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.…
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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,…
More information ...Thanks from Moulsecoomb
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…
More information ...The Bevy Pub 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…
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