Science day
On Saturday 26th January between 10am and 3pm, the HICOP stall was at Science Saturday at the Junior School. The theme was wildlife and traditionally-managed orchards. We had our information display unit and a variety of orchard-related activities for all ages, including quizzes, apple tasting and printing with apples.
Pruning Workshop
Time: Sunday, 10 February, 10am – 2pm Location: Ideal Unit, Impington Village College, only £10 Would you like to learn from an expert how to prune your fruit tree?
February – Volunteer help needed
Now that the license for the orchard has been signed with the Parish Council we are able to start work and your help is needed.
Orchard licence signed
We are very pleased to be able to announce that a detailed licence agreement for the Community Orchard was signed between Histon and Impington Parish Council and HICOP on November 30th!
We recently posted up details here on the site of opportunities to work on the first phase of establishing the Community Orchard. Unfortunately work on the project has had to be suspended as the Environment Committee of the Parish Council has, at an extraordinarily late stage, raised concerns about the original proposal endorsed by Histon […]
Juicing Day 2012
First of all we wish to say a big Thank You to Hilary Duncan who sells apple juice at the Friday Farmers Market in the village for the very generous donation of the Apple Juicer and Macerator to HICOP. Also to Peter Pluck a local carpenter, who kindly made two mahogany discs for the press […]
Boundary marking
On October 20th, a small group of us headed down to the orchard site to mark out the boundary for the forthcoming hedging and fencing work scheduled to take place in November.
