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The Devon Orchards Book

By: Michael Gee(Author)
144 pages, colour & b/w photos
The Devon Orchards Book
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  • The Devon Orchards Book ISBN: 9780857043108 Hardback Nov 2018 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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Think of Devon and you are likely to have an image as a county of orchards and cider.

But historically this was by no means always the case, and in truth Devon presented many challenges to the growing of fruit. This ground-breaking book explains how special circumstances enabled ale-drinking Devon to become a cider county in Tudor and Stuart times. So many orchards were planted that swathes became surplus to requirements and went into decline for the best part of two centuries.

There has been a remarkable revival over the last few decades. Autumn Apple Days have become big events, and new ciders and juices with local provenance have appeared. New orchards range from big volume growers contracted to the cider industry using new varieties and techniques to small-scale community and domestic situations with ancient varieties and traditional management techniques.

The expertly written and beautifully illustrated volume investigates this recent turn-round and offers a positive vision of the future, with practical suggestions on how lovers of Devon might ensure it remains a county of orchards.

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Biography

Michael Gee was born south of Manchester, and educated south of Liverpool at Birkenhead School. He has degrees in Geography (Oxford) and Town & Country Planning (Edinburgh). He worked as a chartered planner in local and central government, consultancy and the charitable sector before moving to Devon in 1987 as Director of the Dartington North Devon Trust.

In 1990 he inaugurated North Devon’s ‘Save our Orchards’ Campaign; it became Orchards Live which he chaired. His particular interest was saving North Devon’s own cherries, (mazzards), from extinction, and he helped establish the orchard on Landkey’s Millennium Green. He was awarded a BEM for services to orchard conservation in 2013.

By: Michael Gee(Author)
144 pages, colour & b/w photos
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