Meadow Orchard Project

The community garden has a large polytunnel where we propogate seedlings and grow salad crops.

We have perennial herb beds where we are cultivating a large variety of medicinal and culinary herbs: mint varieties, lemon balm, borage, sorrel, marjoram, echinacea, comfrey, St.John’s wort, valerian, elecampane, betony, chammomile, pulsatilla, rosemary, sage, fever-few, artichoke and lots more…

There are several vegetable beds for annual crops.

The fruit orchard has been planted around the perimeter of the site: apple and pear varieties, medlar, cherry, plum, almond, mulberry, hickory, hazel, walnut, wild service tree, currants and goose-berries, goji berries, sea buckthorn, sechwan pepper, june berry and lots more…