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 […]
We’ve cancelled the Winter Solstice Event due to forecasted rains and high winds. In its place, we will meet at the Eggie Bar at 7 pm for a few festive drinks and catch up! Welcome to all. […]
Details to be confirmed but likely we will be including discussions to complete the Locality Plan. Meeting at the Eglinton bar in Skelmorlie. […]
More details to be confirmed nearer the time. Hopefully, we’ll be discussing the fruit tree planting if our grant application is successful! […]
We are planning to head down to the Crescent on Sunday morning to prepare for our Winter Solstice Event. The plan is to With any spare man hours, there’s of course lots of satisfying chopping and clearing still to be done! If anyone has any tools which would be good for stump removal please bring […]
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 […]
