Herefordshire Orchards Community Evaluation project
The project’s work at Saltbox orchard, Garnons. The apples have been collected and cider making is underway. Meanwhile, Herefordshire Orchards Community Evaluation project has been busy amassing and processing information and experiences
The evaluation is both deep and wide-ranging, seeking to derive a triple bottom line value for each orchard through assessment of environmental, social and economic impacts.
This has included consideration of aspects as diverse as the orchard’s contribution to climate change, biodiversity, the local economy and people’s lives.
One of the orchards in our study is Saltbox orchard, the last bush orchard, resplendent with its veteran oak, on the river side of the A438 before Bridge Sollers when travelling towards
The project set out to really understand the importance of orchards to Herefordshire.
We are concentrating on an evaluation of the impact of just six of more than three thousand orchards in the County, but these orchards were selected to represent the different types and characteristics of orchard that can be found here.
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