Community Market Garden and Orchard Volunteering

We hope to see some of you on the market garden field for another day of tree maintenance and some thistle chopping. Please bring gardening gloves, drinks and snacks.  Maybe rainwear, maybe sunhats! Who knows?

We plan to take the tree guards off, weed and re-mulch each tree, then replace the guards.

The Orchard Link group is planning an event in October for people who want to plant an orchard, and will be using our orchard as an exemplar so we want our trees to look smart!  A general site tidy up would be in order as well.

There might be sheep grazing within a fenced area on the orchard so we must work around them.

The Community Market Garden and Orchard project are planning Regular Volunteer Days, twice a month, following the successful orchard planting, potato planting and tree guard installations.

These are on the Third Thursday of each month from 4pm to 7pm and the Last Saturday of each month from 10am to 3pm

Come and visit the 10-acre site in its amazing setting. See what we’ve done so far and get to know the land by joining us to work there for an hour or two if you can. We’re growing potatoes again this year, and garlic, and are working on plans for a much broader range of vegetables and other crops in future years once legal formalities for the land are complete and we can begin fundraising. The project needs many different kinds of skills and interests. There’s lots to be done through the summer, from weeding, mulching and trimming to (we hope) harvesting. Or come and meet us just as an interested supporter as the project continues to develop. Bring snacks and drinks, gloves and tools, and wear stout waterproof footwear.

Sorry, no dogs on the site please. Drop in for as long as you want!

Children and young people under the age of 18 to be accompanied by a responsible adult please

FFI email marketgarden@ssb.org.uk

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To find out more about Community Market Garden and Orchard the see the project page: https://ssb.org.uk/projects/market-garden-orchard/