Advice and Blog
Browse our posts to find advice on choosing, planting and caring for fruit trees, or search for specific keywords.
Our 2024 - 2025 Workshops and Events Programme
Come along to our workshops and events to learn about the seasonal cycles of fruit growing, tree maintenance, and what to do with your harvests.
Common pruning mistakes
We’ve compiled some handy tips of common mistakes people make when pruning fruit trees. These things are best avoided, but you’ll inevitably make a few mistakes along the way, and that’s just part of the process!
How and where to cut when pruning
Here we’ve boiled down the different types of basic pruning cuts you’ll be making: why we do them, and how and where to make your cuts.
The Great Northern Fruit Moot – do it yourself!
A great get together of fruit-loving folk in Todmorden: read about our time at the Great Northern Fruit Moot and how you could organise one yourself!
What we got up to during planting season
It’s been a jam-packed winter season of planting fruit trees in Leeds and Bradford. Check out the many projects we were part of over the winter.
How to look after your fruit trees
Planting fruit trees is the first big step of your fruit growing journey, but what should you do after that?
Rootstocks explained
All of our fruit trees are grafted, meaning they are propagated by joining a cutting from one tree to the root system of another tree.
How to plant a fruit tree
We’ve created this short video in partnership with Bradford Council to demonstrate how you can plant and care for a fruit tree in your own garden.
Pollination groups explained
When planting fruit trees, whether they’re in your garden, a school or a community orchard, you will need to consider pollination groups to ensure your trees will bear fruit.