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Exciting Volunteer Projects: Get Involved & Support Us

Welcome to the MOP Projects page! Here, you’ll find a collection of exciting and creative projects made by our talented volunteers at Meadow Orchard Project (MOP). These projects range from birdboxes and batboxes to biochar retorts, portable pole lathes, and fun activities like the Pinecar Derby Racers. If you’ve enjoyed building any of these projects, we encourage you to make a donation to support the ongoing efforts of MOP. Your contributions help us continue to create meaningful work for our community and the environment.

Feel free to download our plans, get crafting, and share your finished projects with us at meadoworchardproject@gmail.com. Whether you’re creating a simple birdbox or learning new woodworking skills with our green woodworking projects, there’s something for everyone. By contributing to MOP, you’re supporting not only our educational programmes but also our commitment to sustainability and conservation.

Garden Planning Workshop

Drop in Garden Planning Workshop – Saturday 19th October – 12.00-4.00pm The Proposal In February, following an in-person garden planning meeting, we posted our plans to redevelop the grow space around the Polytunnel. There were a number of reasons for this project, initially to help cultivate the soil, improve drainage and water retention, break upContinue reading “Garden Planning Workshop”

Sowing & Growing

What are we growingOur growing season is really gaining momentum now, from garlic to broad beans, tomatoes to romanesco, all manner of seeds are being sown ready to plant out in our revitalised polytunnel and brand new raised beds. We’ve cultivated the beds in the poly and installed a new row of pallet collar (reclaimedContinue reading “Sowing & Growing”

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”

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”