Campaign to restore rare Conwy fruit orchard (via Icwales) via Green Drinks Rhondda Cynon Taff » Green Drinks Rhondda Cynon Taff
THEY’RE the long-forgotten native fruit trees that once kept medieval Wales fed long before the days of the supermarket Golden Delicious.
Nestling in the shadow of Conwy’s town walls, an unloved patch of scrubland contains the last remnants of a centuries-old orchard containing rare varieties of apples, pears and the unusual Denbigh plum.
But a campaign has now begun to restore the untended site, crammed with the finest Welsh fruits of yesteryear, to its former glory.
Mark Watson-Jones, organiser of the Conwy Community Orchard Group, said the trees still bear fruit every summer and autumn although many decades have passed since the trees received any tender loving care. Most of the fruit now goes to waste because the site is so overgrown.
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