🌳 Community Orchard SummitHosted by The Orchard Project
A gathering of community orchardists, growers & changemakers, coming together to learn, share and reimagine thriving community spaces.
📍 Calthorpe Community Garden, London📅 Saturday 18th October, 10:30am – 1:30pm
Are you involved in a community growing project—or dreaming of joining one? This summit is for you!
Join orchardists, growers, changemakers, and community gardeners for a day of inspiration, learning, and connection. Whether you’re tending an orchard, growing food, or regenerating your local patch, you’ll leave with new skills, fresh ideas, and meaningful connections.
Join
✨ What’s happening:
- 🎤 Inspiring Talks – Hear from Beth Cullen a CICO graduate on the story of Horsenden Farm Community Garden & Orchard, and Ewa Krupa horticulturalist at RHS Wisely about their evolving approach to orchard management.
- 🔧 Practical Workshops – Get hands-on with tool care (bring your tools!) in a session led by TOP facilitator and CICO graduate Gavin Clarke, and learn about creating wildlife ponds in orchards with Froglife.
- 🌿 Gardeners’ World–style Orchard Question Time – Put your questions to our expert panel of growers, community leaders, TOP staff member and council representative.
- 🍎 Apple Tasting – Sample a variety of heritage apples from Brogdale and discover the magic of apple diversity.
- 🥧 Apple-Inspired Bake Share – Bring along your best apple bake (cake, pie, crumble… surprise us!) and join in a delicious community harvest table.
- 🍲 Warming Lunch & Refreshments – Nourishing food to keep the ideas flowing.
- 🌱 Networking & Cross-Pollination – Connect with fellow growers, biodiversity builders, and ecological citizens.
🎤 Plus: be the first to hear about the launch of our new TOP Strategy with TOP CEO Kath Rosen!
Can you imagine a future where everyone in our towns and cities is within walking distance of a thriving community orchard?
That’s the kind of future we want to see.
Together, we are restoring our world—one orchard, garden, and community at a time.
🎟 Tickets: £5 (to secure your place—spaces are limited!)
Apply for Community Project Funding
As part of the Community Orchard Summit, proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to support one grassroots community project.
If you’d like your project to be considered, please send your answers to the following questions to elizabeth@theorchardproject.org.uk.
- What’s your group or organisation called?
- What would you put the funding towards?
- Why is this important for your community?
A shortlist of proposals will be chosen by our team to be displayed at the event, and then the winner will be selected by a community vote.
