Thanks to a really positive partnership between Ealing Transition Initiative, Ealing Parks Department Rangers, the Ealing & Brentford Consolidated Charities and some enthusiastic digging and planting by parents and children, we have now planted 20 fruit trees in the new Lammas Community Orchard.

On February 26th, Dads and Mums dug the holes through the hard core and re-filled with topsoil and manure and on Saturday 5th the children came to plant, name and adopt their trees. We had a really fun day with the children really enjoying getting to grips with soil and worms and carefully making friends with their trees.

We hope Lammas Community Orchard will become a special place to visit and enjoy where you can watch the trees grow and flourish with the children who care for them.

MORE! The Park Rangers have agreed we can have use for now of the disused flower bed in the Lammas Tennis Enclosure close to the Community Orchard to use as a Community Edible Garden.

Children who came to the tree planting have made a start by planting seeds to grow at home ready to bring back to plant in the Edible Garden. We hope volunteers will prepare the plot ready for planting and then we hope children will plant and help look after the garden by growing good things to eat such as sugar peas, strawberries, cherry tomatoes and much more.

We hope it will show how easy and tasty it is to grow our own food and be yet another opportunity to work together to create resources for our local community.

See our blog here.

To get involved in Lammas Community Orchard, the Edible Garden and Ealing Transition Initiative go to www.ealingtransition.org.uk

For a slideshow of pictures from the day, click here.