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Collingham Community Orchard
A Community Orchard can be a place where local and other varieties of fruit are grown by and for local people. Providing fruit to share and places to enjoy, they show how well we can live with nature as a friend and collaborator. An orchard could include the following objectives:
2020 Green Vision held a public meeting on 24 March 2009, to gauge support in the village for this proposal. There is no doubt that this is seen as a very worthwhile idea, and a group is being set up to investigate. Collingham Parish Council, at a meeting held on the 13 May 2010, unanimously agreed to a proposal by 2020 Green Vision that the piece of land between Swinderby Road, Blackbourn Close and Crew Road should be managed as a Community Orchard on behalf of the village. On 20 November 2011, 51 people helped to plant the first fruit trees and some bulbs on the site.
If you want to know more about Community Orchards, of which there are over 300 in England including one in Southwell, please visit the Common Ground website at www.commonground.org.uk. We would very much wish to involve the local residents of Collingham in the planning and execution of this orchard. For further info please contact Derek Middlemiss on 892821 or email: drderek.middlemiss@virgin.net.
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