The Kindling Trust's mission to make Greater Manchester a more sustainable food growing region is liiterally bearing fruit - or it will be soon.
On Sunday March 9th, around 20 people took part in our latest apple tree grafting course. Armed with Stanley knives, vaseline and the judicious use of sticky tape, they learned how to cut and combine a shoot of one tree to the rootstock of another and binding them together until they grow into each other. As well as teaching people the rewarding new skill, by the end of the day no fewer than 200 new trees had been created.
Course organiser Kirstin says: "It went really, everyone really enjoyed it as they always do, and at the end of the day several of them arranged to buy rootstock of their own to plant, which is great."
For more information about apple grafting visit Kindling's orchard management gallery and if you would like to take part in future grafting days please contact us.