{"id":7798,"date":"2016-06-22T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2016-06-22T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:18:06","slug":"new-community-orchard-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/new-community-orchard-funded\/","title":{"rendered":"New community orchard funded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7799\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7799\" class=\"wp-image-7799 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ppl-logo-297x300.png\" alt=\"People's Postcode Lottery\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are delighted that funding has been awarded to help us create a new community orchard on our land at the Sylva Wood Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Wittenhams Community Orchard<\/strong> will be planted this coming Winter at the heart of the village of Long Wittenham, near to the church and primary school. It will serve as a new entrance to our land for the local community, with free access provided all year round.<\/p>\n<p>Three separate trusts have provided funding that will support the creation of the orchard\u00a0\u2014 including the trees, all-ability path and signage \u2014 while we hope to attract a number of &#8216;cropsharers&#8217; to invest to help ongoing maintenance and in return receive an equal share in the products of the orchard. Fifty apple trees will be planted, alongside a few pear, cherry, walnut, medlar, quince and filberts.<\/p>\n<p>A major grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Postcode Local Trust<\/a> was received, funded entirely by players of People\u2019s Postcode Lottery. Our project received over \u00a314,000\u00a0from the Trust to establish the orchard.\u00a0 Players of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcodelottery.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery<\/a> can find out more how, by playing the lottery, they can support more charities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted that funding has been awarded to help us create a new community orchard on our land at the Sylva Wood Centre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ppl-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}