Tuesday 21st February 10.00am – 1.00pm
Learn to prune fruit trees of all ages. Hands-on training that demystifies those gardening book diagrams! Create shapely, healthy, productive trees. Includes refreshments and hot drinks in cosy yurt.
Maximum of 12 people on the course. All tools provided, but bring your own if you prefer.
£40.00
Details at http://dayscottage.co.uk/
To book please contact applejuice@dayscottage.co.uk or 01452 813602
Winterbourne Barn’s annual grafting workshop will take place on Saturday 18th February 2023 from 10am to 4pm.
Come and learn how to graft apple trees on this course under the tuition of Ben Raskin, a previous commercial fruit grower and an enthusiastic, effective and very knowledgeable teacher, now Head of Horticulture at The Soil Association.
Visit www.winterbournebarn.org.uk/
Or, to see booking information, go to https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/winterbourne-medieval-barn-trust/t-avvoeav
Learn how to propagate apple and pear fruit trees by budding, in a practical workshop.
These skills are useful to anyone who wishes to propagate fruit and ornamental trees in their garden or allotment. We discuss the technical theory behind budding to propagate onto a variety of rootstocks and also go through the practical elements step by step.10am-1pm at the barn, led by GOT’s committee member and Orchard Revival’s Tim Andrews.
Participants will be able to take home their own grafted tree.
Cost £30 (funds will help support Longney Orchard and the charity of GOT).
To book (essential), please contact Ann Smith: ann@smithcovell.co.uk who will advise on payment methods (please pay in advance), directions/parking etc.
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20th March 2022, 10am -2pm
At Hazelton Little Orchard.
Meet in Hazelton village Hall, GL54 4DX to walk to the orchard
For further information contact Martin Hayes via martin@glosorchards.org or on 07900985679
Supported by Farming in Protected Landscapes funding.
Grafting Workshop, 14th March 2022 6.30pm – 9pm at Hazleton Village Hall, GL54 4DX
£20 per person
Learn to graft fruit trees in this practical , hands-on session.
Lead by experts from Gloucestershire Orchard Trust, participants will learn the theory, before putting it in to practice on their very
own tree, that can be taken home to the garden.
All tools and tree provided.
For further information contact Martin Hayes via martin@glosorchards.org or on 07900985679
Supported by Farming in Protected Landscapes funding.
Tim Andrews is always busy. A dad of two, teacher, GOT committee member and owner of Orchard Revival Cider, it is not hard to fill every spare minute. Below is his summary of orchard activities so far this winter!
Pocketts Orchard, WhitminsterWe have continued to work with Cotswold Canals Connected to look after and restore the traditional orchard at Whitminster next to the canal. A particular highlight was the talk given by Jonathan Briggs, a previous GOT chair, about mistletoe. Nearly all the old trees have their yearly prune and we have cleared quite a bit of excess brambles. We await the results of the DNA testing that took place in the autumn and we hope to do some more grafting at the start of March. There is a lot planned in the summer such as fencing and building a field shelter which should allow us to control the grazing better. Work parties are held on the 2nd Saturday of every month. Please contact Peter Savage peter.savage@gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk if you’d like to join us.
Tree plantingWe managed to squeeze in some more tree planting on our own land this winter. Another 24 takes us to 358 trees and 131 varieties all on full standard root stocks. Being well watered in the first year of planting we have only lost 1 tree! However, there was little growth due to the dry summer we had last year and also because I hadn’t mulched enough. There is never enough time to do it all! We have also led the creation of a new community orchard at the Ionian, a wood fired pizza restaurant on the A38 near Berkeley. We donated the trees, led the planting session and the Ionian is providing the land and paying for the guards. The pizza, cake and coffee provided certainly energised the volunteers.
PruningOnly a couple of orchards beyond Pocketts orchard managed to get pruned this year. These were a lovely old cider orchard in Halmore and a small orchard in North Nibley. I would have liked to have done more, but my teaching job gets in the way!
Bird boxesThe best bit about being a teacher is the children. This year a group of students in my year group were really keen to do something to improve the environment at my school Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School. So we held a raffle and have raised enough money to buy the materials for 4 blue tit nesting boxes, 1 kestrel box, 14 swift boxes and a sound system to attract the swifts. The students’ next job is constructing the boxes and erecting them on the school site. I am also working with a bird expert in our village, Peter Kirmond. We are hoping to turn North Nibley into a swift hub by erecting lots of swift nesting boxes. For each bottle or pint of our Save Our Swift cider we donate 20p towards the cause.
GraftingWe are also running a number of grafting workshops thanks to a Farming in Protected Landscapes grant. Martin Hayes and David Lindgren, our joint GOT chairs, will be on hand to help to. We’ll be at North Nibley on 1st March, Avening on 8th March and Hazleton on the 14th March. Email Martin if you are interested in attending martin@glosorchards.org.
Tim Andrews https://orchardrevival.co.uk/
Days
Cottage are running two grafting courses in March:
– Sunday 6th March 10.00am – 1.00pm
– Thursday 17th March 10.00am – 1.00pm
Learn the skill of propagating fruit trees by inserting a scion of your chosen variety into a rootstock.
Take your tree home at the end of the session.
Booking essential.
Cost £40.00
To book please contact applejuice@dayscottage.co.uk or 01452 813602
More info at http://dayscottage.co.uk/courses
Grafting Workshop at Avening Village Hall, High Street, GL6 9BE on 9th March 2022 6pm – 9pm
Cost: £20 per person
Learn to graft fruit trees in this practical, hands-on session.
Lead by experts from Gloucestershire Orchard Trust, participants will learn the theory, before putting it in to practice on their very own tree, that can be taken home to the garden.
All tools and tree provided.
For further information contact Martin Hayes via martin@glosorchards.org or on 07900985679
Supported by Farming in Protected Landscapes funding.
The Ionian Farmshop and Kitchen on the A38 near Berkeley have a tree planting event on 19th February to design and make your community orchard. With our own Tim Andrews to show them how.
They say:
“Give back and volunteer at The Ionian as we embark on our ambition to design and make your community orchard! Aiming to provide vital green space where you can interact with nature have space to learn skills such as planting, pruning and grafting. We can all do our bit in the battle against climate change, help wildlife and our own well being!
We’ll be collaborating with the amazing Tim Andrews who will share his knowledge with us on reviving traditional orchards. We need as many volunteers as possible for this project, any help will very much appreciated. To get involved, please email theionian.a38@gmail.com. We are so proud to attract and make people from all walks of life and every background feel welcome at The Ionian, we encourage you to roll up your sleeves, lets work together on creating a sustainable future! ”
Days Cottage are running two pruning courses in February:
– Sunday 6th February 10.00am – 1.00pm
– Thursday 10th February 10.00am – 1.00pm
Booking essential.
Learn to prune fruit trees of all ages. Hands-on training that demystifies those gardening book diagrams!
Create shapely, productive trees.
Cost £35.00
To book please contact applejuice@dayscottage.co.uk or 01452 813602
More info at http://dayscottage.co.uk/courses
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