constable Street community orchard

61) Cock Road Ridge community orchard

63) Shipley community orchard

66) St. Nicholas Park community orchard

67) Hampson Park community orchard

68) Bandley Hill community orchard

69) Bloxwich community orchard

70) Gladewood community orchard

71) Winston Churchill Memorial Garden community orchard

72) Lower Walditch community orchard

76) Centry Court community orchard

78) Leigh community orchard

79) Guilden Morden community orchard

80) Horton Kirby & South Darenth community orchard

90) Allesley Park Walled Garden

91) Great Wymondley community orchard

95) Cults Burn Park and community orchard

98) Highfield Park Trust

100) Highfield community orchard

104) Chiddingly Community Orchard

107) Shotley Gate community orchard

110) Coventry Community Peace Orchard

111) Ravensdale LNR community orchard

113) Cawston community orchard

114) Branchlines Old School Wood community woodland

117) Horsted Green Park community orchard

127) Redcliffe Community Orchard

128) Coulston Village Community Orchard

143) Egg Buckland community orchard – in planning