What we're growing
Fifty Fruit-full schools are currently busy with projects to research their traditional varieties of local fruit. They’re digging around in the library, searching on the internet, talking to local experts and visiting orchards. Many will map local orchards and contribute the results to a national mapping exercise being co-ordinated by The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES).
By December 2010 they will have decided upon their local fruit heroes: the varieties of apple, pear, plum or cherry that each school wants to champion and will place orders for grafting stock with our nursery. We’ll be posting a full list here, together with a bit of background about each variety, so that everyone can see what's being grown across the country.
In the meantime, our expert nursery partner Frank Mathews Nursery is preparing starter packs of local variety two year old trees for each school to get them started. This will ensure that orchards in all our schools are bearing fruit in the project's final year.
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