Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#kestrels🦉 #birds🪶 #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards🍒 #Food #Orchards🌳 #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter🦠 medium.com/grrlscientis...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#kestrels🦉 #birds🪶 #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards🍒 #Food #Orchards🌳 #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter🦠 medium.com/grrlscientis...
Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food
Encouraging tiny falcons to nest in fruit orchards reduces fruit loss to birds and safeguards against contamination by microbial pathogens
medium.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#kestrels🦉 #birds🪶 #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards🍒 #Food #Orchards🌳 #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter🦠 medium.com/grrlscientis...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#kestrels🦉 #birds🪶 #BirdDeterrent #FruitOrchards🍒 #Food #Orchards🌳 #FoodBorneIllness #FoodPoisoning #Campylobacter🦠 medium.com/grrlscientis...
Our #SevernTreescapes team had a great day out looking at how to plan & plant an orchard thx to funding from @ptes-org.bsky.social & Better Future Renewables 🙏🌳🍎🍐🍒
Severn Treescapes is a partnership with @gloswildlife.bsky.social & @herefordshirewt.bsky.social
Severn Treescapes is a partnership with @gloswildlife.bsky.social & @herefordshirewt.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Our #SevernTreescapes team had a great day out looking at how to plan & plant an orchard thx to funding from @ptes-org.bsky.social & Better Future Renewables 🙏🌳🍎🍐🍒
Severn Treescapes is a partnership with @gloswildlife.bsky.social & @herefordshirewt.bsky.social
Severn Treescapes is a partnership with @gloswildlife.bsky.social & @herefordshirewt.bsky.social
Curious, do you give your home trees name? I do! 🌳
Pik - Leonard Messel Magnolia
Wik - Royal Star Magnolia
Yik - Grindstone Ginkgo
Qik - Zhuzhou Loropetalum
“The Orchards” - Three columnar apple trees
Gemini - Two Emerald Green Arborvitae
“Little House Under Rose Bush Trail” - walkway at backyard
Pik - Leonard Messel Magnolia
Wik - Royal Star Magnolia
Yik - Grindstone Ginkgo
Qik - Zhuzhou Loropetalum
“The Orchards” - Three columnar apple trees
Gemini - Two Emerald Green Arborvitae
“Little House Under Rose Bush Trail” - walkway at backyard
January 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Curious, do you give your home trees name? I do! 🌳
Pik - Leonard Messel Magnolia
Wik - Royal Star Magnolia
Yik - Grindstone Ginkgo
Qik - Zhuzhou Loropetalum
“The Orchards” - Three columnar apple trees
Gemini - Two Emerald Green Arborvitae
“Little House Under Rose Bush Trail” - walkway at backyard
Pik - Leonard Messel Magnolia
Wik - Royal Star Magnolia
Yik - Grindstone Ginkgo
Qik - Zhuzhou Loropetalum
“The Orchards” - Three columnar apple trees
Gemini - Two Emerald Green Arborvitae
“Little House Under Rose Bush Trail” - walkway at backyard
🌱 Mere Brow Farm is a 13.5-acre permaculture project building diverse agroecological landscapes with communities. Forest gardens, orchards & woodland boost biodiversity, food & learning—while welcoming volunteers 🌳🍎
💡 agroecologymap.org/l/358
#Permaculture #Agroecology #CommunityFarming
💡 agroecologymap.org/l/358
#Permaculture #Agroecology #CommunityFarming
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
🌱 Mere Brow Farm is a 13.5-acre permaculture project building diverse agroecological landscapes with communities. Forest gardens, orchards & woodland boost biodiversity, food & learning—while welcoming volunteers 🌳🍎
💡 agroecologymap.org/l/358
#Permaculture #Agroecology #CommunityFarming
💡 agroecologymap.org/l/358
#Permaculture #Agroecology #CommunityFarming
#plants #history #botany #art 🌳
Juglans regia - Common Walnut
Making its way by trade along the Silk Road the Walnut was introduced across Europe by the Romans. Cultivated in orchards also grows in the wild (if you know what to look for).
Woodland Trust:
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
Juglans regia - Common Walnut
Making its way by trade along the Silk Road the Walnut was introduced across Europe by the Romans. Cultivated in orchards also grows in the wild (if you know what to look for).
Woodland Trust:
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
#plants #history #botany #art 🌳
Juglans regia - Common Walnut
Making its way by trade along the Silk Road the Walnut was introduced across Europe by the Romans. Cultivated in orchards also grows in the wild (if you know what to look for).
Woodland Trust:
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
Juglans regia - Common Walnut
Making its way by trade along the Silk Road the Walnut was introduced across Europe by the Romans. Cultivated in orchards also grows in the wild (if you know what to look for).
Woodland Trust:
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
Up the workers !
But also if you didn’t to own what modern commercial fruit orchards look like it’s these absolutely bonkers espalier systems
The boutique orchards with nice tree 🌳 looking trees is just for show mostly
But also if you didn’t to own what modern commercial fruit orchards look like it’s these absolutely bonkers espalier systems
The boutique orchards with nice tree 🌳 looking trees is just for show mostly
"Lourdes" sent us this photo of farm workers pruning gala apple trees in WA State. "We earn 50 cents a tree and if we move fast we can make about 200 trees in a day." #WeFeedYou
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Up the workers !
But also if you didn’t to own what modern commercial fruit orchards look like it’s these absolutely bonkers espalier systems
The boutique orchards with nice tree 🌳 looking trees is just for show mostly
But also if you didn’t to own what modern commercial fruit orchards look like it’s these absolutely bonkers espalier systems
The boutique orchards with nice tree 🌳 looking trees is just for show mostly
Thank you to the CAMRA team for walking the off-road section of the C2C bus route today & witnessing the destruction it threatens to cause. Orchards like Coton’s are irreplaceable—no #orchards, no #cider; no #pollinators, no food 🍎 #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌
November 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Thank you to the CAMRA team for walking the off-road section of the C2C bus route today & witnessing the destruction it threatens to cause. Orchards like Coton’s are irreplaceable—no #orchards, no #cider; no #pollinators, no food 🍎 #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌
Nice photo of the wide Alazani Valley, the river glinting in the sun. The valley floor is dense with grapevines and orchards, largely held by small farmers. 🌳🌱🚜🍇
Kakheti just can't help that it looks like a romantic oil painting at all times
September 12, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Nice photo of the wide Alazani Valley, the river glinting in the sun. The valley floor is dense with grapevines and orchards, largely held by small farmers. 🌳🌱🚜🍇
🌳 Recently, we finalised the Coronation Living Heritage Fund programme, which has seen £26,000 of Government funding to purchase and plant community orchards. This has resulted in over 750 trees being planted across the district.
👉 Find out more at https://loom.ly/oUcV97I.
👉 Find out more at https://loom.ly/oUcV97I.
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🌳 Recently, we finalised the Coronation Living Heritage Fund programme, which has seen £26,000 of Government funding to purchase and plant community orchards. This has resulted in over 750 trees being planted across the district.
👉 Find out more at https://loom.ly/oUcV97I.
👉 Find out more at https://loom.ly/oUcV97I.
By the Cam this evening with @friendsofthecam.bsky.social, we stood for what still flows and still grows. When asked to accept the felling of orchards or the fouling of rivers, we will say no 🌳💧🚌❌ #Save✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
By the Cam this evening with @friendsofthecam.bsky.social, we stood for what still flows and still grows. When asked to accept the felling of orchards or the fouling of rivers, we will say no 🌳💧🚌❌ #Save✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...
📢 New preprint from the lab! 🥑🌳🍄
Diversity of culturable endophytic fungi associated with avocado orchards under organic and conventional management
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First chapter of Daniel Sánchez' PhD thesis! 🥳
Diversity of culturable endophytic fungi associated with avocado orchards under organic and conventional management
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First chapter of Daniel Sánchez' PhD thesis! 🥳
www.biorxiv.org
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 New preprint from the lab! 🥑🌳🍄
Diversity of culturable endophytic fungi associated with avocado orchards under organic and conventional management
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First chapter of Daniel Sánchez' PhD thesis! 🥳
Diversity of culturable endophytic fungi associated with avocado orchards under organic and conventional management
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First chapter of Daniel Sánchez' PhD thesis! 🥳
Your gift will help pupils plant and care for wildlife-sheltering, carbon-storing, fruiting school orchards and hedgerows, for the environment and their own wellbeing. 🌳🌱
There is still one more day left to donate 💚
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
There is still one more day left to donate 💚
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Orchards and Hedgerows for Schools – Big Give
Connecting young people with nature and wellbeing Young people really care about our planet and benefit from connecting with nature. Your gift will help pupils plant and care for wildlife-sheltering,…
donate.biggive.org
April 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Your gift will help pupils plant and care for wildlife-sheltering, carbon-storing, fruiting school orchards and hedgerows, for the environment and their own wellbeing. 🌳🌱
There is still one more day left to donate 💚
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
There is still one more day left to donate 💚
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Want to learn how to plant and look after traditional orchards and fruit trees? Book onto an upcoming orchard workshop kicking off with a session at Hill Top Farm on Friday 16 Jan!
🌳https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/orchard-workshops-2912649
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
🌳https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/orchard-workshops-2912649
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Want to learn how to plant and look after traditional orchards and fruit trees? Book onto an upcoming orchard workshop kicking off with a session at Hill Top Farm on Friday 16 Jan!
🌳https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/orchard-workshops-2912649
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
🌳https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/orchard-workshops-2912649
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Thank you everyone who helped make possible the purchase & restoration of land at #GreenFarm, next to #Monkwood 🙏
This has been a wonderful project engaging 700+ members of the local community & restoring woodland, wood pasture, meadows & orchards 🌳🐝🦋🐦🌼 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/news/celebra...
This has been a wonderful project engaging 700+ members of the local community & restoring woodland, wood pasture, meadows & orchards 🌳🐝🦋🐦🌼 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/news/celebra...
September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Thank you everyone who helped make possible the purchase & restoration of land at #GreenFarm, next to #Monkwood 🙏
This has been a wonderful project engaging 700+ members of the local community & restoring woodland, wood pasture, meadows & orchards 🌳🐝🦋🐦🌼 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/news/celebra...
This has been a wonderful project engaging 700+ members of the local community & restoring woodland, wood pasture, meadows & orchards 🌳🐝🦋🐦🌼 www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/news/celebra...
While we count down to the return of our on site events this spring, why not dive into our online archive of talks?
Explore fascinating topics with talks from experts on veteran trees, fungi, orchards, and natural flood management. 🌳🍄
👉 avonneedstrees.org.uk/videos-of-pa...
Explore fascinating topics with talks from experts on veteran trees, fungi, orchards, and natural flood management. 🌳🍄
👉 avonneedstrees.org.uk/videos-of-pa...
March 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
While we count down to the return of our on site events this spring, why not dive into our online archive of talks?
Explore fascinating topics with talks from experts on veteran trees, fungi, orchards, and natural flood management. 🌳🍄
👉 avonneedstrees.org.uk/videos-of-pa...
Explore fascinating topics with talks from experts on veteran trees, fungi, orchards, and natural flood management. 🌳🍄
👉 avonneedstrees.org.uk/videos-of-pa...
@hedgewatchers.bsky.social @outwoodscat.bsky.social Grants programme open for hedgerows & orchards for schools ... 🌳🌳🌳 #Hedgewatch 👏
📢 Orchards for Schools is now open for applications!
Orchards for Schools is our popular grant programme for UK schools that provides a free pack of fruit-bearing, wildlife-enhancing, carbon-storing orchard or fruiting hedgerow for your school!
Orchards for Schools is our popular grant programme for UK schools that provides a free pack of fruit-bearing, wildlife-enhancing, carbon-storing orchard or fruiting hedgerow for your school!
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@hedgewatchers.bsky.social @outwoodscat.bsky.social Grants programme open for hedgerows & orchards for schools ... 🌳🌳🌳 #Hedgewatch 👏
Do click on the link & learn more about the Community Orchard project I’ve been working on. It’s been a great project & it’s been so rewarding seeing the trees planted. 🌳 #orchards #community #trees
🎄It's day 19 of our Christmas countdown 🎄
This year our Natural Capital Team have planted 1,005 fruit and nut trees across 45 locations in Warwickshire, building orchards that will provide fresh fruit for generations to come.
Read more behind door 19: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/advent-calen...
This year our Natural Capital Team have planted 1,005 fruit and nut trees across 45 locations in Warwickshire, building orchards that will provide fresh fruit for generations to come.
Read more behind door 19: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/advent-calen...
December 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Do click on the link & learn more about the Community Orchard project I’ve been working on. It’s been a great project & it’s been so rewarding seeing the trees planted. 🌳 #orchards #community #trees
What better than some tree planting on #valentinesday?! Showing my love of fruit trees 🌳 🍎 #trees #orchards
February 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
What better than some tree planting on #valentinesday?! Showing my love of fruit trees 🌳 🍎 #trees #orchards
Effects of Azole Fungicides Use in Agriculture on a Selection of Non-Target Pathogenic Candida Tropicalis in the Environment: A Comparison of Two Prospective Surveys of the Same 53 Orchards in 2012 and 2018
⬆️ in fluc-R C tropicalis in 🌳🌳 sprayed w azole fungicides
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
⬆️ in fluc-R C tropicalis in 🌳🌳 sprayed w azole fungicides
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Effects of Azole Fungicides Use in Agriculture on a Selection of Non-Target Pathogenic Candida Tropicalis in the Environment: A Comparison of Two Prospective Surveys of the Same 53 Orchards in 2012 and 2018
⬆️ in fluc-R C tropicalis in 🌳🌳 sprayed w azole fungicides
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
⬆️ in fluc-R C tropicalis in 🌳🌳 sprayed w azole fungicides
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🌳 ☀️ Researchers compared #drought responses of wild var. sylvestris and traditional cultivars vs. the modern Barnea variety under 100 %, 33 %, and 10 % evapotranspiration.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#olive #olives #olivetrees #orchards #climate
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#olive #olives #olivetrees #orchards #climate
Frontiers | Exploring drought tolerance in wild and traditional olive varieties from the Southern Levant
Local olive germplasm of the southern Levant includes wild populations of var. sylvestris and local traditional cultivars that are thought to be well-adapted...
www.frontiersin.org
June 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🌳 ☀️ Researchers compared #drought responses of wild var. sylvestris and traditional cultivars vs. the modern Barnea variety under 100 %, 33 %, and 10 % evapotranspiration.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#olive #olives #olivetrees #orchards #climate
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
#olive #olives #olivetrees #orchards #climate
Many thanks to National Trust's The Weir Garden & other properties who hosted our #SevernTreescapes team to nosey around their wood pasture, woodland & orchards – we spotted wonderful trees, fairy fingers fungi & a beautiful (& rare) jennet pear tree 🌳💚
www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/severn-trees...
www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/severn-trees...
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Many thanks to National Trust's The Weir Garden & other properties who hosted our #SevernTreescapes team to nosey around their wood pasture, woodland & orchards – we spotted wonderful trees, fairy fingers fungi & a beautiful (& rare) jennet pear tree 🌳💚
www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/severn-trees...
www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/severn-trees...
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🌿 Nature
🌳 Trees
🐝 Bees
🍏 Orchards
🐸 Ponds
🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg
🚄 Sustainable public transport
🌍 Climate action
🐞 Insects
🌊 Clean water & air
🦊 Wildlife
🦋 Hedgerows
🌻 Wildflowers
♻️ Waste reduction
🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers
🌿 Nature
🌳 Trees
🐝 Bees
🍏 Orchards
🐸 Ponds
🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg
🚄 Sustainable public transport
🌍 Climate action
🐞 Insects
🌊 Clean water & air
🦊 Wildlife
🦋 Hedgerows
🌻 Wildflowers
♻️ Waste reduction
🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers
December 16, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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🌿 Nature
🌳 Trees
🐝 Bees
🍏 Orchards
🐸 Ponds
🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg
🚄 Sustainable public transport
🌍 Climate action
🐞 Insects
🌊 Clean water & air
🦊 Wildlife
🦋 Hedgerows
🌻 Wildflowers
♻️ Waste reduction
🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers
🌿 Nature
🌳 Trees
🐝 Bees
🍏 Orchards
🐸 Ponds
🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg
🚄 Sustainable public transport
🌍 Climate action
🐞 Insects
🌊 Clean water & air
🦊 Wildlife
🦋 Hedgerows
🌻 Wildflowers
♻️ Waste reduction
🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers
