Wednesday 25th September 2024
Warminster Community Orchard
The current stars of the crop are the Redloves. We have two varieties: Serena and Era and both yield a beautiful claret coloured juice as their skin implies. This will be a separate pressing on Sunday 13th to keep it pure. Come and help pick Saturday 12th from 2pm so that we are poised for the next day – its a fast moving scene once we get going. A walker commented ‘they don’t taste very nice’ but they, like the majority of the fruit on the Orchard, are to make apple juice or cider. Or apple cider vinegar.
And last but certainly not least, behind the scenes a lot of form-filling has been going on: We have just been successful in our bid for funding from the Coronation Living Heritage Fund! Our allocation enables us to buy some more apple trees to complete rows, a lime tree, a second mulberry and sundries such as tree ties and stakes. Part of the funding gives the Orchard a monolith of oak to represent the CLHF and will have the date of the first planting and a tribute to the late Colin French, whose drive brought the Orchard into existence. The CLHF will be funding Orchards all over the country. How great is that!