Food for Life Get Togethers September Network Session (Community Orchards)
Love Trees? Love your Community?
If you are actively involved in running your own community orchard, or it’s something you’ve never really thought of but might be vaguely interested in, this session should be for you.
An orchard is anything more than six trees with edible produce, so can be pretty small. By community we mean non-commercial, so could be in closed school/care home grounds.
Date: Thursday 30th September 2021
Time: 15.45 – 17.00
Venue: Online, via Microsoft Teams (you can access without having Teams downloaded – via a browser)
How to book: Via this eventbrite link which helps us manage attendees and is relatively quick and easy for you to register.
Reasons to attend:
- Receive an update on the Get Togethers programme, with latest links to resources including a new guide to setting up a community orchard.
- Talk & Q&A with our very own horticultural expert within the Soil Association about the benefits of orchards alongside how set up and look after one in your community.
- Eco Schools NI will be speaking about orchards in schools alongside how they fit into the Eco Schools programme criteria.
- Adam Keppel-Green, founder of Crosstown Community Orchard in Knutsford, will share his top tips for setting up and running a community orchard.
- To help us all “connect, share and learn” there will be a chance to ask the speakers questions as well as time to connect in smaller groups with other people attending (this will be optional, but we hope will be useful).