Other people's orchards


I started putting these brief appreciations of other people's orchards with pictures up in June 2007, started with Burrow Hill and Sheppey's, just added Hartley Wintney community orchard, more will follow.

On our travels we always seek out orchards. Sadly, many have become unprofitable due to cheap imports and unjust trade (scroll down page to 'not on the Label' review) by supermarkets, and been grubbed out. Others that used to be open to the public are no longer open. Happily, the west country still has a few cider orchards you can be visit for tasting and sales. Here are a few pictures which I hope to add to as time goes by. If you have any digital pictures of attractive orchards, or have an orchard but no web site of your own, I will post up to 6 pictures and some text on a page in this section of my site, for free as a service to the apple. Contact me in an email (no attachments or images in the first instance) on hayes373(at)btinternet(dot)com and if I like your pictures I will put them on the site together with your text and links about the orchard and an acknowledgement. This includes English commercial orchards who would like a little free advert. Of course a return link would be appreciated but is not compulsory.

PS, I just tried using Google Earth to plot routes betweeen orchards, it's amazing! If you find Sheppy's near Bradford on Tone, you can see the orchards and individual trees from above, quite amazing. If you put Burrow Hill and Bradford on Tone in the appropriate boxes, you get a road map and travel directions between the two orchards.  Click below to virtually visit these orchards.


Burrow Hill
Sheppeys
Hartley Wintney community orchard
West Dean College fruit garden, Sussex


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