This Saturday morning we headed to Smallcombe Nuttery for the fourth weekend in a row to complete our job of scything the orchard.

We have been cutting down the grass there each week to make the nuttery more accessible to walk around and to appear more tidier and maintained. Also, this paves the way for the areas between the trees to become a wildflower meadow at some point in the future (a future task for us to get involved in!).

Today we had the very top of the orchard to cut and lots of areas around the sides. These sections were the hilliest so we had our work cut out for us (no pun intended!).

With a huge effort from everyone involved we managed to get it all cut down and raked away to the side. It looked absolutely fantastic and we were really pleased with our efforts. Keith brought some fresh pressed apple juice (made from some Beauty of Bath apples we picked at Bath Organic Group a few weeks ago).