Community Orchard Planting Fruit Trees in Rose Hill

This will be cancelled if we are still in Tier 4

Planting Fruit Trees in Rose Hill, and litter pick

please wear a mask and bring your own gardening gloves Update.. GoodGym will be given 1 fruit Tree to plant and take ownership off in a pre-dug hole! This will also be filmed!!

We will also have a few more trees which we can plant and litter pick but currently capped at 6 for COVID reasons

I'll update nearer the day with how restrictions stand :) *note photo is from last year when COVID restrictions weren't in place Trev

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Rose Hill and Iffley Low Carbon group is planning to plant a community orchard and I wonder if members of the Good Gym or others would be interested in planting a tree when we plant our community orchard? We're planning this for Saturday 30th January from 11 am to 1 pm. We're inviting various community groups like the youth clubs, social club, Nepali Association, Silver Threads, football teams and churches to plant a tree each and then to water it in dry spells. We've had a grant to buy quite expensive, high quality trees and they will need care for the first three or four years.

We're planning to plant the trees between the school and Recreation Ground - mainly on that fenced off patch of grass behind the Children's Centre where the saplings will be relatively protected from vandalism and stray footballs.

It would be great if a small number of your group could be there. We'll get some of our younger volunteers to dig the holes in advance so it shouldn't damage your backs. It will be a socially distanced event - the trees will be at least 3 m apart - and we'll ask everyone to wear a mask.

We're also hoping to have a litter pick on the same day.