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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​​Saturday 15th November: 2 pm until 4:30pm
Planting & Formative Pruning Workshop, Mill Field Orchard, Crosthwaite. Andy Brown's orchard is the back-up to the SLOG orchard and contains most of the SLOG apple varieties on MM111 rootstock and many of the Crook Foot pear varieties. The trees range from 1yr old up to 6yr old so are ideal for demonstrating and practicing formative pruning. There are a few more trees to plant so this is also an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate best practice in planting top fruit trees. Suitable footwear required for rough ground. Bring your own secateurs if you have them and the SLOG pruning kit will also be available.
Directions: See Google Map here, or W3W here. Park and meet at Crosthwaite Village Hall (LA8 8HT) at 2pm then we will walk down Oak Lane to the orchard. Free to SLOG members, no need for advance booking.
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Wednesday 26th November: Winter Meeting
Crook Memorial Hall 7.30pm. A talk and discussion on orchard pests & diseases, their recognition and mitigation thereof. Also we hope to be naming some more of the recently discovered local seedling apple varieties.
Directions: From Plumgarth 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.
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Public Apple Pressing dates:
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Apple Pressing Dates:
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Sunday 2nd November 10am – 3pm Members Apple Pressing at Sprint Mill, Burneside. Book time slots with Andy Gilchrist.
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:
Gilchrist Gold - Pear from Crook Foot Orchard
SLOG Annex Orchard - Mill Fields
SLOG Apple Pressing Events