A new generation of orchards born during lockdown is keeping old traditions alive.
Set on a farm rescued by the National Trust, the site once had just six lonely apple trees, but now there are more than a hundred, bearing dozens of different varieties.
"What better thing to do than come out here on a lovely day like today helping the environment, helping the community?" says one participant, looking up from chopping apples.The revival in community orchards is being fuelled by an interest in growing healthy local food, spurred in part by Covid lockdowns. With the cost-of-living crisis biting into people's food budgets, this year's bumper crop couldn't have come at a better time.
The Royal Horticultural Society has seen an increase in gardening groups growing crops since the pandemic, including planting fruit trees and maintaining orchards. The vast majority of these heritage apples never make it to the supermarket shelves and their names are disappearing from the lexicon. Jim Arbury of the RHS is on a mission to revive "lost" fruits through his remarkable knowledge of everything apple.
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