Orchard Network

The Northern Fruit Group is made up of retired horticulturalists with a wealth of knowledge and experience. They are carrying out surveys in parts of the northern counties such as Whitby, and keep up to date with developments in fruit breeding and growing. The fruit group has three learning facilities to continue their hands on work and research: Harewood House demonstration fruit garden and apple and pear tree collection, Huddersfield Allotment to used to demonstrate of traditional allotment fruit growing, and Hexthorpe Allotments in Doncaster which is being developed into a nursery for Yorkshrie varieties, and demonstration garden for domestic fruit growing. Simon Clark of the NFG has created the Apple Key as an aid to identification of varieties. This can be downloaded from a page of the National Orchard Forum web-site. The Group offers a leaflet "suggested Fruit Cultivars for the North".

simonclark4994@gmail.com

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Yorkshire Fruit into Yorkshire Schools - run by the Northern Fruit Group, the scheme helps schools to source and plant Yorkshire varieties of fruit trees. Contact the scheme co-ordinator Clifford Cain:

07771 716145

Clifford@yfitys.org.uk

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Abundance - Urban Fruit Harvest. Contact Anne Marie Culhane:

Sheffield

0784 907 3394

mail@amculhane.co.uk

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