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  • Merry Christmas and a fruitful New Year from Orchard Revival

    Merry Christmas and a fruitful New Year from Orchard Revival

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    We have made some amazing progress with our field surveys for National Orchard Inventory for Scotland this year. Many of  our local facilitators and volunteer surveyors are still out there in the field, and in front of their computer screens, getting as much done as possible before we start writing the survey results up for our final report in March 2017.

    We would like to thank all our collaborating organisations, local facilitators and their volunteers for all the hard work and enthusiasm – we could not have done it without you! We hope you get some well deserved rest and merriment over the festive period.

    We thought we’d share a poem penned by one of the volunteers, and which to us sums up the essence of orchard mapping experience and the hopes for their fruitful future rather well. May we enjoy, protect and eat the fruit of our Scottish orchards for many years to come!

     

    Apple Naming

    (by Jane, first published on Tayport Community Garden blog here)

    Lord Lambourne, James Grieve,
    Charles Ross, Beauty of Bath,
    Apples named.
    Early fruit, fruit holding to branches in November late
    Covering the whole season
    With cookers and eaters
    Green and smooth
    Red and shining
    Green and brown
    Rough and sweet
    Sour
    Falling around the trees
    Planted for love
    “we love the blossom”
    For hope
    200 years ago, 31 years ago when we were young
    “Cobnuts to remind me of my home”
    In the South
    They never fruited
    “Life gets in the way”
    But
    Un-managed, unloved, surrounded by weeds and fallen fruit
    The trees grow anyway
    An orchard
    Once you know it is there
    Protect it
    Enjoy it
    Count the trees
    Name them
    Eat the fruit.

     

    See you all in 2017!