National Tree Week at The Orchard Tea Room and Farm Shop Wisbech

It's National Tree Week in the UK until Sunday 7th December, a week when the Tree Council encourages people to improve their neighbourhoods by planting trees.

National Tree Week started 40 years ago in 1975 to make Britain more tree-conscious, encourage tree planting and raise awareness of the importance of the proper care and maintenance of trees. Harold Wilson, Prime Minister at the time, planted a Holm Oak at Chequers and Margaret Thatcher, then Leader of the Opposition planted a Lime tree on land adjacent to Grendon St, NW6. Every British Prime Minister since then has responded to the invitation to plant a tree at Chequers during National Tree Week, with the exception, thus far, of the current incumbent, David Cameron.

Trees are obviously very important to us here at The Orchard, we grow them for their fruit, apples, pears and plums. They look fantastic from our tea room windows and they provide a  wonderful amenity to those of our customers who choose to take a walk in the orchard. Our dog owning customers in particular love the opportunity to take their canine friends for a stroll through the orchard.

Our orchard trees not only produce fantastically tasty fruit they also provide food and habitat to thousands of insects, mammals and birds, bryphophytes (mosses & liverworts), lichens, invertebrates and fungi many of which have high conservation priorities.

So this National Tree Week we'd like to invite you all, particularly local Fenland residents to come and take a walk in our orchard during opening times, 10am-4pm. We're just 300 yds from the A47, down Redmoor Lane, not far from Tesco really:

The Orchard Tea Room & Farm Shop

Redmoor Lane

Wisbech

PE14 0RN

If you'd like to learn how to care for fruit trees we're offering Apple Tree Pruning Courses in January and February next year, bookings are now being taken. Find out more by clicking Pruning Apple Trees Course

You can also sponsor one of our Bramley Apple Trees for 2015, we have two sponsorship options available, one with orchard visits and fruit and one for those who are unable to visit us. Find out more about our Bramley Apple Tree Sponsorship by clicking Sponsor a Bramley Apple Tree.