{"id":19382,"date":"2026-06-05T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19382"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:07:15","slug":"traditional-orchards-in-stoke-on-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/06\/05\/traditional-orchards-in-stoke-on-trent\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional orchards in Stoke-on-Trent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked for Stoke-specific items in the new <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staffordshire.gov.uk\/newsroom\/2026\/help-shape-staffordshires-nature-recovery-plans\">Local Nature Recovery Strategy<\/a><\/em> for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (Consultation draft, May 2026).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Action T12. Appeal for information on orchards&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They consider it possible that Stoke may be one of three districts in the county that still have a few traditional orchards, or partial relics of traditional orchards with a few old variety fruit-trees left. Let them know, if you know of one locally.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, in terms of the Stoke-specific Action items nestled among the boilerplate copy-paste and questionable climate claims. Though several other potential Actions seem relevant to Stoke, such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; reducing heathland fires in summer<br \/>\n&#8211; creating viable new ponds<br \/>\n&#8211; create rich new hedgerows<br \/>\n&#8211; care for ex-quarry habitats, especially rocky outcrops<br \/>\n&#8211; wildlife corners \/ strips on allotments<br \/>\n&#8211; reduce light pollution <\/p>\n<p>No mention of litter and dumping, though, or of keeping dogs out of nature reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the latest BlueSky data, [tree] canopy cover in Staffordshire County is currently around 14.5%, whilst Stoke-on-Trent has similar canopy cover of 14.7%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to think the city is as tree-ish as the county, and I assume the figures were calculated on local council area and not on postcode (the ST postcode ranges far afield). If so, then leafy Kidsgrove would have been excluded from the Stoke tree-count. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked for Stoke-specific items in the new Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (Consultation draft, May 2026). &#8220;Action T12. Appeal for information on orchards&#8221;. They consider it possible that Stoke may be one of three districts in the county that still have a few traditional orchards, or partial relics of traditional orchards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19398,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382\/revisions\/19398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}