Kent's Countryside Partnerships are exploring new ways and funding to help restore existing orchards around Kent and to encourage new ones. But firstly to gain the funding for this project we need your help to recognise where these valuable orchards are and the potential out there to create them for communities. Please follow the link below to fill out the orchard questionnaire. The more information we can gather, the better chance we have of creating and managing traditional orchards in your area.

http://www.kent.gov.uk/af3/an/default.aspx/RenderForm/?F.Name=gqTSxkgVuCT

Orchards for Everyone Project

We Need your help to.....

_{Build up local knowledge of existing traditional orchards and community fruit growing open spaces}

_{Locate potential new sites for fruit growing community open spaces (publically owned or privately owned  land where the landowner is supportive)}

_{Let us know the skills and knowledge you could share with the project.}

_{Let us know how you would like to be involved in the project}

_{Orchards are a special, secret landscape- a treasury of genetic diversity and a repository of culture. They are a wonderful way for communities to share the land and a positive gift for future generations.}

_{Once every village had its own orchards, but 60% of traditional ones have been lost since the 1950's. The Orchards for Everyone project will provide opportunities for you to explore, learn about and enjoy the rich wildlife, open space and heritage of our traditional orchards and readdress the decline.}

_{The project will focus on two main fruit belts from Faversham in the North Kent across Mid Kent to West Kent at Sevenoaks on the gGreensand Ridge with a focus on publically accessible sites (private or publically owned).}

Thankyou for your help, it is greatly appreciated- the information you provide will be used to develop an orchards funding bid to help us deliver the Orchards for Everyone project. Please could we have your replies by the 26th of February.

For more information please visit www.kentdowns.org.uk/orchards%20for%20everyone.htm or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it