Friern Barnet Community Orchard Workshops
About this Event
Help Create the Friern Barnet Community Orchard 🌳
Working in partnership with the community library's garden group and St John's Community Garden N11, join our free community orchard workshop series and help plant and care for a vibrant new orchard in the greenspace next to Friern Barnet Community Library— creating a place where people, wildlife and nature can blossom.
About the project
Through a series of friendly, practical workshops you’ll learn how to design, plant, prune and care for a community orchard.
The programme is:
- Free, family friendly and open to everyone
- Join the whole programme or book individual sessions
- Suitable for complete beginners
- Practical, friendly and community-led
- Hosted at Friern Barnet Community Library
- With lunch or refreshments provided
If events are sold out please contact organiser to be added to waitlist.
If you have any accessibility requirements please contact organiser in confidence.
Everyone welcome but under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
Programme
Taste the Orchard
Date: Monday 2 November 2026
Time: 3pm-6pm
Venue: Friern Barnet Community Libary
- Taste different fruits and locally produced apple juice
- Learn about the community orchard and get involved
- Help plant 2 mini meadows
Co-design the Orchard
Date: Monday 16 November 2026
Time: 3pm-6pm
Venue: Friern Barnet Community Library
- Learn about the principles of orchard design, planting for resilience, biodiversity and people
- Choose the fruit and nut trees and fruit bushes for the site
Tree Planting Day
Date: Monday 15 February 2027
Time: 10.30am–3.30pm
Venue: Friern Barnet Community Library
- Help plant the orchard!
- All tools provided but please wear clothes you don't mind getting mucky and stout shoes.
- Vegan Community Lunch - please get in touch with any dietary requirements
Practical orchard care and management
Date: Monday 15 March 2027
Time: 10.30am–2.30pm
Venue: Friary Park Orchard What3Words:///softly.bounty.offers
- Meet at the orchard
- Learn about orchard care and management
- How to prune young fruit trees
- Assessing tree health
- All tools provided
- Bring a pack lunch
Citizen Science & Celebration
Date: Monday 19 April 2027
Time: 3pm-6pm
Venue: Friern Barnet Community Library
- How to monitor the orchard's soil and wildlife biodiversity
- Contribute to scientific research
- All equipment and training provided
- Community celebration
Come along, learn new skills, connect with other members of the community and help create a flourishing community orchard for Friern Barnet🍎💚🍎
For more information please get in touch with Daniella [email protected]
Supported by the Mayor of London’s Green Roots Fund.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00
