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Fruit Works tree planting in Armley: New trees for Leeds
National World - LocalTV
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03/02/2025
Did you know that Leeds has the most fruit orchards in the UK outside of London? We met Fruit Works at a tree-planting session on Hill Top Moor in Armley to discover how they’re supporting communities to plant and maintain fruit trees.
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Hi, my name's Ginny and I'm one of the four worker members of Fruitworks Co-operative.
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We're a small social enterprise based in Leeds that grows fruit trees and plants fruit trees
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and helps more people grow their own fruit.
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We're here as part of the Coronation Living Heritage Scheme.
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So it's a scheme to plant more small woodlands and more orchards across the country.
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So we were lucky to get some funding to plant seven community orchards across Leeds.
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So we're working with seven different community groups this year to establish those orchards.
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So today we're at Armley Hill Top Moor planting one of those seven orchards and the people
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have come out in full force to plant that orchard today and the weather is amazing.
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Leeds is set to receive 100 fruit orchards which is the first city outside London to
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do so.
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This is one of seven sites of planting to be done in the city.
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This winter our ambition is to plant five million trees over 25 years and fruit trees
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I think bring a particular interest to local communities as well as planting trees and
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looking after them but you're actually having trees to grow fruit as well and so there's
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actually an added benefit to have fruit orchards or fruit trees.
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The first few years we want to focus on channeling the trees energy into growth so we want them
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to grow strong roots and big strong branches and then after year four or five they should
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hopefully be established enough to start producing good crops and we've got a good mixture of
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apples, pears, plums, cherries here.
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The community group that is responsible for caring for this land is going to take on the
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ongoing maintenance of the orchard so that's going to involve weeding, mulching, watering,
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pruning and then eventually harvesting the fruit.
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