We are still busy planting the last trees for this planting season. And our Pollinator Garden is starting to take shape. Soon here will grow wild flowers to attract all the pollinators we need for our orchard blossoms. We had an interesting pruning day in February 2024 Kevin, who went […]

Quite a few children from the Green Team of Ashdown School had fun plantig their own trees. Ochard members assisted them so they learned a lot about how to make a young tree comfortable in the soil. A very exciting day for all of us!

It was such a joy finally being able to harvest our first few apples. Rewarding, after many month of working our way through our first year. The trees are still small but some of them were proudly showing us their most beautiful fruits.

We were expecting rain on the Saturday we were planning to erect our tool shed. But the weather god was kind and surprised us with 1,5 dry hours. Enough to put the roof on after finding our way through the in parts slightly confusing manual. But in the end we […]

It is summer. The orchard looks lush. Most of the trees are growing well and are even bearing their first fruit! Sadly, two of the heritage trees and two others are not looking great. But we had a very dry few weeks and water is an important issue at the […]

Kevin made sure all the necessary equipment for erecting poles and installing wires for our first espaliers are there. Great fun! We also enlarged and maintained as many tree pits as possible. May 2023 – Preparing the base for a shed Our main task this month is to prepare the […]