La Blutellerie Organic Orchard Over the last eighteen months people from Sussex and Lower Normandy have exchanged orchard skills, knowledge and enthusiasm. On two of our trips, Orchard without Borders visited La Blutellerie, near La Ferté Macé, home to an organic orchard of dessert apples. This was of particular interest to those visitors who were…
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Birding In Normandy
Guest post by Dora Clouttick Orchards without Borders, or Vergers sans Frontières in French, is a collaboration between Collines Normandes (CPIE), Brighton Permaculture Trust and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership. It is predominantly funded by INTERREG, an EU fund to promote collaboration between different regions within Europe, and its overall aim is to promote orchards as part of…
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Article covering Normandy trip, from French newspaper l’Orne combattante Orchards without Borders was selected under the European Cross-border Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV A France (Channel) – England, co-funded by the ERDF
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Peter May reports on the Orchards Without Borders visit to Normandy in November 2013. The area of Lower Normandy near the town of Flers, where our visit was based, is gently undulating with small fields, hedgerows and woodlands with the occasional larger forest. Nearby the river Orne flows north towards Caen and the Channel. The…
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Apple Day Exchange Article in Ouest-France, published Tuesday 17 September 2013 (translated) A delegation from Bocage will travel Saturday to an apple festival in Brighton, England, as the first step in a European exchange project. On Saturday, a delegation of five people – consisting of Évelyne Ramon from Collines Normandes CPIE, two representatives of the Bocage association Les Croqueurs…
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