Bay Horse Community Growing Project

Bay Horse Community Growing Project permaculture project: organic underplanted orchard / forest garden Wildflowers and undisturbed hedgerows remain in the margins and along the boundaries.

A page for people interested in growing things collectively and learning how to turn unmanaged unproductive plots of land into something special. Since 2013 here at the Bay Horse and with the help of Green Grants we have created an under planted orchard by planting Lancashire heritage apple trees and lots of other fruits, and developing vegetable growing plots in between. We have a small group of

regular growers and with a lot of graft we now also have beehives, ponds, seating, water storage, compost facilities, apple juicing kit, tool and potting sheds and greenhouses. We welcome visitors and are happy to share our experience. We encourage others to team up and do similar elsewhere.

Did somebody say just spring?!
03/03/2024

Did somebody say just spring?!

Winter sun on th’plot..
10/01/2024

Winter sun on th’plot..

I love working with other people doing plot jobs during winter. There’s no feeling quite like when seeing the results of...
20/11/2023

I love working with other people doing plot jobs during winter. There’s no feeling quite like when seeing the results of combined labour. Here getting on top of bramble, covering plots for winter and extending compost facilities

The big bottle sterilise has commenced and the kit is ready.. Today is Apple Juicing Day! c.40 litres this year 🙂
23/09/2023

The big bottle sterilise has commenced and the kit is ready.. Today is Apple Juicing Day!

c.40 litres this year 🙂

14/01/2023
Bev’s been at work around the entrance..
14/01/2023

Bev’s been at work around the entrance..

Please note if you’re thinking of visiting our growing plot that we now have a gate which is locked when no one’s on sit...
07/03/2022

Please note if you’re thinking of visiting our growing plot that we now have a gate which is locked when no one’s on site. This is unfortunately due to some anti social behaviour and theft that has been experienced recently. We’re still as always happy to accommodate any visitors- we don’t have fixed open hours but there is more often than not someone around in case you want to just chance it / see if we’re open. Otherwise one of us can meet you there by advance prior arrangement 😉

Our bee keepers have been busy collecting rent from our tenants (and in return we will feed them over winter 😉..
20/12/2021

Our bee keepers have been busy collecting rent from our tenants (and in return we will feed them over winter 😉..

A few recent piccies from the plot..
27/09/2021

A few recent piccies from the plot..

27/09/2021

It’s harvest time again 🙂 Not the best most productive year this time for some of the growing plots, but that has in part been because a particular elder tree has been doing so well, leaving the veg growing plots under and behind it in shade. Apples mostly not so good either this year. Not sure why. Frost might have caught some out. I’ll post a few recent piccies of the site and a few from last Sunday’s group fruit picking day. Though I’m not a cider drinker I read recently that cider has as many anti oxidants as red wine - so I’ve decided to give a fruit cider recipe a go this time, and currently have a micro brewery in my walk in closet..

June. Blooming lovely 🙂 ..
04/06/2021

June. Blooming lovely 🙂 ..

ls good to spend at least some of Earth Day working earth. And the weather is gorgeous 🌝This is the last part of our com...
22/04/2021

ls good to spend at least some of Earth Day working earth. And the weather is gorgeous 🌝
This is the last part of our community plot to be given some attention. We’ve done lots of tip runs removing tipped discarded items, and have used coppiced willow to form protective boundaries to hopefully prevent any more of same. We’ve been given some hedgerow saplings; hawthorn and hazel which will be laid to supplement previously planted dog rose and eventually replace the dead hedge car park boundary over time. Wild and bird cherry saplings are the main new features of our new mini shady woodland but we’ve still found room for a pond and some growing plots..
Hope you’re having a nice day too x 🙂

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We are a small open growing group collectively turning a once uncared for plot of land into an underplanted orchard. It’s been 5 years since we started. Thanks go to Punch Taverns and Bay Horse tenants Karl and Fiona who continue to share their land with us, and with the help of a ‘green grant’ and lots of other contributions/contributors we are now pretty much fully established. A small group of regular growers and grafters have done most of the work in maintaining and further developing our site in 2017. Indeed, the site flourishes only because workloads are shared. This is to the benefit of anyone who wanders down to see what’s going on. It is good for the soul to spend some quiet time in the plot’s elevated setting, with views of West Pennine Moors to the east, and Lancashire plains and Sefton coast to the west. Just lovely. Anyhoo.. we look forward to 2018.. we welcome visitors and new members; whether on a once-only, or annual basis - whatever suits best. Just get in touch if you want to get involved. And Cheers!