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The Secret Garden

Fruit & Nut Village

Planting Orchards & Growing Forest Gardens

Our communities grow, and are surrounded by abundant, perennial food

Who We Are

Fruit & Nut Village CIO is a charity based in Birmingham, growing orchards and perennial food spaces, and working with local communities to develop a range of edible landscapes. We manage around 70-80 growing spaces in total, across Balsall Heath, Druids Heath and Stirchley, but are also currently expanding into Lozells and Billesley.

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Fruit & Nut Bulletin: May 2025

Please join us to #GrowTheVillage in #Stirchley, #BalsallHeath, #DruidsHeath, #Lozells, #Billesley, and beyond next month!

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We were at @saheli_hub #BalsallHeath yesterday planting #FruitBushes. #GrowTheVillage

Yesterday evening we were out in #BalsallHeath planting up a container #ForestGarden with @bahutrust #HazratSultanBahuTrust. The containers look beautiful. Thank you to @chamberlain.highbury.trust for the donation of trees! @climatekam #TheNationalLotteryCommunityFund #Growthevillage

Working into the dusk at #ThePeoplesPlot #ForestGarden this evening. Join us again next Wednesday evening. #DadsLaneAllotments @incrediblesurplus #TheNationalLotteryCommunityFund

We're entering the Spring at #ReasideForestGarden. All of the trees are in the ground from our winter planting work. It looks great... do come and have a look. #FruitAndNutVillage #BalsallHeath #yesterday
#TheNationalLotteryCommunityFund

We've started our #PrunusPruning at #BroadMeadowOrchard today. There will be plenty of other opportunities to join us in #Stirchley to prune over the next few months. #TheNationalLotteryCommunityFund

A fantastic turnout of people at #BillesleyCommon #Billesley today. Eight #FruitTrees planted... caged... watered... mulched... #GrowTheVillage
#FriendsofBillesleyCommon
#GreencoatNursery
#BillesleyGreens
#BillesleyArk

The bulletin for April! Please join us to #growthevillage in #Stirchley, #BalsallHeath, #DruidsHeath, #Lozells, #Billesley, and beyond!

@incrediblesurplus
@mecctrust
@saheli_hub

Join us at #ThePeoplesPlot
@incrediblesurplus

#FruitTreePlanting #FruitTreeGrafting #BalsallHeath

Fruit & Nut Team Building Workshop! Today, we met at @oldprintworksbrum for two indoor workshops, discussing how we can best achieve our 2040 Plan goals and reaching current and new #volunteers, before @danburwould showed us around some of our #BalsallHeath growing spaces, namely #ReasideForestGarden and its unique foraging hedge alongside The River Rea. #GrowTheVillage with us at our sessions!

It's only March... and we've had to start watering at #KingdomForestGarden! We've been busy with the weeding and shearing as well... of course! #Stirchley #TheNationalLotteryCommunityFund

#PebbleMillPlayingFields #ForestGarden #SellyParkSouth this afternoon. Six years since we began... this site has developed hugely. So many different species of #EdiblePerennials.

Four new #FruitTrees for #StMaryAndStAmbrose #BalsallHeath yesterday. #GrowTheVillage

#SouthernDriveForestGarden #Monyhull. It looked great today in the sun. It'll all soon be back in leaf.

#FruitTree #Pruning workshop with #StMarysConvent #Lozells yesterday. Fantastic little garden.
#growthevillage

We've been potting up #FruitTrees this afternoon with @ourscenecic and #AllenscroftSchool at #DawberryCornerGarden. Five container trees for the space. #GrowTheVillage

We've planted an orchard with @friends_of_swanshurst_park in #SwanshurstPark today. Three pear trees, a damson and a gage... on the old 'pitch and putt" site. #GrowTheVillage #Billesley

New fruit trees planted in #TheSecretGarden #BalsallHeath today. #GrowTheVillage

We've been #FruitTreeGrafting today at #ChristChurch #SellyPark. 40 more fruit trees for the local area... #TheNationalLotteryCommunityFund

We had a lovely day at #CastleValeAllotments yesterday, adding 15 more fruit trees! @cetbrum

#SoftFruitPruning, planting up the new #ForestGarden area and the promised pasties were provided... at #ThePeoplesPlot @incrediblesurplus

An end of #WinterPruning workshop in #DaisyFarmPark yesterday. #HightersHeath #FruitAndNutVillage #DruidsHeath #Growthevillage

Yesterday saw a new #ForestGarden for #BalsallHeath @balsallheathcf . We prepared a patch of ground by stripping some turf and creating a herb bank. We planted #ExcaliburPlum, #saltbush, #jostaberries, #BabingtonsLeek, #hollyhock... and more will be added soon!
#Growthevillage

Fruit tree planting with #PercyShurmerSchool earlier today. Pruning work also carried out, at #ReasideOrchard #BalsallHeath #Growthevillage

Join us on Thursday 20th March for some #fruittreegrafting

#SoftFruitPruning workshop #SellyParkSouth. Friday 21st March #PebbleMillPlayingFields #ForestGarden

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