Time to plant some more trees!
Is your area in Skerries interested in starting a mini orchard? Please send us an email at [email protected] - we have the go-ahead in principle to plant trees in three more areas.
See more on our website!
We now have 8 mini orchards with over 100 apple, plum, pear, damson and hazel trees in Skerries!
See our website for more pictures and details.
https://sustainableskerries.com/2023/03/13/2023-planting-season/
Keep Sat 4 March and 11 March free as we'll be planting more trees in seven mini orchards on those days! More details soon.
The 2023 Planting Season will see more than 20 more trees - at least, we hope - throughout Skerries!
Get in touch if you are in Skerries and have an idea where they should go.
We're talking to Fingal County Council to get their go-ahead.
We're planting more trees!
Go to sustainableskerries.com/orchards for details and to 🤜 sign up 🤛for the planting of
🌳 Mourne View Open Orchard starting at Wildcat Lane (Fri 25 March, from 4 pm)
🌳 Ballast Pit Triangle Open Orchard (Sat 26 March, from 2 pm, near the bus stop)
See more here: sustainableskerries.com/orchards
Over 50 people, adults and children, planted 20 trees in our first open orchard, right in the middle of Skerries, where local residents in Kelly's Bay and Mourne View can see and enjoy. We are now gearing up for the second open orchard, which with a bit of luck we can get going before the end of the current planting season, and are preparing for more in the autumn.
The planting of our first Open Orchard as reported in the Fingal Independent:
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/kellys-bay-residents-hard-work-bears-fruit-as-community-orchard-opens-41347986.html
Quick update... the Skerries Open Orchards Projects team will meet on the location of the proposed first open orchard, the Kelly's Bay Open Orchard (see the flyer below for where exactly this is hopefully going to be!) THIS FRIDAY (10 Dec 2021) from 3 pm to plan where which trees might go.
And then we'll be meeting with those who'd like to be guardians on the same plot THIS SATURDAY (11 Dec 2021) from 4 pm.
See you there?!
It's beginning to happen! Our very first Open Orchard, in Kelly's Bay, has the go-ahead from the county council.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (4-6 December 2021), we are putting these leaflets through the doors of local residents. We have more information on sustainableskerries.com/orchards, and you can sign up there as well to become a guardian either of this, the Kelly's Bay, orchard or of one of our future orchards.
Hello there, dear Skerries Open Orchards people!
Just a quick note that:
🌳 Our main channel of communication is the WhatsApp grop, especially for those more actively involved in the planning - please send a message to Sabine via ChangeX if you're no in the group yet.
🌳 Big events, such as planting days, will be announced on this page. Keep your eyes peeled!
Sabine
