Posted under Meetings & events
The next meeting of the Friends of the New Mills Community Orchard will be on Thursday 1st April 2010 at 7.30pm at The Queens Arms. All are welcome.
The Queens Arms is at on Church Road at the junction with Union Road. Here’s a map.
Posted under Environmental & Flora & Fauna & Management & Infrastructure
It’s been a cold winter at the orchard. We’re all enjoying the milder spring weather though, and soon the orchard will burst back into life.
There have been a couple of changes to the website, firstly, there is a new section called “In the Orchard” which as well as the Orchard guide, which lists our trees, now includes the comprehensive Orchard Management Plan, provided by the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. It’s a very comprehensive document, based on two very thorough site visits from the Trust - it makes fascinating reading, and will be a useful reference for the coming years.
Also, we would like to encourage you to get involved on this page, by recording any wildlife sightings in the comments at the bottom of the page. If anyone sends pictures, we will try and make a photo gallery on this page too.
And don’t forget to keep looking at our Gallery, especially Pat Stanway’s photograph albums, which are frequently updated.
Posted under General interest & Meetings & events
The Community Orchard’s owl mascot was officially named on 13 February. “Scrumpy” had his big day when he was named by young Tom, who came up with the name. You can see photos of the event on the orchard’s Facebook page. More pictures are available in Pat Stanway’s online collection.
In gratitude for his efforts, Tom was presented with a copy of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.
Scrumpy, along with the other wood carvings on view at the orchard, was created by local artist Andrew Frost.
