We’ll meet 9.30 am at Meigle Beach with cars and bags to pick up seaweed. Bring a few gardening tools, such as gloves, secateurs for freeing any trapped branches/cutting away long grass, mallets for stake consolidation and some cable ties. Whatever you have kicking around at home, don’t go out buying anything as we can […]
We have changed the time to 10 am on Sunday for our Mulching event, meet on Toward view by the park! The seaweed is ready :). Hopefully a few of you can come and help and we’ll have it done in no time! […]
Thank you to our wonderful volunteers for your support, help, presence, baking, ideas, muscles & energy! The committee are tired, delighted and satisfied after a day of planting. We were so effective that we had to slow down to allow some trees to be left for the afternoon team to plant. Lunch was fantastic with […]
From getting the grant awarded to planting day has been quite a quick turnaround, but we’ve made it through, and are all ready for action tomorrow. Our volunteers have had a plan emailed out to them, we’re delighted that so many people are going to join us. In the lead-up, and with liaison from various […]
Putting seaweed around the fruit trees is the perfect way to suppress competing plants and provide nutrients to the new trees. We want to get them off to a good start! Wondering why? […]
It’s high tide! Perfect day to collect seaweed down at Meigle Beach for mulching around the fruit trees. We’ll take Nick’s trailer and fill it to the brim. You can either help with that or even better bring your containers to fill as well. We’ve got a lot of trees to Mulch! […]
The day is almost here! We have 80 heritage fruit trees arriving on Saturday morning. We are running two planting days, 1 for the general public, scouts and youth group – then another with the school. On the public planting day, we will plant around 50 trees with help from John from Scottish Fruit Trees, […]
Skelmorlie Library: 14th February 2024, 12 noon to 1pm
Skelmorlie Tennis Club: 12th February 2024, 7pm to 8pm […]
Read More… from Information meetings – Community Fruit Trees
We have some very exciting news to share… we’ve just won a grant from North Ayrshire Council to plant fruit trees in Skelmorlie! Woohoo! We were delighted with the results of our survey which showed overwhelming positivity for the project, so to go on and win the grant is very special. A lot of you […]
Skelmorlie Environment Trust has recently applied the North Ayrshire 2030 Woodland Grant Fund to plant fruit trees in the village. We’re expecting word on the application by 8th December 2023. The back story Skelmorlie Environment Trust was tagged in a post on a Skelmorlie Village Facebook page about a grant available to buy trees in […]
