#orchards — Public Fediverse posts

The Orchard Project Blog
"The Orchard Project is the only national charity dedicated solely to creating, maintaining and celebrating community orchards."
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/

#SolarPunkSunday #CommunityOrchards #TheOrchardProject #Orchards #Fruit #FruitTrees #UrbanOrchards #Blogs

"By October 2024, almost 4,000 #greenhouses were destroyed, #orchards were bulldozed, & almost all #cows, #sheep & #poultry were eliminated. By April 2025, more than 80% of Gaza’s #farmland had been destroyed..."

The Orchard Project
Community Food Forests: A Guide to Creating Your Own
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/A-Guide-to-Creating-Community-Food-Forests.pdf

#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #FoodForests #UrbanForests #Forests #EcoSystems #Community #Food #Orchards

✍️Forest #wildfires, on-farm #fertiliser strategies & protection for fruit #orchards experts are called to apply for the @eucapnetwork Focus Group experts by 31 July 2026.
Learn more👇
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✍️Ειδικοί στους τομείς των δασικών πυρκαγιών, των στρατηγικών λίπανσης στα αγροκτήματα και της προστασίας οπωρώνων καλούνται να υποβάλουν αίτηση συμμετοχής στις Ομάδες Εστίασης (Focus Groups)του @eucapnetwork έως τις 31 Ιουλίου 2026.
Μάθετε περισσότερα👇
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eucapnetwork-fgwildfireprevention-fgonfarmfertilisers-share-7475077883951243265-746L/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACcmbCYBCukF73CwAXB4AAJkSjFrBt8bVuY

I didn't know peach trees only live 10-20 years, dang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu8VHqL83dU

#farming #peaches #PeachTrees #orchards

✍️ Farmers, foresters, advisors, researchers & other innovators with specific knowledge and experience in forest #wildfires, on-farm #fertiliser strategies & protection for fruit #orchards may apply for the @eucapnetwork call for Focus Group experts by 31 July 2026.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fgwildfireprevention-eucapnetwork-forestry-share-7476190300470816769-y02o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACcmbCYBCukF73CwAXB4AAJkSjFrBt8bVuY

Early summer - when work in the orchard isn't a chore.
#summer #nature #orchards

So, next week the apple blossoms should be blooming in my favorite orchard (atop a hill in the next town over). I'll be able to gauge things by looking at the neighborhood trees. Taking in the blossoms is one of my traditions. Back when I was a kid, we had both apple and pear trees in our yard, and lying in the grass atop a blossom carpet always grounded me (and still does). (Pic is from last year.)

#FootpathFriday #AppleBlossomSeason #SpendTimeOutdoors #AppleBlossom #Orchards #Maine

How to support Maryland vineyards after devastating crop losses

“We still have wine to sell”: How to support Maryland v…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine ##sort #baltimore #degreeday #farmer #Fruit #lastweek #LoewVineyards #loss #lot #luxuryproduct #Maryland #marylandfarms #Marylandvineyards #marylandwines #orchards #people #thing #US #Vineyard #vineyards #WBAL #WBAL-TV #were #wines #year
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2616792/how-to-support-maryland-vineyards-after-devastating-crop-losses/

Insectivorous Birds In Your Vineyards And Orchards Reduces Insects Pests

"Research documents that insectivorous birds provide significant eco-friendly pest control services to winegrape growers when they are provided nestboxes."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#birds #insects #ecofriendly #PestControl #Vineyards #Orchards https://grrlscientist.medium.com/insectivorous-birds-in-your-vineyards-and-orchards-reduces-insects-pests-173cf3b0c15f

Insectivorous Birds In Your Vineyards And Orchards Reduces Insects Pests

"Research documents that insectivorous birds provide significant eco-friendly pest control services to winegrape growers when they are provided nestboxes."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #insects #ecofriendly #PestControl #Vineyards #Orchards https://grrlscientist.medium.com/insectivorous-birds-in-your-vineyards-and-orchards-reduces-insects-pests-173cf3b0c15f

Insectivorous Birds In Your Vineyards And Orchards Reduces Insects Pests

"Research documents that insectivorous birds provide significant eco-friendly pest control services to winegrape growers when they are provided nestboxes."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#birds #insects #ecofriendly #PestControl #Vineyards #Orchards https://grrlscientist.medium.com/insectivorous-birds-in-your-vineyards-and-orchards-reduces-insects-pests-173cf3b0c15f

🍏 Every apple holds a small universe of texture, color, and orchard biology. Bite, browning, and blossom reveal quiet patterns shaped by physics and living systems.

✍️ Explore the hidden architecture of apples: https://TPC8.short.gy/SV78UWo6

🌱 A single fruit can carry many stories at once.

#apples #science #foodscience #orchards #TPC8

Wassailing, which I always associated with spiced hard cider and Christmas carols, turns out (also) to be a pagan fertility rite focussing on fruit trees, which is gaining in popularity!

Inside Europe did a story on this the week before last (starts at 48:15)...

https://www.dw.com/en/more-trouble-for-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer/audio-76057779

More detail on the celebration here
https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/traditions/wassailing/

#MorrisDancing #Orchards #PaganTrivia

2026 research includes historic orchards in Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/culturallandscapes/historic-orchards-in-national-parks.htm and https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/historyculture/historicalorchards.htm and https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&inst=01NAL_INST&collectionId=81279629860007426 and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #rain #apple Image credit (1) R. C. Steadman / USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection and (2) Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #travel #phenology #plants #orchard #orchards #history #culture #usda #pomology

Interest in installing solar panels in vineyards is growing. Here's a paper from Australia that examines their impact on pear trees & fruit.

tl/dr Panels created shade, which reduced yield, sugar concentration & color, but lessened impacts of extreme weather (heat and hail).

This study used fixed panels at 45° and 5°, with the latter causing greater crop losses, but power production was similar.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423826000555

#Agrivoltaism #SolarPower #Orchards #FruitTrees #Research

https://opencollective.com/great-northern-fruit-moot/events/great-northern-fruit-moot-2026-5845352c/updates/fruit-moot-2026-timetable#new-update

I won't be attending due to too much on at work. Last minute 'publicity' for Northern fruit growers? #sheffield #allotment #orchards #cider #permaculture

Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food

"Encouraging tiny falcons to nest in fruit orchards reduces fruit loss to birds and safeguards against contamination by microbial pathogens"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#kestrels #birds #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards #Food #Orchards #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter https://medium.com/grrlscientist/kestrel-friendly-cherry-orchards-may-produce-safer-food-9ce9604579c1

Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food

"Encouraging tiny falcons to nest in fruit orchards reduces fruit loss to birds and safeguards against contamination by microbial pathogens"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#kestrels #birds #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards #Food #Orchards #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter https://medium.com/grrlscientist/kestrel-friendly-cherry-orchards-may-produce-safer-food-9ce9604579c1

Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food

"Encouraging tiny falcons to nest in fruit orchards reduces fruit loss to birds and safeguards against contamination by microbial pathogens"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#kestrels #birds #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards #Food #Orchards #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter https://medium.com/grrlscientist/kestrel-friendly-cherry-orchards-may-produce-safer-food-9ce9604579c1

It’s #apple time! A paradise of colours in regions with traditional #Streuobstwiesen, a very special form of #meadow #orchards meanwhile becoming rare in Europe. And I had to experience a culture clash of people who are afraid of #nature because they think it is dirty and dangerous:
https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/61d2a583-be31-40e5-8b0a-1bbab9da1335

#reconnectWithNature #apples #gardening #newsletter #soil #health #taste #food #farmLife #culturalHeritage #alienation #natureDeficit #ecoPsychology

🌱 Grafting: Growing together Take one plant, join it to another. Watch them heal into one life. Gardeners have done this for centuries, saving heirlooms, shaping orchards, and carrying flavors forward through time.

✍️ Read the full story here: https://TPC8.short.gy/c6lmKukd

🌱 A graft is a quiet promise of resilience, where two plants grow stronger together as one.

#Grafting #Horticulture #Gardening #Orchards #Vineyards #TreeCare #PlantBiology #BotanicalWonders #PlantScience #Botany #Nature #TPC8

The Steyning Community Orchard (SCO) aims to restore Steyning’s historic orchards, plant new orchards and encourage the local community to grow and use locally grown fruit
https://steyningcommunityorchard.org/about/

#CommunityOrchards #Trees #FruitTrees #SolarPunkSunday #Steyning #Sussex #Orchards #Fruit

Crowborough Community Orchard Apple Day 2025
Saturday 18 October, 10am-12pm.
Herne Road, Crowborough TN6 2NT
https://crowboroughcommunityorchard.org/

#Crowborough #CommunityOrchards #AppleTrees #Trees #SussexApples #Apples #Orchards #SolarPunkSunday #Sussex

Standen Street Orchard Apple Day 2025

Sunday 12 October, 1.30 p.m.
Standen Street, Iden Green, Kent TN17 4LB.
"Apple Day is open to all, with free parking and a whole variety of activities and stalls, as well as the opportunity to explore the 50+ acre orchard..."
https://www.sffco.org.uk/

#AppleTrees #Trees #KentApples #SolarPunkSunday #Apples #Kent #Orchards #CommunityOrchards