Orchards we've helped plant

Published ON 14 MARCH 2016. Brighton Permaculture Trust planted 152 fruit trees with local partners at eleven locations last year. Here’s an update on the various projects we’ve been involved with this winter. Brighton & Hove Racehill Community Orchard, Whitehawk This winter we completed planting at Racehill Community Orchard. Sixty six apples, pears, plums & damsons were planted this winter, taking…

ON 28 APRIL 2015. Brighton Permaculture Trust is proud to report that, working with a number of partners, last winter we planted 228 grafted fruit or nut trees and 3,505 seedling trees (planted for fruit, nuts, wildlife and shelter). Brighton Permaculture Trust raised much of the funding for this work and began planting orchards sponsored by Infinity Foods.  Contact us if your…

ON 05 MARCH 2015. On 5 March, Brighton Permaculture Trust helped pupils from Buckingham Primary School in Shoreham plant a school orchard. The pupils then used an apple press to make apple juice with the help of juicer extraordinaire  Stephan Gehrels and cooked an apple crumble with Community Chef Robin van Creveld. The event was covered by the Shoreham Herald,…

ON 24 APRIL 2014. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped communities and school to plant more trees than ever before this winter. This season we’ve helped to plant around 170 grafted fruit trees and over 2100 mostly native seed grown trees for fruit, nuts, wildlife and shelter. Here’s an update on the various projects we’ve been involved with…

ON 23 JANUARY 2014. Brighton Permaculture Trust would love to hear from community groups and schools who would like our support to plant new orchards (or restore old orchards). We are making two new funding applications at the moment: In the north of Brighton, we are looking to support communities to plant orchards in Hollingbury, Coldean,…

ON 22 DECEMBER 2013. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped Brighton Aldridge Community Academy plant an Alumni Orchard this December. The Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) planted eight trees during their alumni event on 4 December 2013, with each tree dedicated to a previous pupil. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped current BACA students to prepare the ground for planting, while…

ON 24 APRIL 2014. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped communities and school to plant more trees than ever before this winter. This season we’ve helped to plant around 170 grafted fruit trees and over 2100 mostly native seed grown trees for fruit, nuts, wildlife and shelter. Here’s an update on the various projects we’ve been involved with…

ON 23 JANUARY 2014. Brighton Permaculture Trust would love to hear from community groups and schools who would like our support to plant new orchards (or restore old orchards). We are making two new funding applications at the moment: In the north of Brighton, we are looking to support communities to plant orchards in Hollingbury, Coldean,…

ON 22 DECEMBER 2013. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped Brighton Aldridge Community Academy plant an Alumni Orchard this December.   The Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) planted eight trees during their alumni event on 4 December 2013, with each tree dedicated to a previous pupil. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped current BACA students to prepare the ground for planting,…

ON 17 OCTOBER 2013. Many of the orchards we’ve helped over the years are now running their own Apple events, including Wish Park Community Garden in Hove. Sarah O’Dair of Wish Park Community Garden said: “Apple Day at Wish Park community orchard was a great success – plenty of people came along with fruit to be crushed.…

ON 10 JUNE 2013. Brighton Permaculture Trust are pleased to announce that further funding has been secured to support work at a further five orchards this winter, four in Brighton and one in Arundel. Thanks to a long lease from Brighton and Hove City Council for the Racehill Orchard Brighton Permaculture Trust has been awarded £25,000…

ON 17 MARCH 2013. With our partners Action in rural Sussex and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, a number of new small orchards have been created in schools locally and a little further afield in Sussex. We have helped pupils and community members to create orchards that, all being well, will bear fruit for 50 to 100 years. Also,…

ON 13 FEBRUARY 2013. by Warren Carter “This is always a busy time of year for Brighton Permaculture Trust, when plans for orchard planting come to fruition. This year they have been particularly busy in Moulsecoomb…. With support from Harvest, Brighton Permaculture Trust are helping to transform Moulsecoomb back to its original vision of being a garden…

ON 19 JANUARY 2013. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped The Bevy at Bevendean (set to be the first co-operative pub in the UK) plant fruit trees in what is to become an edible pub garden. Read more in The Argus. by Warren Carter The snow had finally melted, so, on a cold but sunny Sunday in January, around…

ON 07 DECEMBER 2012. We will helping schools and communities across Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex to plant many more fruit trees this winter. We have been working hard with our partners Action in rural Sussex and Brighton and Hove Food Partnership to enable a number of exciting projects and are using a increasingly complex funding arrangements…

ON 07 DECEMBER 2012. Press release: Moulsecoomb Primary School Assisted by Brighton Permaculture Trust, local schools and community members are planting an orchard on Woollard’s Field, the site of The Keep development, which will provide a new archive centre for the county on the edge of Brighton. The idea for an old fashioned community orchard on the…

ON 28 JUNE 2012. In March 2012, Brighton Permaculture Trust worked with London Road Station Partnership, a group of neighbours living near the London Road Station in Brighton, to plant a community garden on neglected station land. This 10-minute YouTube video explains the history of the partnership and shows the transformation that’s been made.

ON 01 MAY 2012. Bryn Thomas and CHEKLINK Anne-Marie Bur were interviewed by the BBC in January 2012 as they helped schoolchildren from Manor Primary plant an orchard. Post by Brighton Permaculture Trust.

ON 21 MARCH 2012. by Anne-Marie Bur This winter we’ve helped schools and communities plant eighteen small orchards across Sussex.  With our partners Action in rural Sussex, we have worked with hundreds of schoolchildren in twelve schools and community members of mixed ages in six other locations to create orchards. At most schools, we carried out an initial…

ON 06 MARCH 2012. by Grant Scott Having met Bryn Thomas on the Intro to Permaculture course, conversation turned to regenerating public places by planting fruit trees. I mentioned that I was Chairperson of Craven Vale Community Association, and perhaps we could get around to planting some fruit trees on a council estate in Brighton. Some funding was made…

ON 09 JANUARY 2012. A community orchard has been planted in Littlehampton with the help of Brighton Permaculture Trust, in conjunction with Arun Parks staff, Arun and Worthing Mind, volunteers from St. Winefrides Community Garden, and the Arun Wellbeing Team. Twenty-seven fruit trees were planted with the aim of encouraging the community to come together for…

ON 09 JANUARY 2012. Brighton Permaculture Trust supported Chichester District Council’s Parks and Open Spaces team along with Transition Chichester in the planting of yet another community orchard recently.  Local schoolchildren and rotary club members also lended a hand to plant apple, pear and plum trees, along with a wildlife hedge.   Bryn Thomas, who manages…