10.50 for 11 am start, in cobhut or outside in the glade or circle if fine. Perhaps with the bees humming. Trees whispering. Birds singing. Stretch and shake out, check-in, twenty minutes’ sit and vision, lightly guided reflecting our combined thoughts. A slow walking meditation. 10’… then laughter, sing, stretch dance. 12.10 pm. And out into the sunshineContinue reading “Meditation – Saturday Mornings”
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Mailing list – Sign up
Meadow Orchard Project has a newsletter for keeping up to date with the amazing projects and activities that the volunteers are working on. To sign up, simply click the button below and enter your contact details, you’ll receive a regular email from us! Meadow Orchard Project will use the information you provide on the formContinue reading “Mailing list – Sign up”
Beekeeping
The Bees are back in townWe are proud to announce that we welcomed beekeeping back to Meadow Orchard last Spring! With the advent of the fruit tree blossom we were once again rewarded by the sight of emerging bees foraging in the warmer spring weather after they had been balled up inside their hives overContinue reading “Beekeeping”
Social Farms & Gardens
Meadow Orchard Project is a member of the Social Farms & Gardens network. Social Farms & Gardens is a UK wide charity supporting communities to farm, garden and grow together. Social Farms & Gardens – vision and mission Social Farms and Gardens, help people and communities reach their full potential through nature-based activities as aContinue reading “Social Farms & Gardens”
Capital Growth
#GoodtoGrow2024 Meadow Orchard Project is a member of the London Capital Growth network, we are also registered for the Good to Grow campaign 2024. Sustain, the organisation that runs Capital Growth has a network of all of the member gardens, the Good to Grow Network. Good to Grow (the new name for the Big Dig)Continue reading “Capital Growth”
Garden Plans
Current Plans We are currently redeveloping the food growing area of raised beds around the polytunnel. The site has looked a little like a construction site over the winter as our volunteers carried out this heavy work, preparing new scaffold board raised beds and installing hugelbeds. Former usageThe history of the site is quite variedContinue reading “Garden Plans”
Biochar @MOP
Biochar is a valuable soil additive, made from woody timber waste or other bio-waste material. Hardwood or softwood waste can be used, based on local availability. Often waste materials from crops can be used if those are readily available. At Meadow Orchard we use kiln-dried softwoods and hardwoods from a local woodworking shop. This isContinue reading “Biochar @MOP”
Get Composting
We use organic matter from a number of local waste streams to produce compost and mulch for our food growing ‘Kitchen Garden’ and Orchard. We have offered to compost the spent brewery grain, hops and yeast from the nearby Muswell Hillbillies brewery, waste micro greens substrate from Tasty Micros, arborists woodchip from Forbes Tree Surgeons,Continue reading “Get Composting”
Site Leaders Wanted
Our Site can only open, thanks to our dedicated team of hardworking Site Leaders. Present on Saturdays our Site Leaders open and secure the site, welcome visitors and help to co-ordinate some of the volunteering activities. Being a Site Leader requires a certain level of commitment, as far as being available to volunteer on aContinue reading “Site Leaders Wanted”
Keep In Touch
As a Volunteer run project, there are a lot of different projects and activities we are involved in and a lot of members and volunteers too, sometimes it can be difficult to work out how best to keep in touch! Saturday & Wednesday Volunteering The best way of finding out about the project is toContinue reading “Keep In Touch”
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