After many hurdles securing local land on which to plant a community orchard, but with many members keen to bring fruit growing and an added sense of community to the area, March Community Orchard Project did some outside the box thinking and came up with the FRONT GARDEN FRUIT project.
This is kind of like a community orchard, but spread across the town, in people’s own front gardens.
We provide a free tree, with stakes & guard, plant it for you and perform a tree health check. You provide a bit of front garden area on which to plant it. In future years, when (hopefully) you have more fruit than you know what to do with, you can opt in to be provided with a crate to leave near the footpath for passers-by.
You can also opt-in to be added to our Google pin map of trees dotted around the town so that it feels more like a cohesive community orchard.
Down the line we would love to organise community events like juice pressing, pie making and other fruit & garden related gatherings open to our FGF beneficiaries, local gardeners and the wider community. And we’d love to hear your ideas too!
If you’d like to be a part of the March Community Orchard Group we meet the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30 in the Wordsworth Room of March Library.
Or apply for a FREE tree for your front garden HERE: