SLOG Events
SLOG holds practical and interesting events for our members throughout the year including grafting and budding workshops (where you can create your own trees, all materials provided), pruning workshops for both standard and espallier trees, orchard visits, seasonal meetings with guest speakers and members apple pressing days where you can bring your own apples to be pressed (with some volume limits). We also have a stand that tours some of the local fairs and events. You always learn something at a SLOG event!
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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Wednesday 27th November:
Winter meeting, at Crook Memorial Hall
7.30pm
We'll start with a debate on the effects of climate change on local orchards with particular reference to apple varieties best suited to cope with future conditions. This will be followed with a Committee meeting (all invited) looking forward to SLOG activities in 2025. There will be tea, coffee & apple juice provided, cakes etc welcome.
Directions: From Plumgarths roundabout at north end of Kendal take B5284 direction Bowness. Proceed through Crook village, past the Sun Inn, then up the hill and the Hall & carpark is on your left at the top of the hill. Satnav LA8 8LG. W3W position here
Saturday 25th January:
SLOG Pruning Workshop, Grange Community Orchard 1.30-4.00pm
This workshop covers maintenance winter pruning, though all other types of pruning will be discussed. Led & demonstrated by Dick Palmer & Andy Gilchrist, then you can put theory into practice on the trees at Grange before going home to prune your own trees. Bring your own secateurs if possible but SLOG secateurs and loppers will be available for anybody who does not have their own. No need to book places.
Directions: Near Grange-over-Sands railway station, just south of the B5277/B5271 roundabout, opposite the Ornamental Gardens. Car parking on opposite side of road or in nearby carparks. W3W position here
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Gilchrist Gold - Pear from Crook Foot Orchard
Orchard Events
The orchard planting is coming along. A plan of the orchard and its varieties is now available.
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More details are on the SLOG Orchard page.
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If you would like to join the orchard team, please email Andy Andy Gilchrist or call 01539 727772.
We see this as an opportunity to:
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maintain some of the rarer Furness, Cumberland and Westmorland varieties, from which scion wood and/or buds can be provided for propagation
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grow on grafts from unidentified trees to obtain fruit for identification
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evaluate scab-resistant varieties under Cumbrian conditions
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evaluate new rootstocks such as M116
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evaluate the suitability of new varieties for Cumbrian conditions
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etc etc (and it doesn't have to be just apples!)
North Cumbria Orchard Group Events
NCOG events are open to SLOG Members as a reciprocal arrangement.
A link to NCOG events can be found by clicking here:
SLOG Apple Tasting
SLOG Apple Pressing
Mill Fields Orchard - Crosthwaite