Congratulations is due to a local resident, Anna Townend, who has been featured in today's Mercury for working long and hard to bring the 'dwarf orchard' (the walled section on the north edge of Greenwich Park at the foot of Maze Hill) back into productive use. Click on the image for a closer look.
The Greenwich Phantom blog last month posted an interesting little history of this enigmatic corner of the park, and suggests that plans for its future include miniature fruit trees and beekeeping.
I do hope this is true. It fits in perfectly with transition principles, building the community's resilience by increasing the amount of our food needs that we get from our own area, our own resources. Anyone for community-grown, Maze Hill-branded jams and honey?
If anyone knows more about these plans, and any opportunities for local people to get involved and help the project on its way, do get in touch.
One more word of congratulations to another project on Westcombe's fringes: The East Greenwich Pleasaunce Cafe in Chevening Road has won the News Shopper's Green Guardian award for green building of the year, featuring solar under-floor heating and solar water heating. Must get down there and see it...
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