Orchard News
The Government has launched the long-awaited 25 Year Environment Plan. Within it are the (safe, commitment-free) targets: creating or restoring 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat outside the protected site network, focusing on …
Read article...The newly restructured Countryside Stewardship scheme now includes orchard works in the mid-tier options. There are two strands to Countryside Stewardship, the existing 10 year higher tier (HT), and the …
Read article...FruitID.com are repeating their successful DNA testing initiative. Unknown apples, pears and cherries can be registered for the scheme and leaf samples sent to East Malling Research for fingerprinting. The …
Read article...The Welsh Perry and Cider Society have secured Heritage Lottery Funding for a two-year project called The Heritage of Orchards and Cider Making in Wales. The project aims to secure …
Read article...Traditional orchards are evocative places, suited to contemplation and reflection. In recognition of this, Lisa Kelly has written four poignant new poems which are available for free access at PN …
Read article...A Wincanton pub crowned best in UK for cider by CAMRA. There are around 400 varieties of apples and pears used for only for making cider and perry, and a further …
Read article...This new tool helps you discover the heritage fruit varieties local to you. Just type in your location and the fruit you are interested in and it will search through …
Read article...The orchard grant scheme is now complete and we are pleased to announce that over the last year our orchard grant scheme has sent out trees and enough grafting kits to …
Read article...See our orchard team’s very own Megan in glorious Technicolour on a feature about orchard wildlife and grafting fruit trees. Megan spent the day filming in Wiltshire with the BBC …
Read article...Catch up with our latest activities in the May newsletter. Orchard newsletter May 2016
… Read article...The Mid Shires Orchard Group & People’s Trust for Endangered Species are pleased to present this fantastic event on Saturday, February 2nd 2019 Kindly hosted by Buckingham Garden Centre, Tingewick …
Read article...The PTES orchard team are joining forces with the UK Little Owl Project to help discover more about their distribution decline. We’d like to assess the public reception of this …
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