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• Tree Planting in The Community Orchard

  Our second very successful tree planting morning was held today in the COCO (Conderton and Overbury Community Orchard). We had to cancel the planned session last weekend as the ground was so frozen the nursery's couldn't get the trees out of the... Posted Feb 03 2013, 04:52 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: fruit tree, perry pears, COCO, cider, apples [Edit Tags]

• First Trees Planted in the COCO

  Today was the first ever planting day for COCO (Conderton and Overbury Community Orchard) and what a great day it was. It started as a crisp sunny morning with brilliant blue sky and a light frost on the ground. Derek and Gordon gave everyone a quick... Posted Jan 15 2012, 09:11 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Orchards, Orchard Planting, Orchard Group, Trees, perry pears, apple, COCO, cider [Edit Tags]

• Pears for your Heirs

  Last week we started our programme of fruit tree pruning in the Conderton Orchard under our Higher Level Stewardship Scheme Capital works programme. The orchard has had little attention for a number of years and the trees are very old and fragile, but... Posted Dec 20 2011, 09:18 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: higher level stewardship, fruit tree, perry pears, pruning [Edit Tags]