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News
Fruity Grants Announced
Grants of between £100 & £500 are available to landowners, land managers, communities or other organisations for designing and creating new orchards, managing traditional or other existing orchards, enhancing orchard biodiversity, and developing orchards as a learning ground. Read more.
Over 500 trees planted through our 2012/2013 Scheme!
FEL Announces Appointment of SKS Scotland for Orchard Business Research
FEL is delighted to announce the appointment of SKS Scotland, to explore the development of a business incubator model for FEL that will support the establishment of independent new and diversified orchard and orchard-related commercial ventures across Forth Valley and beyond. Read more...>.
To All Bakers and Cooks...
The Forth Valley Orchard Group, in conjunction with Forth Environment Link, is creating a file of recipes using orchard fruits – apples, pears, plums, damsons, cherries, pears, and nuts – to be published in 2013 as part of our celebration of orchards in Forth Valley. Read more
Rooting for Success!
A smallholder from Falkirk is looking to contact anyone who might be interested in being part of a buying co-operative for rootstocks...Read more
Scrumpers 'Pear-up' to make the local food link
The Forth Valley Scrumpers' Network came together for the first time to pick fruit, from a pear orchard near Falkirk...Read more.
View Photos of CSGN Orchard Grant Award Winners Online
The photos of the grant winners of the CSGN Orchard Grant Scheme 2011/2012 are now available for viewing online in the 'Photos' section at the foot of this page.
Events
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FVO Orchard Biodiversity Workshop
June 15, 2013 from 11am to 3pm – Reading Rooms, Blairlogie
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FVO Workshop - Summer Prunning Workshop
August 3, 2013 from 11am to 3pm – Dollar Park
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Orchard Tips!
Posted by Amparo Echenique on April 18, 2013 at 12:19 0 Comments 0 Likes
ContinueJames Grieve and Oslin at mouse-ear bud - Start your spray against scab and canker and remove dead parts and fruit! twitter.com/plantsandapple…
— PwP & Appletreeman (@plantsandapples) April 13, 2013…
Grafting Workshop
Posted by Amparo Echenique on April 10, 2013 at 14:24 0 Comments 0 Likes
Andrew Lear (Right) and some of the participants with their grafted trees.
Pip, Pip Hooray! for Allan's Primary School Planting
Posted by Forth Valleys Orchards on April 10, 2013 at 10:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
We were asked by Leigh Biagi, co-ordinator of the excellent 'On the Verge' initiative (that encourages wildflower planting to attract bees), to attend a tree planting session at the …
Orchard Mapping in Progress
Posted by Forth Valleys Orchards on January 8, 2013 at 11:22 0 Comments 0 Likes
A Happy New Year to Everyone!
I hope you'll come and join us at the OpenStreetMap Stirling Social next Tuesday, 15 January 2013, 7.00 pm at the Twenty Rocks (ex-Sporter's Bar) in King Street, Stirling.
We will be asking the experts for their advice on putting together, not just a map of the orchards of the area, but local food too.
FEL's aim is to produce a map of orchards and local food that will be accessible to all, and ultimately, interacive so that anyone can add…
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Pip, Pip Hooray! for Allan's Primary School Planting
Posted on April 10, 2013 at 10:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
We were asked by Leigh Biagi, co-ordinator of the excellent 'On the Verge' initiative (that encourages wildflower planting to attract bees), to attend a tree planting session at the …
Orchard Mapping in Progress
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 11:22 0 Comments 0 Likes
A Happy New Year to Everyone!
I hope you'll come and join us at the OpenStreetMap Stirling Social next Tuesday, 15 January 2013, 7.00 pm at the Twenty Rocks (ex-Sporter's Bar) in King Street, Stirling.
We will be asking the experts for their advice on putting together, not just a map of the orchards of the area, but local food too.
FEL's aim is to produce a map of orchards and local food that will be accessible to all, and ultimately, interacive so that anyone can add…
Continue Make Orchards Your Business
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 16:07 0 Comments 0 Likes
We've just launched an invitation for potential applicants to join an ILM Level 2 Award in Exploring Business Enterprise.
It's being run in conjunction with SRUC Elmwood Campus in Fife, is open to anyone in the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk or Stirling Local Authority areas who is interested in looking at opportunities for setting up a new business, or diversifying an existing business relating to orchards and orchard fruit.
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Continue Forth Valley Orchards' Mapping Progress
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 14:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
Work has started to map Forth Valley's Orchards and fruit trees.
The project has been stalled up until now until suitable mapping software was available that would allow the presentation of Data Protected data (for in-house use only), and data available for the public.
Now, using MapBox based on the…
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