Comments on: Identifying Scottish apples http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/2009/09/identifying-scottish-apples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=identifying-scottish-apples Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Hancox http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/2009/09/identifying-scottish-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-2307 John Hancox Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:19:29 +0000 http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/?p=97#comment-2307 Dear All I have submitted the following petition to the Scottish Parliament - it would be great to have support - so please come if you can. Details how to reserve a seat.... Below. If you'd like to send a paragraph of support - why you think school orchards or community orchards should be encouraged .... By Monday that would be great. I'll collate comments and make copies for committee members information.. Also if you'd like to forward this to your networks - and especially to any friendly journalists, to try and get some coverage ... The petition reads Petition by John Hancox calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to support and encourage local authorities, schools and community groups to plant fruit trees in schools and community settings so children, families and the wider community can learn how to grow harvest, and enjoy their own local seasonal fruit by providing funding to enable this to happen. We also ask the Scottish Government to support the development of the Commonwealth Orchard – as a Scotland wide legacy of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. While some of this could be in Glasgow’s East end, our vision with the Commonwealth Orchard is for that to be widely geographically spread, and developed in partnership with a range of local community groups. The petition has been formally lodged with the Scottish Parliament and will be considered by the Public Petitions Committee (PPC) at its meeting on Tuesday 13 December. The meeting will be held in Edinburgh, and is scheduled to start at 2.00pm. John Hancox, Mike Hyatt, Landscape Architect, and Jim Paterson, from Tarbert and Skipness Development Trust are witnesses to the committee You can view your petition’s webpage at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/44001.aspx . Here’s the details for those who want to reserve seats in the public gallery. The telephone number is (0131) 348 5200 and the email address is sp.bookings@scottish.parliament.uk – people using those details should just request a seat for the Public Petitions Committee on 13 December. Full pdfs of the petition are on Scottish Orchards and the Fruitful Schools websites Www.scottishorchards.com Www.fruitfulschools.com John Dear All

I have submitted the following petition to the Scottish Parliament – it would be great to have support – so please come if you can. Details how to reserve a seat…. Below.

If you’d like to send a paragraph of support – why you think school orchards or community orchards should be encouraged …. By Monday that would be great. I’ll collate comments and make copies for committee members information..

Also if you’d like to forward this to your networks – and especially to any friendly journalists, to try and get some coverage …

The petition reads

Petition by John Hancox calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to support and encourage local authorities, schools and community groups to plant fruit trees in schools and community settings so children, families and the wider community can learn how to grow harvest, and enjoy their own local seasonal fruit by providing funding to enable this to happen. We also ask the Scottish Government to support the development of the Commonwealth Orchard – as a Scotland wide legacy of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. While some of this could be in Glasgow’s East end, our vision with the Commonwealth Orchard is for that to be widely geographically spread, and developed in partnership with a range of local community groups.

The petition has been formally lodged with the Scottish Parliament and will be considered by the Public Petitions Committee (PPC) at its meeting on Tuesday 13 December. The meeting will be held in Edinburgh, and is scheduled to start at 2.00pm. John Hancox, Mike Hyatt, Landscape Architect, and Jim Paterson, from Tarbert and Skipness Development Trust are witnesses to the committee

You can view your petition’s webpage at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/44001.aspx .

Here’s the details for those who want to reserve seats in the public gallery. The telephone number is (0131) 348 5200 and the email address is sp.bookings@scottish.parliament.uk – people using those details should just request a seat for the Public Petitions Committee on 13 December.

Full pdfs of the petition are on Scottish Orchards and the Fruitful Schools websites

http://Www.scottishorchards.com

http://Www.fruitfulschools.com

John

]]> By: Crafty Green Poet http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/2009/09/identifying-scottish-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Crafty Green Poet Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:07:59 +0000 http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/?p=97#comment-11 these are very helpful photos, though whatever happened to the Golden Hornet? A taste guide might also be useful, do you know of one at all? I was at the Apple Day event at Bridgend, good to see so many apples and to watch the juicing.... these are very helpful photos, though whatever happened to the Golden Hornet? A taste guide might also be useful, do you know of one at all?

I was at the Apple Day event at Bridgend, good to see so many apples and to watch the juicing….

]]> By: Sue Hardy http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/2009/09/identifying-scottish-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Sue Hardy Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:27:57 +0000 http://www.abundanceedinburgh.com/?p=97#comment-10 Your pictures are very helpful-labels and records are often lost years after planting apple trees. Seeing the top and bottom of a fruit helps to identify even more closely. So often fruit trees are wrongly named from source and that can be perpetuated. Great to see all those old varieties -really encouraging. I'm in Dorset but good luck with project Thank you Your pictures are very helpful-labels and records are often lost years after planting apple trees.
Seeing the top and bottom of a fruit helps to identify even more closely. So often fruit trees are wrongly named from source and that can be perpetuated. Great to see all those old varieties -really encouraging.
I’m in Dorset but good luck with project

Thank you

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