SepApple day
240 visitors, and 1,180 kg for the food bank
46 volunteers ran the press all day. Everything we couldn't juice went to the Ottery Hythe food bank in our own crates, every week of the picking.
1,180 kgfruit given640bottles pressed
The orchard almanac · once a month
What your gifts did this year
Written by Nkem and the team for everyone who gives.
OctWinter pruning
96 of 140 trees pruned, and the chipper's booked
Six Saturdays since apple day, the old block is two-thirds done. Here's what your gifts paid for this month, and what's next.
96trees pruned31volunteers22trees mulched
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Earlier updates, in short
AugYoung trees
New guards on all 38 young trees
Rabbits took the bark off two whips in July. Seed gifts paid for 38 new spiral guards and stakes, fitted over two Saturdays.
38guards fitted£190from Seed gifts
JulDry summer
Mulch kept the old block alive through July
Six weeks without rain. The rings of chip from last winter's brash held the water in; we lost no trees, against four the summer before.
0trees lost9 tof chip spread
JunThe year ahead
The orchard year, and where each gift goes
Winter is pruning and planting, spring is blossom watch, summer is thinning and mulch, autumn is picking and the press. Monthly gifts spread the cost across all of it.
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