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,…
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Alumni orchard planted
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,…
More information ...Apple event
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.…
More information ...Orchard funding news
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…
More information ...Orchards planted this winter
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,…
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