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School Orchards
Mary JacksonLearning through LandscapesProjects manager
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Why orchards?
• What is an orchard?
• Reconnecting with the natural and wider
world
• Promoting healthy eating
• Learning to cook healthy and traditional
recipes
• Useful for lessons right across the curriculum
• Engaging with local people and local
traditions
• Enhancing your school grounds
• Low maintenance
• Lasting legacy
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Planning your
orchard
• Where to plant?
• How much space?
• Good drainage
• Reasonable soils
• Air drainage
• Sunshine
• Shelter
• What other
features do you
want?
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What space have you got?
• Where are we now?
• Where would we like to be?
• How can we get there?
• Making the changes
• Where are we now?
• Let’s go outside….
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Choosing species
and varieties
• Apples
• Pears
• Plumbs
• Bush fruit
• Blackcurrants
• Gooseberries
• Nuts
• Hazel
• Walnut
• Exotics
• Peaches
• Passion fruit
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Choosing varieties
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Pollination groups
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The importance of root stock
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What will your orchard look like?
• How big will the trees grow?
• Who will look after them?
• Who will use the orchard area?
• What will they use it for?
– Lessons
– Relaxing
– Socialising
– Cooking and eating
– Events
– Displaying art
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Meadow orchard
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Other features in your orchard
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Step over
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Espalier
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Cordons
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Bush trees
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Growing in planters
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Hazel bushes
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Planting
• Bare root - November to March
• Container grown - any time of year
but needs extra care
• Plant so that the graft joint is above
the level of the soil
• Back fill and firm up - water well on
planting
• Protecting your trees
• Weeding and watering
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Aftercare• Celebrate its opening! and first harvest.
• See if there are local people who can help
• Pruning - annually or biannually, depending
on format of trees
• Pests and diseases - most can be dealt with
organically
• Remove fruitlets in years one and two to
support stronger growth
• Thin overcrowded clusters of fruit - leaving
one or two per cluster
• Check tree ties around supporting stakes
• Allocate responsibility for maintenance and
add to school calendar
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Other activities
• Grafting traditional
varieties and
selling or donating
them
• Tasting and
cooking
• Celebrating Apple
Day
(www.commonground.org.uk)
• Juicing
• Creating art
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Curriculum links
• Poetry, song and
stories
• Instructions
• Painting and
sculpture
• Textiles and murals
• Longest length of
peal
• Estimating and
measuring
• Selling your produce
• Designing seating
• Cooking
• Pollination
• Investigating
browning of cut
apples
• Investigating wildlife
in your orchard
• Research apples in
your local shops
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Experimentation
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Mapping
Travelling fruit
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Cooking
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Art
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Further help and advice
• www.ltl.org.uk go to resources
and training - search for orchard
• www.fruitfullcommunities.org -
for advice on creating your
orchard
• www.commonground.org.uk -
apple day
• www.orangepippin.com -
traditional apple names
• www.orchardnetwork.org.uk - to
find your local community
orchard
• www.theorchardproject.org.uk -
national charity creating and
caring for orchards