GoodGym Ealing: Canal-side gardening in public orchards - May 2025
Encourage biodiversity and local community engagement along the Grand Union Canal
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GoodGym Ealing: Canal-side gardening in public orchards - May 2025
Encourage biodiversity and local community engagement along the Grand Union Canal
Getting there
For this session we're going to meet at the task, so you'll need to make your own way there. We encourage you to walk, run, or cycle to do so!
About this session
Come and help Hanwell and Norwood Green Orchard Trail (HANGOT), a great organisation that 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.
โ What?
We may be doing one or more of:
- ๐ Wheelbarrowing
- โ๏ธ Cutting back invasive plants
- ๐ฟ Watering
- ๐ Mulching
- Any other general maintenance
๐ Where and When? ๐
10:30am: Meet at HANGOT's base, entering from the Grand Union Canal towpath (see listing photo)
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- The easiest route there is from The Fox Inn, W7 2PJ
- Walk towards the canal and turn left onto the towpath
- Walk around 200m and Bernd's Shed is on your left
- We'll then move as a group along the canal to one of HANGOT's orchards
๐ What to Bring
- ๐งค Gardening gloves, if you have them
This task supports
HANGOT plant publicly accessible community orchards to encourage foraging and biodiversity
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.
See moreWhat to look out for
Make sure you've read our general guidelines for safety for taking part in a GoodGym session.
This is a GoodGym community mission. When we're doing a community mission we make our own way to the task, so you can choose to walk, run, or cycle. Thinking of cycling - check out our FAQs
This session is organised by your Taskforce, a group of experienced GoodGym members in your area. They are not responsible for your safety. You should feel confident to participate in the session as it is described and you do so at your own risk.
Location
Access from the canal towpath
Comments and questions
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