APPLE DAY
The event runs from 12-4pm. If you wish to volunteer and get a lift, please
let us know in advance. Early pick up at Culture Fusion ( 8.30am), or make your own way
there later. Volunteer tasks include putting marquees up (and down), helping with the juicing, teas and coffees and selling chutneys, apples etc.
We will be continuing Apple Day preparations, such as harvesting, sorting apples and last minute site checks
The focus will be continuing meadow cutting and fruit harvesting, also clearing for access and around seating in preparation for Apple Day on the 15th of October.
We will be meadow cutting and continuing hedge cutting and fruit harvesting.
The main tasks will be hedge cutting and harvesting fruit
We will be clearing paths to improve access for some upcoming school groups and clearing excess vegetation from under the fruit trees.
If you would like a lift from Culture Fusion at 10am, please get in touch.
This week we will be focusing on cutting grass beneath the fruit frees, extending support for the hops, watering and cutting paths.
If you would like to join us and have a lift from Culture Fusion at 10, please get in touch.
We will be at the orchard from 10.30-3.30 and tasks will include finishing painting the wooden structure Belvedere, before any climbers get in full swing for summer and building a basic frame for netting, to protect some of the fruit bushes.
If you would like a lift in the minibus please get in touch.
Bowling Park Community Orchard is looking particularly lovely at the moment with all the apple and pear blossoms.
We will be there for our volunteer task day, but we are also having an informal Blossom Day from 11-3pm. Feel free to pop in and take an opportunity to have some refreshments and relax and enjoy the ambience of the orchard in full bloom- hopefully!...
We will be continuing our work at Bowling Park Allotments from 10.30-3.30, where we will be tidying up the community orchard, weeding paths and vegetable beds and feeding the trees, in preparation for Blossom Day on Friday 12th May and clearing an allotment for Newby Primary school, which will be largely removing couch grass and hedge cutting.
We will be at Bowling Park Allotments from 10.30-3.30, where we will be tidying up the orchard, weeding paths and vegetable beds and feeding the trees and/or clearing an allotment for Newby Primary school, which will be largely removing couch grass and hedge cutting.
Please get in touch if you would like more info and be at Culture Fusion by 10am if you would like a lift there.
Apple Day 2022 12-4pm. Volunteers welcome to help at the event and setting up in the morning, just let us know if you want to help, or just bring friends and family and come and enjoy the event.
Volunteers welcome as all hands are on deck for general orchard management to get ready for Apple Day this Sunday!
We will be harvesting fruit, completing painting the wooden structure, The Belvedere, fixing benches and carrying out general orchard management in preparation for Apple Day.
We will be harvesting fruit, path clearing, tree care-weeding around trees to make harvesting and collecting windfalls easier, hedge cutting and starting to cut the wildflower meadow using traditional tools, such as sickles and general orchard management.
Sorry for the short notice, but we have a change of plan. We had planned to go to Baildon Moor, but our minibus is being temperamental and the orchard seems a better option as it is closer. Amongst other jobs, the Belvedere structure needs sanding and painting.
We will be fruit picking, weeding around trees, mowing paths and carrying out general orchard management
We will be clearing competing plants from around the base of the fruit trees and mowing paths.
If you'd like a lift in the minibus please be at Culture Fusion by 10am.
We will be looking to complete the winter orchard management jobs such as pruning the soft fruit bushes and dealing with the branches from the hedge cutting and coppicing that we have done.
Winter tasks for the orchard include pruning fruit trees and soft fruits, coppicing, transplanting plants and hedge laying.
If you would like to join us please meet us at the orchard, or be at Culture Fusion ready to set off by 10am, we will be travelling by minibus if it is back from the garage, or walking if not.
If you would like more information please get in touch.
We will be harvesting and sorting through apples in preparation for an apple juicing and dehydrating day the following week at Culture Fusion.
We are also hoping to build a leaf mold bin and if time allows some hedge cutting.
Please let us know if you would like a lift in the minibus. Also, we can reimburse public transport costs if you keep your tickets.
