Seed Gathering Season

(Nicked from the Tree Councils site)

The Tree Council’s
Seed Gathering Season
23 September - 23 October 2007


Trees Matter - Make the Most of Them.

Autumn festival to make the most of trees for their seeds, nuts and fruits, and autumn colours. Starting on the autumn equinox (considered to be the first day of autumn), this festival encourages everyone, particularly schoolchildren and families, to gather seeds to grow the trees of the future or to enjoy fruit in jams and pies. People can go for a walk to collect seeds, nuts and fruits from local parks and woods or take part in organised events.

Seed Gathering Season is the time to gather seeds to grow a whole range of new trees for ‘your ground’ — anywhere you live, work, learn or enjoy yourself that would be all the better for more trees — or to pick or buy fruit for delicious jams or pies, so helping to ensure the survival of local orchards and fruit tree varieties and the wildlife they sustain.

Apple Day on October 21, the annual celebration of apples, orchards and local distinctiveness initiated in 1990 by Common Ground, a Tree Council partner organisation, falls at the end of Seed Gathering Season. http://www.commonground.org.uk/