Blackberries Plums Newburgh North Fife

Yesterday in a Newburgh High Street garden it became obvious that this years Fruit sale will be of excellent quality and quantity if the profusion of this wee patch is anything to go by. A veritable temperate zone  garden of Eden.

 

This garden, part of the historic Newburgh Orchard is a little unkempt, what a wonderful outcome, brambles have grown up the plum trees displaying flowers earlier and now festooning fronds of delicious fruit. Such richness.

Boughs made pendulous with the weight of fruit making it easier to gather. A gatherers heaven.

 

Above is the garden bramble and below roadside, not so lush but just as tasty.

Newburgh Community Orchard North Fife

Entrance to the Orchard is located next to the car park adjacent to the school at the East end of Newburgh.

Newburgh Orchard Group (NOG)
its aims and history:

Until as late as 1960s, people living along the High Street sold fruit at their door.
Customers travelled annually at harvest time to buy a supply of plumbs, apples and pears for jam making and preserving for winter. This tradition was almost lost until NOG was founded in 2002.

The aim of NOG is to preserve, maintain and develop Newburgh's heritage as historic fruit growing area. This Community Orchard planted by NOG in 2004 is a resourse for school lessons. Used also for demonstrations of pruning, training and grafting fruit trees.
THe fruit in the Orchard can be picked by local people for their own use.

NOG activities include:

    Annual street fruit market.
    Jam making.
    Pruning/Grafting Workshops.
    Tree Survey.
    Heritage fruit and variety preservation.
    Apple pressing and juicing.

Newburgh continues to attract visitors to buy and enjoy the fruit and fruit produce.

Well worth a visit at harvest time.
Markets

 

 Variety, Discovery, one of my favourites. 

Plumbs, still green but a healthy crop.

Damsons

 

Looks like a brilliant year, 

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