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Free Fruit Trees for Forest Fields

Abundance Nottingham on behalf of Forest Fields Orchard | 16.11.2009 14:47 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Health

FREE FRUIT TREES FOR FOREST FIELDS!
We've got 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields this winter, and we're looking for gardens to plant them in. So if you've got the space - and you don't need as much as you might think - get in touch.

The trees - apples, pears and plums - will be yours to keep, and so will the fruit which they produce. We only ask that you undertake to look after the tree - and we'll be on hand with as much advice as you need - and that if you end up with more fruit than you can eat then you contact us so that we can do something useful with it.
The planting will take place in January, and we'll contact you nearer the time to confirm the date. On the day, you will need to provide access to the planting position, and some water to give the tree a good start in life. Everything else - the hole, the compost, the stake, the mulch - will be provided by us. Of course, if you want to take part in the planting on the day, you'd be very welcome.

Please note that if you live in a rented property, we will need to know that you have the property-owner's permission.
Priority will be given to people living in Forest Fields and Sherwood Rise, but if you live outside those areas and are still interested, please get in touch.

If you're interested, please email  forestfieldsorchard@gmail.com with the following information:
- your address
- your preferred tree (apple, pear, or plum: note that it may not be possible to provide everyone with their first choice)
- whether the planting site is your front garden or back garden, and anything else you think we may need to know about the planting site.


We look forward to hearing from you!
Jon and the team at forestfieldsorchard


p.s. Feel free to pass this email on to anyone you think might be interested; or just talk to your neighbours about it.

Abundance Nottingham on behalf of Forest Fields Orchard

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Guerilla orcharding in forests

17.11.2009 15:42

You might have noticed that those morons in Government are paying farmers to plant trees to do away with fields. There are already too many people for the food we can grow on these islands, so if you can , plant trees that will produce food in forests.

So far Walnuts, and Chestnuts collected in Wales by Lostit are growing, and there has been fair success growing the kernels collected from Monkey Puzzle trees. Araucaria have to have both genders of tree reasonably close to bring fruit from wind pollination. Anyone know how to identify the females and take cuttings - it is often easier to get cuttings to taken from seedlings to root than from trees. Expert knowledge needed. We hear of twelve or eighteen Monkey Puzzle trees being able to feed a person for a year.

Small Walnut trees will need a lot of protection from Deer. Many trees need protection from squirrels. Both make good eating,

Nutter


Grow Food Not Feed

19.11.2009 00:40


I fully endorse your sentiment to "plant trees that will produce food in forests", but I'd say plant 'em in most other places too.

There are NOT "already too many people for the food we can grow on these islands" ... there are too many animals on (intensive and extensive) farms being fed food that would better feed people directly, or living on land that would grow far more food if used for direct human consumption.

And where other crops will not grow - plant trees. Trees provide timber for many construction products, for furniture and innumerable other articles, fibre and pulp for paper, textiles (e.g. rayon), and synthetics of many kinds, resins, dyes, drugs, etc, as well as a renewable source of heat and energy.

Trees can contribute to a solution for many of the problems that challenge humankind: to meet the needs of an exploding population from the resources of a finite planet; to maintain water supplies, check floods, droughts, soil erosion and desertification and to reverse global warming, to name a few.

There is a convincing case for phasing out animal farming and giving the land released to forests - convincing, that is, to those not locked in the age old belief that animal products are necessary for human health.

See  http://www.iwvv.org.uk/treesforfuture.htm

Pat
- Homepage: http://www.mclveganway.org.uk/


Gurilla Fruit trees are cheap to buy and plant

20.03.2016 13:54

What a great idea! It bridges the gap between funders who want trees planted with permission, and enthusiasts who would get bogged-down if they tried to get permission.

I got a bit carried-away with a simlar idea which is simply to buy ultra-cheap fruit trees that are sometimes on offer in February and spring, and to plant them without permission. The blog post is on  http://veg-buildlog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/guerrillafruit.html and the gist of it is the list of shops that sell special offer fruit trees, so I'll quote that bit

aldi.co.uk/store-finder - has an offer page on their web site
storelocator.asda.com - apple tree offers sometimes in the porch, not on the web site
bmstores.co.uk/stores - the ones with garden sections
lidl.co.uk/en/785.htm - has an offer page on their web site
poundstretcher.co.uk/find-a-store/ - has an offer page on the web

All of these offers are below £10 a tree.

B&Q have a 10% discount card for anyone with white hair / over 60 on Wednesdays, including sale items. Trees in stock most of the year.

Homebase fruit trees are £10 in stock most of the year and reduce occasionally, like when trying to make space for Xmas trees or during blizzards.

Norfolk's  http://www.sandylanenursery.co.uk/catalogue-retail-2015.html has a clearance offer on bare root apple trees usually only sold to big wholesale customers. Offer details seem to be £5+VAT and delivery, hoping for bulk customers.

Anyone who knows a regular shopper at one of those shops could find out if they ever reduce thier sale stock, which I guess is very rare but possible.

I've also got some of the general links that every other similar blog post has, and stuff about cheap spades but Indiemedia readers probably know how to cadge a spade.

Gurilla Fruit - John Robertson
- Homepage: http://veg-buildlog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/guerrillafruit.html