Mini Casa made this casa to celebrate The Orchard Project. The Orchard Project didn't make it and isn't affiliated with Mini Casa.
The blog of The Orchard Project, a UK charity that supports community orchards and fruit growing in towns and cities. Useful for people wanting to plant or manage shared orchards.
Community orchard know-how and fruit growing in urban areas.
The about page describes the charity as dedicated to community orchards. It works with community groups in hubs across England, Scotland and Wales to design new orchards and restore neglected heritage ones, and it runs orchard celebration events and harvest help. Support ranges from designing a whole orchard to rebuilding orcharding skills.
Visit linkSets out a focus on marginalised communities in areas of urban deprivation, with a vision of thriving, biodiverse orchards in the heart of every urban community. The page also explains the charity's choice of terminology for ethnically and culturally diverse people and acknowledges the limits of that language.
Visit linkStories and practical pieces such as turning waste apples from pressing into bokashi, the food security case for community orchards, growing pawpaws through an English summer, and what makes a community activist. The blog mixes hands-on growing with people-focused stories.
Visit linkThe Orchard Project describes itself as the only national charity dedicated solely to community orchards, and its blog reflects that focus. Its work runs through community hubs in England, Scotland and Wales, where groups design new orchards meant to last for decades and restore neglected heritage orchards. The charity also rebuilds orcharding skills, runs celebration events and helps groups make the most of harvests. Blog pieces range from community activism and food security to processing waste apples and growing pawpaws.
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