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A guide on how to start your own community orchard - from getting support and tackling legal issues to organising working parties and selling produce.
Since the 1950s we have lost 63 per cent of our orchards through development or neglect, and even though we have been able to grow 3,000 varieties of apple in England, almost 70 per cent of apples we buy are imported. Common Ground has worked to interest local communities in creating and saving orchards to provide fruit and nuts, havens for wildlife and places of beauty.
The Community Orchards Handbook shows how to start your own Community Orchard, from getting support and tackling legal issues, to organising work, selling produce and enjoying the fruits of your work together. It gives suggestions on 'apple mapping' and saving local varieties, and practical advice on planting, harvesting and safeguarding your orchard. It also includes a comprehensive resources section and is full of examples of diverse Community Orchard projects across the UK.
Contents
Foreword
1. Orchards and Local Distinctiveness
2. What are Community Orchards?
3. The place of orchards in our landscape and culture
4. Some success stories: land and orchards saved as Community Orchards
5. Community Orchards - how to start
6. Finding out more
7. Planting a Community Orchard
8. Adopting an old orchard
9. Conserving and attracting wild life
10. What to do with the harvest
11. Celebration
12. Safeguarding your orchard
13. Orchard fruits and wild fruits
Appendices
1) Choosing the right legal structure for your Community Orchard
2) Model Constitution, Draft Tenancy Agreement, Draft Donations Policy and Example Risk Assessment 3) Orchard groups and support organisations
4) National contacts
