- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Free training on healthy and sustainable food for public sector caterers
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- 2,012 new food growing spaces for London by 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- Pledge to make our future an organic future
- To increase the enjoyment, production and consumption of bread made with natural ingredients
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The purpose of the report is to help current and future orchard projects, supporting practitioners and local communities to enhance, protect and celebrate orchards. It gives practical advice on setting up and running orchard projects; looks at creative ways to engage local communities and the media; and explores how to make orchards more financially viable through fundraising and selling orchard products. It draws upon many successful examples of Leader+ and similar projects and the advice and experience from orchard groups around the UK and elsewhere. This guide aims to inspire orchard enthusiasts everywhere, to take practical action to conserve our orchard heritage for the enjoyment of generations to come.
"The finished (report) is absolutely fantastic, a great balance of enough information to make it really useful but not so much as to make it cumbersome or hard to navigate. We've had really good feedback from people who have seen it so far". Dawn Turner Programme Manager at Herefordshire Leader+
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Traditional orchards are under threat
How can orchard projects help reverse this trend?
Background to the Orchard Co-operation Project
Chapter 2: Finding out more about your orchard
i) Orchard history, heritage and culture
The importance of history and heritage
Orchard heritage and how to research it
Orchards and archaeology
ii) Orchards, wildlife and crop diversity
Wildlife
Crop diversity
iii) The landscape
The significance of orchards
Protecting orchards from development
iv) Orchard mapping
Why is mapping important?
Useful mapping advice
v) The financial value of orchard products
Chapter 3: Exploiting the many benefits of orchards
i) Educational activities
Running courses to promote orchard skills
Taking training a stage further
Working with schools
Integrating orchards into the school curriculum
Orchards and healthy eating in schools
Raising awareness through arts and theatre
ii) Community well-being
Community orchards
Health and the wider community
Community food projects
Amenity and public access
iii) Restoring and safeguarding biodiversity and landscape
Promoting genetic diversity
Official designations that aid conservation
Orchard management guidance
iv) Creating a thriving local economy
Adding value
Buying fruit processing equipment
Foods and branding linked to 'landscape character'
‘Protected Name’ schemes
Exploring different outlets for produce
More ways to gain support for local orchard produce
More than fruit and nuts
Attracting orchard tourists
Hiring out orchard space to generate income
‘Sponsor a Tree’ schemes and crop sharing
What type of business?
Chapter 4: Attracting funding and other support
i) Issues to consider and sources of funding
Funds from the public
European, national, regional and local support
Charitable trusts and foundations
The National Lottery
Support from local businesses
Measuring success
ii) The importance of good communications
Events and festivals
Publicity
Engaging the community
Interpretation for visitors
Generating media support
Starting a campaign
Chapter 5: Looking to the Future…
Appendix 1: Business plans and funding applications
Appendix 2: Traditional Orchards in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan
Appendix 3: Contacts and useful information
