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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Visit to Normandy
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…
More information ...Book: Apples & Orchards in Sussex
Apples and Orchards in Sussex Action in rural Sussex and Brighton Permaculture Trust are proud to have collaborated on Apples and Orchards in Sussex, a paperback book authored by Brian Short with contributions and editing by our very own Peter May and Anne-Marie Bur as well as Gail Vines. This book reflects a new enthusiasm for making fruit-growing in the county…
More information ...Book: Our Apple Orchards
In recent years we have worked with over one thousand children. Together we have planted orchards, often with rare Sussex apple varieties, cooked and juiced apples in schools, housing estates, parks and village recreation grounds across Sussex. Inspired by these experiences, we created the children’s book Our Apple Orchards with our partners Action in rural Sussex. The…
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