PRUNING MASTER CLASS

PRUNING MASTER CLASS  

By Jan Lambourn our very own Fruit Expert.

Saturday February 13^th  2016 from 10-30am 

(coffee and apple cake)

As Friends of the Orchard, do join us to learn the correct method to prune top fruit (Apples and Pears)

We will be able to brush up on the basics and then move on to pruning our own Orchard trees some of which will need the use of our new ladder.

Do apply quickly as numbers are limited for the class. We will be giving priority to anyone who has worked in any capacity for the Orchard, and also taking into account those who have been before.

Applications to Helen by January 31^st please

We will be going on to The British Legion for lunch afterwards.

In addition, during the afternoon, 8 of us will be visiting an old walled garden in Oxted where we will be tackling restorative pruning on an old espalier apple tree.

Further details from Helen 01883 713160 or helenellson205@btinternet.com

SCHOOL POETRY COMPETITION 2015

For the first time this year the Limpsfield Community Orchard has sponsored a poetry competition at Limpsfield Infant School. Each child was asked to think about visiting the Orchard and to describe their thoughts and feelings about apples and pears and write about this in a poem. Writing the poems was done during school time and Jenny Baird (Headmistress) and Dr Julia Nash (Head of Science) gave tremendous support as did each of the other class teachers.

The results were excellent. Much was made of the crunchiness, the redness and the readiness to be eaten. We hope very much that the children will remember their early days at school and the happy visits they have made to the Orchard to see the trees at every season, the blossom and this year trying the apples too.

We, the Community Orchard, were delighted to be able to give each reception class a book about apples, and individual prizes were awarded to Yr 2s Emma Newton, Connie McMillan, Maisie Felstead and Yr 1s Katherine Dawson and Emma Kitchen

The prizes were presented during School Assembly by Helen Ellson (Chair LCO) and afterwards the prize winners walked up to the Orchard to hang copies of some of the poems in the trees so that visitors to the Orchard can see them.