On Saturday the 25th we held a volunteer day at Oxen Park. The task was to put a thick blanket of mulch around each apple tree in our orchard that is all of nine months old. A small but perfectly formed group enjoyed a day of warm sunshine punctuated with icy showers and managed to distribute about one and a half tonnes of mulch around about a hundred trees! The trees have done really well and they will receive their first formative pruning this winter (why not come along and