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Start Your Journey2018 Monthly Schedule
Please be aware we sometimes hold our meetings in the orchard
Details will follow
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 4th - 7PM
Wassailing
Wassailing is an ancient Anglo-Saxon tradition which dictated that at the beginning of each year the lord of the manor would greet his assembled visitors with the toast Waes Hael, meaning "be well". The visitors would reply Drink Hael which meant "Drink Well" and so the New Year celecrations would start with a glass or two of a drink consisting of: mulled ale, cream, roasted apples, egg, honey and spices consumed in a noisy and lively way!
Prune cobnuts
if nessesary The Cobnut derives from the species Hazel (Genus Corylus Avellana)
Prune apples and pears
if nessesary
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 4th - 7PM
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 1st - 7PM
Prune cherries
If nessesary
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 5th - 7PM
Prune off mildewed twigs and cankers
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 3rd - 7PM
Check any stakes and ties
Bird survey
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 7th - 7PM
One world festival
Thin out apple clusters
Late June
Prune Figs
Bird survey
Harvest Elderflowers
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 5th - 7PM
Pull out ragwort
Harvest Tayberries
Orchard Meeting
Harvest Red, White and Blackcurrents
Harvest Jostaberry
Harvest Gooseberries
Harvest Raspberries
Harvest Cherries
Late July
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 2nd - 7PM
Cut grass
Prune cherries
If nessesary
Harvest Boysenberry
Harvest Opal plum (early)
Harvest Victoria plum (late)
Harvest Outllins Golden Gage
mid
Harvest Figs
Harvest Discovery apple
late
Harvest Cobnuts
from mid
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 6th - 7PM
Apple Day
Community Orchard
Harvest Blackberries
Harvest Clapps Favourite Pear
Harvest Damson (early)
Harvest Loganberry
Harvest Japanese wineberry
Harvest Buerre Hardy Pear (mid while hard)
Harvest Williams Bon Chretien Pear
Prune Plums
if nessesary
Harvest James Grieve (early-mid)
Harvest Worcester Pearmain (leave on tree as long as possible for best flavour)
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 4th - 7PM
Harvest Russet apple
Harvest Spartan apple (early mid)
Harvest Jonagold apple (mid)
Bramley cooking apple
Manage hedges
as nessesary
Harvest Ornamental Quince
Harvest Real Quince
Harvest Confrence pear
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 1st - 7PM
Harvest Confrence pear
Harvest Newton Wonder Cooking apple
Remove: Hawthorn, Bramble, Saplings from grassland
Orchard Meeting
New Mills Library Lecture Room Thurday 6th - 7PM
Remove: Hawthorn, Bramble, Saplings from grassland
~~Apple Day~~
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