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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Apple Day Monimail North Fife

Apple Day Monimail North Fife. They had a fantastic fun range of apple and autumnal related activities for you to get involved in, suitable for the whole family. They were excited to welcome two apple and orchard experts along to the event who gave talks and tours: Andrew Lear, AppleTreeMan Nurseries - Apple Identification, Propagation, Orchard Care and more Crispin Hayes, Eco-Consultant - Orchards in North Fife and Carse O’ Gowrie Other activities included… Fruit Picking, Apple Tasting, Apple Pressing, Cider Making, Preserving and Storing the harvest, Seed Saving, Orchard Tour, Apple Crafts and Games, They ran an apple themed café with soup, cakes and more. The apple juice was delicious.

Andrew Lear of AppleTreeMan Nurseries explaining apple and pear identification with scores of examples.

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Fabulous organically grown apples at Monimail.

Leeks & beetroot. The ancient walled garden, resurrected and worked by the small community that have lived there for the last 30 odd years provides superb vegetables mindfully cultivated in a sustainable way. If you're a veggie, then you'll be in heaven.

Meanwhile Monimail Tower gets a face lift.