[Drop In] Canal-side gardening in public orchards

Come and help Hanwell and Norwood Green Orchard Trail (HANGOT), a great organisation who plant fruit trees in public green spaces to encourage biodiversity and foraging for food. We help them to plant and maintain their orchards along the Grand Union Canal.

❓ What?

We may be doing one or more of:

• 🛒 Wheelbarrowing

• ✂️ Cutting back invasive plants

• 🚿 Watering

• 🍂 Mulching

• Any other general maintenance

🕑 When and 📍 Where?

11:00am: Meet at HANGOT's base, entering from the Grand Union Canal towpath (see listing photo)

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As a Drop In session, you can arrive at any time during the task and leave whenever you need to go. We may move along the canal, so if you arrive after 11am, make sure you have the contact details of others attending.

🎒 What to Bring?:

• 🧤 Gardening gloves, if you have them

About Hanwell and Norwood Green Orchard Trail

Hanwell and Norwood Green Orchard Trail is a local community project to plant and care for a trail of publicly accessible community orchards in the Grand Union Canal corridor in Hanwell and surroundings. Publicly accessible community orchards benefit humans, flora and fauna alike, and fruit is free to pick and enjoy.

We planted over 150 fruit trees, hazels and rowans since January 2015 in over 12 locations between the Brentford and Southall borders, building nature and wildlife habitat improvements as well as a strong community of local volunteers with a shared sense of responsibility. We also planted hundreds of fruiting hedge plants.

We work in close cooperation with Ealing Council park rangers, the Canal & River Trust, local schools and other community groups.