Benefits of Orchards to the Environment

Benefits of Orchards to the Environment

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn

Everyone knows forests and trees are of vital importance to the world’s ecosystem, especially in their role of removing carbon dioxide from the air, and producing oxygen for animals and humans to breathe.

Orchards have played an important role in communities for many centuries. Providing a place where people and the rest of nature can successfully work together to create abundant harvests.

In recent years, community orchards have had a renaissance as people rediscover the benefits and pleasures of growing fresh fruit.

By working with nature, and not against her, we can create healthy, diverse and resilient systems. This can be done while reducing our impact on climate change and environmental degradation.

Orchards provide vital green spaces where people are encouraged to interact with nature either through becoming custodians of the trees or by simply being around them and enjoying their shade, beauty and fruit.

It also offer a space to learn from each other and nature, and a place in which training of traditional skills can occur, such as pruning and grafting.

Orchards invite nature into the urban environment and provide a pleasant places in which it can flourish; in our schools, parks, and improve human wellbeing.

In some communities, orchards open the door for green jobs and other small business opportunities. This not only helps the community in an economic sense, it also helps the environment by promoting sustainable living.

Growing your own fruit helps you become more connected to the growing process and where your food is coming from.

Arguably, community orchards have never been more important. They provide a setting where the rich and poor, young and old, can roll up their sleeves and work together or put their hair down and enjoy the harvest.

So if you want cities that are sustainable, rich in biodiversity, socially unified and scrumptious, let’s get planting!

http://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/guides-and-advice/benefits-orchards-and-fruit-growing

Share This Post

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn