The orchard is open to the public for special events such as Apple Day in October and Wassail in January. We also take part in community events and festivals in the Bristol area. Details of events are announced here as dates are set, so check back regularly to keep up to date with our activities. |
Public Events
Book an hour with The Apple Tree Lady
Book an hour with The Apple Tree Lady Shannon Smith - our Orchard Learning co-ordinator - is offering one-hour fruit tree consultations in gardens and alloments within a 2km-ish radius of Horfield Organic Community Orchard. The fee is £20, which includes a £5 donation to HOCO. Available by advance booking only. Shannon will share her expertise, and give practical and down-to-earth advice about fruit trees of all ages and conditions. An hour with the
Apple Tree Lady is highly recommended by Alison, a recent Orchard
Learning participant, “I’ve learned more about apples in 30 minutes
than I have in the whole of my life!”
Please book using this link: https://forms.gle/FXEA31GezBy6H9fq6 or contact us with any questions. |
Apple Day Market - Sunday 17 October - 2-4pm
Apple Day Market on Sunday 17 October. Fundraiser event for Horfield Organic Community Orchard. To avoid disappointment please order fruit trees by 6pm Saturday 16th October.
Our 'advance order, collect & pay' service is very basic!
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Ask the Apple Tree Lady to identify mystery apples
The Apple Tree Lady is offering to identify mystery apples to raise funds for the orchard This service is available for people living in, and around, Bristol (e.g. post codes beginning BS1 - BS20). The cost is a £5 donation for each variety (up to 4). Please complete this form and Shannon Smith (a.k.a. the Apple Tree Lady) will be in touch soon: |
Goodbye 2020, hello 2021
Love and Joy come to you… We wish you a Happy & Healthy New Year Sadly, we cannot host our traditional community Wassail in January. Our trees aren’t going anywhere! They, and we, will soon spring back to life. We hope to welcome our friends, neighbours, and supporters into the orchard later in 2021. Meanwhile, here’s a reminder of the HOCO Fruit Tree sale, October 2020. Many thanks to all who supported this, or booked an hour with the Apple Tree Lady, and helped us to raise just over £600 for the orchard.  |
Apple Day Market - Sunday 18 October 2-4pm
Apple Day Market stall on Sunday 18 October. To keep everyone safe we ask our supporters to please order in advance. We are limiting the numbers of people in the orchard, and setting up a one-way route.
Our 'advance order, collect & pay' service is very basic! 
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Ask the Apple Tree Lady to identify mystery apples
Sadly, due to Covid-19 uncertainty, our traditional community Apple Day celebration is cancelled for 2020.  The Apple Tree Lady is offering to identify mystery apples to raise funds for the orchard This service is available for people living in, and around, Bristol (e.g. post codes beginning BS1 - BS20). The cost is a £5 donation for each variety (up to 4). Please complete this form and Shannon Smith (a.k.a. the Apple Tree Lady) will be in touch soon: |
Wassail - Saturday 18 January, 2-4pm
Every twig, Apples big.... All are welcome to Wassail  Saturday 18 January 2020, 2 -
4pm Toast the orchard for a fruitful harvest Bring ribbons, clouties &
shining things to dress the trees Make merry with Pigsty Morris Bristol Folk Singers raise
their voices Homemade cakes and mulled
Orchard juice for sale Apple trees for sale
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Apple Day - Sunday 20 October 2019
All welcome to celebrate all things Apple  Sunday 20 October, 2-4pm Horfield Organic Community Orchard Growing fruit trees & resisting extinction since 1998
Donations of surplus apples and pears welcome for juicing. |
Midsummer Orchard Open Day - Saturday 22 June
 Saturday 22 June - 1-5pm Nature-friendly Fruit Growing Home Orchard Plot - be inspired to grow your own fruit Refreshments and home made cake for sale Tunes from the Brigstowe Village Band Plants and produce for sale Ask us your fruit growing questions Part of Get
Growing Garden Trail - June 2019 https://www.bristolfoodnetwork.org/get-growing-garden-trail-2019/ |
Wassail - 19 January 2019
All are welcome to Wassail Horfield Organic Community Orchard Saturday 19 January 2019, 2 - 4pm
 Toast the orchard for a fruitful harvest Bring ribbons, clouties & shining things to dress the trees Make merry with Pigsty Morris Listen up to Bristol Folk Singers Homemade cakes and mulled Orchard juice for sale Find out about the new crop of Orchard Learning courses for 2019 |
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