Mini Orchard Planting at Camberwell

Camberwell College of Arts has been gifted fruit trees by Veolia to create our own mini orchard. Come and join the tree presentation and then get hands on to plant the saplings.

In the UK, we have been eating fruit from our orchards for almost 3,000 years. Sadly, the number of orchards has been reducing. In the last 70 years alone the land for orchards has gone from 80,000 hectares to 20,000 ... equivalent to losing 147,600 football fields. Most of these have disappeared in just the last five years. UAL is one of the first Universities in the country to join the Veolia Orchard scheme, a national network of over 1,995 trees across the country.

Veolia manages recycling and waste for Southwark Council. They are committed to finding ways to reduce waste in the first place and to make sure that everything that is put in a recycling bin is turned into something new.

Our trees will be coming from Grow at Brogdale in Kent. They will already be between 1.2m and 1.5m tall and expected to grow three metres tall and wide producing apples and pears to be harvested in future years.

We'll meet at 1.30pm in reception at Peckham Rd site, Camberwell College of Arts. We will carry the trees to the planting site, at Portland House (South), have a short presentation by Veolia and then get our gardening gloves on and spades out for the planting.

This session workshop is open to students and staff across the University of the Arts London. We'll meet at 1.30pm in reception at Peckham Rd site, Camberwell College of Arts. We will carry the trees to the planting site, at Portland House (South), have a short presentation by Veolia and then get our gardening gloves on and spades out for the planting.

Field Notes formspartofFaultLines,UniversityoftheArtsLondon’sEarthWeek2026programme,whichbringsstaffandstudentstogetheracrosstheuniversityforclimateandecologicalaction.