Little Fields News and Updates - Land 4 Life Forum

Another 100 fruit trees planted

Max — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:09:26 +0000

In January, we planted a further 100 fruit trees at Little Fields, there are now over 1,000 different fruit trees planted at little fields, we are waiting on some clients to give us there tree choices and we hope to be able to plant these in March. Little Fields will look amazing this spring as 1,000 trees start to blossom.

Trees and hedging

Max — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:33:44 +0000

We are pleased to see so many trees bearing fruit, some trees are laden with fruit and for such young trees yields will be good. We will be removing failed hedging plants from around the site, so if you see hedging plants from your orchard vanish, please do not worry - they will be replaced with new plants later in the year.

No Mow May

Max — Sun, 26 May 2024 17:27:12 +0000

We are now reaching the end of "no mow May" starting in the first week of June we will be mowing the orchards of clients who have requested this service. Leaving the land un-mowed has encouraged wild flowers and provided much needed food for insects. We expect to see a lot more wild flowers next year and would like to thank orchard owners who have taken the time to plant wild flowers in their orchards.

Water For Orchard Owners

Max — Sun, 26 May 2024 17:20:06 +0000

As you are aware, last year we had a bore hole drilled to provide the site with free water. We also put in a system to allow orchard owners to be able to access water. The system we put in was gravity fed and has led to some issues for owners, we are therefore going to install a new watering system that will be pump driven. This will help us to be able to water trees much faster and with less work, it does however mean that clients will not be able to access water from the new pumped system. (As it requires a generator to be used to run the pumps).

We are therefore going to install 300 litre water containers at the end of each pathway that clients can use to obtain water for their orchards. These containers will be kept full using our new watering system. We will start installing these together with our new system in June and we expect the water containers to be installed and ready for use by middle of June.