Socially Distanced Community Orchard Tidy

The Community Orchard has been a feature of the site for a few years now, with the original trees purchased through a grant funded by Edible Essex. Over the years Peter Hunnable prunes and keeps the trees in shape, and more recently Kevin Baskill has regularly trimmed all the grass around the site to keep it tidy.

None of this, contains the weeds and growth in and around the base of the trees, and this morning a group of intrepid plot holders kindly agreed to clear all the base of the trees from weeds, tidy up and water the 40 trees within the orchard.



The layout of the orchard is reasonably ideal in that all the trees are 3-4 meters apart in rows of 4 which helped ensure we all kept within the rules of social distancing which currently prevail.



Various different styles or approaches were on display and a few photographs from this morning are included in the article, as the team made short work of the task at hand.



A huge thank you to Peter Hunnable, Peter Caffrey, Kevin Baskill, Rob Hirst, Richard Harris, Alex Horne, Tony Holbrook, Ian Moore and Karen Lawrence for all the effort involved.