( Newsletter readers: To see this report with more illustrations please view it in your browser : http://orchard.weaverham.org.uk/chairmans-report-2017-2018/ ) Since our last AGM scions have been taken from the Wareham Russet apple tree in Tower Lane and from other Cheshire heritage apple trees growing in the Trafford Drive Allotments Community Orchard. Harry Delaney and […]
To comply with charity and company law we are required to hold an Annual General Meeting, which this year will take place at 7:30 on Tuesday 16th October at The Scout Hall, Church Street, Weaverham – details as per the attached agenda. I am also attaching the minutes of last year’s AGM. Our chair Tina Johnson […]
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Please read the important notice at the foot of this article Horticultural experts from Reaseheath College are helping to bring a rare Cheshire apple tree back from the brink of extinction by grafting saplings for a community orchard. Members of the Weaverham Community Memorial Orchard Group approached our horticultural department for help in preserving the […]
Spring is here and our apple tree saplings will soon be in blossom. Our team of volunteers started planting grafted saplings early in January this year bringing the total number planted to 150. Later this year we intend to plant Cheshire Prune (damson) and Hazel Pear saplings. Hazel Pears are associated with Acton Bridge […]
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2016-2017 Our volunteers continue to work in the orchard tending the trees, putting in strong stakes, weeding, keeping the paths clear and picking up litter and dog poo. Early in March we took scions from the old Wareham Russet tree in Tower Lane as well as from other Cheshire heritage apple trees growing […]
The following will be published in Issue 68 of the Weaverham News THE MEMORIAL ORCHARD As we enter autumn our saplings are dropping their leaves. For the trees (if not for us) it has been a good summer without long dry spells, and they have grown well. So far, out of the 79 trees already […]
To comply with charity and company law we are required to hold an Annual General Meeting, which this year will take place at 7:30 on Tuesday 21st November at The Scout Hall, Church Street, Weaverham – details as per the attached agenda. I am also attaching the minutes of last year’s AGM. Our chair Tina […]
The March edition of the Weaverham News has just dropped through my letterbox, so it is time to update you with the spring contribution from the Memorial Orchard. The same contribution was also published in the Hartford News, but with different directions to the Orchard – so I have combined them here. Most people seem […]