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Community Orchard for Prestwood
Prestwood Nature are celebrating following the news they have received a £2,280 grant from the Lottery distributor Awards for All.
The Prestwood based nature charity will be using the grant to plant a community orchard of local apples, cherries, pears and plums adjacent to allotments in Greenlands Lane, Prestwood. It will be known as Kiln Common Orchard, after the old name for the area by Greenlands Lane, which once had a brickworks as well as orchards. The initial planting will take place on Saturday, November 1, from 10am.
Local varieties of fruit have been collected by Prestwood resident George Lewis and cultivated by Buckinghamshire-based Bernwode Plants.
Prestwood Nature chairman, John Obee, said "This award will help us to preserve rare varieties of fruit trees for future generations and will involve the local community in creating, maintaining & celebrating part of their heritage."
Prestwood has a long history as a centre for fruit production, but nearly all the local orchards have been lost since the 1950s. At the inception of Prestwood Nature in 2003 a community orchard was one of the top priorities in a poll of members. Obtaining a suitable piece of land has been a long journey, but Great Missenden Parish Council, who rent the site, and the Stoke Mandeville and Other Parishes charity, who own it, have now agreed that the Greenlands site could be used.
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