Pitton Community Orchard & Nature Reserve Working Party 10.30 to 12.30 Saturday 21st June 2025 With the welcome news that the new Pitton Community Orchard & Nature Reserve is now open to the public we are seeking volunteers to join a working party on Saturday 21st June from 10.30 to 12.30. The focus of the… Continue reading Community Orchard & Nature Reserve Working Party
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Hay Making
If you have visited the Community Orchard & Nature Reserve recently you will have noticed how much the grass and thistles have grown. In order to start preparing the area for reseeding with wild flowers and less vigorous grasses we need to reduce the fertility in the soil. An effective way of doing this is… Continue reading Hay Making
Lyme Disease Awareness
One of the hazards of living in the countryside is the risk of being bitten by a tick some of which carry Lyme disease. Ticks are often, but not always, picked up by walking through long grass or sitting on the ground. The Lyme disease awareness charity Lyme Disease UK has useful guidance on how… Continue reading Lyme Disease Awareness
Community Orchard & Nature Reserve Update
Over the last few months a lot has been going on at the new Community Orchard and Nature Reserve. Currently we are waiting confirmation from Wiltshire Council that they will grant full public access in advance of the land transfer to Pitton and Farley Parish Council. Thanks to the support of the Coronation Living Heritage… Continue reading Community Orchard & Nature Reserve Update
Hedge Planting
At the start of March we took delivery of 420 hedge trees donated by the Woodland Trust as part of their trees for communities scheme. A number of trustees and volunteers gathered on 8th March, a chilly Saturday morning, to plant the hedging trees which covered approximately 100 metres around the edge of the new… Continue reading Hedge Planting
Another Coronation Living Heritage Orchard Grant Award
In December we announced that Pitton Nature Trust had been successful in obtaining a significant grant of £1,985 from the Coronation Living Heritage Orchard fund. This fund commemorates the coronation of King Charles III and is administered locally by Wiltshire Council. At the time of our initial application for funding in August 2024 we were… Continue reading Another Coronation Living Heritage Orchard Grant Award
Woodland Trust Community Tree Packs
We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in an application to the Woodland Trust’s community tree pack scheme. Our application was for 420 whips for year round colour, this will provide approximately 85 to 100 metres of double row hedging on the acre of land soon to be transferred to Pitton and… Continue reading Woodland Trust Community Tree Packs
Coronation Living Heritage Orchard Grant Award
Towards the end of August Pitton Nature Trust made an application to the Coronation Living Heritage Orchard Fund for a grant to plant five fruit trees in The Close. Also included in the grant application was funding for the proposed Community Orchard and Nature Reserve on Wiltshire Council land at Roundbarrow Farm which is due… Continue reading Coronation Living Heritage Orchard Grant Award
Community Orchard & Nature Reserve Update
At a meeting of Pitton and Farley Parish Council on 16th December the Council agreed the Heads Of Terms with Wiltshire Council in relation to the land transfer, on a 125 year lease, of an acre of land on Roundbarrow Farm. Pitton Nature Trust have been in discussion with the Parish Council with the aim… Continue reading Community Orchard & Nature Reserve Update