LEEDS GETTING ITS 100TH FRUIT ORCHARD THIS WINTER

LEEDS GETTING ITS 100TH FRUIT ORCHARD THIS WINTER

Leeds is getting its 100th fruit orchard this winter, making it the city with the most orchards in the UK outside of London.

Social enterprise Fruit Works helps communities in Leeds plant and maintain fruit trees. Working with Leeds City Council and local community groups this winter they are expanding the city’s collection of fruit orchards with an additional seven, to reach the 100-mark.

The initiative is part of the council’s ambition, started in 2020, to plant 5.8million trees as a response to the climate emergency. An additional 1,250 hectares of woodland will be created over 25 years, meaning the amount of woodland in Leeds will double over this time.

Fruit orchards planted within communities work to make spaces greener, but also as a way for the community to grow their own fruit.

Fruit Works are assisting volunteers from local community groups to plant 15 trees for each new orchard in January and February.

The first to be planted is at Armley’s Hill Top Moor on Sunday 5 January.

The other six new orchards will be planted at St Peter’s in Bramley, Wortley Recreation Ground, Great Preston, Crossgates, Reginald Park in Chapeltown and at Leeds Industrial Museum.

 

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