Jesmond Community Orchard welcomed visitors to its annual Apple Day at St Andrew’s Cemetery earlier this month, celebrating local fruit growing while highlighting the challenges facing traditional orchards. The orchard, a staple of South Jesmond since 2009, hosted an afternoon on Saturday, October 10th of
The importance of apples was highlighted at Jesmond’s recent Apple Day, reports Anna Nix
The Jesmond Community Festival 2024 is already lined up with plenty of exciting events and activities, Roseanna Leconte reports
Heavy rain and storm warnings shifted Jesmond’s annual Apple Day back a day, but they didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of its organisers and visitors. Apple Day is a nationally celebrated event each October and Jesmond holds its event in the Community Orchard near Forsyth Road
Jesmond Community Festival brought a day of Italian poetry to the orchard on Tankerville Terrace, courtesy of Antonella Rea who teaches Italian language classes in Newcastle and Northumberland and has been organising cultural events like this since September 2017
Jesmond URC celebrate the completion of Church and community garden regeneration project 10 years in the making, reports Craig Dingwall
Marlene Loesken visits the Jesmond orchard to learn more about practical beekeeping
Amy Bolton captures the first signs of spring in her shots of some early-season planting
Local artist Julia Barton designs new entrance for Jesmond orchard. View Katrina Stevenson’s slideshow and report
SCAN helps out every Wednesday at Jesmond Community Orchard, reports Linda Guma.