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Fame at last! I’ve graced the pages of The English Garden Magazine, with a feature in which my commitment to agroecological practices and the stewarding of heritage varieties took centre...

After a Spring that proved challenging for many growers, unpredictable rain, winds and temperatures continued into Summer and Autumn. At the nursery, this resulted in a slow start to the...

Tree Council Volunteers attend a planting day to create a coppice of 500 sweet chestnut and cherry trees It’s been a seriously busy season packing and sending out orders of...

With chilly nights hungrily encroaching on meagre daylight hours, and the striking colours of Autumn fading with Winter’s frosty grasp, Nature is preparing for a period of rest and hibernation....

The Tanat Reviver tells a story of resilience: of one veteran apple tree, discovered in the gardens of a Tanat valley resident back in 2006, now in the National Welsh...

Last month we welcomed a barnful of local stallholders and visitors to the nursery for our Summer Pop-Up. The atmosphere was buzzing and it was fantastic to be able to...

This weekend, I made a visit to the Swansea Orchard Project to tutor in summer grafting and pruning as part of an accredited Certificate in Community Orcharding at a beautiful...

Leading a guided tour of the site at our Maker’s Market last month With the Summer Solstice already behind us, and lots of growth at the nursery, it seems like...

The winter planting season is nearly here. I have a few hundred trees left!! Get in touch if you want me to send a stock list before they run out.

The trees are bulging with fruit. We're enjoying Discovery apples and Beth pears at the moment...

We’re nearing the end of the planting season and I have very limited stock left. If you want to order trees it’s best to get in touch. . The field...

The nursery is now officially in conversion to organic status. Here’s something I’ve written about plans for the new site. It’s unfinished but nearly there.. I run a one acre...

I was struggling to take good photos that encapsulated the range of different trees, plants and wildlife in the nursery so I made this short film with my friend Vera...

tinified (6) We’ve started lifting trees now they are dormant. Once they are dug out of the ground they are ‘heeld in’ to a bed with very light soil where...

Take a look at our collection of rare borderland apple varieties.

I’ve just removed the grafting tape off grafts I did in June. Here’s a nicely taken chip bud with the bud looking healthy…

Even a barrow full of rotten apples looks good…

Just pruned this ‘Meridian ‘ espalier

DCIM100MEDIADJI_0004.JPG We have now bought 6.5 acres of south facing pasture land on which we will move the nursery to over the next few years. These photos were taken this...

The Orchard Project have been running a certified course in community orcharding over the last two years. I’ve been teaching the summer pruning and grafting part. Saturday’s session at Audley...

We’re using willow wood chip as a mulch for the nursery and orchard. The willow is growing in a corner of the nursery, split into two sections and coppiced on...

We’ve begun chip budding apples in the nursery

Just made the first batch of bio fertiliser for spraying the trees in the nursery and orchard.

These sweet hedgerow plums were found growing near Oswestry and are known locally as sugar plums. I will be grafting them onto plum rootstocks next week and trees will be...