Hull Pickering Road Community Orchard May Celebrations

The Community Orchard at Pickering Road was founded as part of the NHS initiative to encourage people to eat their 5-a-day ration of fruit & veg and each year they hold events that tie in with the turning seasons. For their May Celebrations you could expect dancing around the Maypole, singing,morris dancing by Raving Maes Morris and of course Duncan the Obby Oss. The event lasted all afternoon and the blossom was out on all the fruit trees.

Helpful Hints

The May Celebrations haven’t been held since 2019. Click the link below for current events.

Refreshments, composting toilet and disabled parking are available onsite and the event was free of charge. General parking is on Pickering Road with access to the Orchard from Cranberry Way. All were welcome and it was very family friendly. Picnic facilities were available.

The May Celebrations used to be held on the Sunday preceding May Day Bank Holiday Monday but from 2014 it was usually, though not invariably, been on Bank Holiday Monday itself until it stopped in 2019.

In cases of extreme weather the event could  be postponed (so if in doubt it was wise to double check before setting off).

The orchard has 350 fruit trees and is run by volunteers who make  fruit juice during the harvest, which is August to November.   Visitors can sponsor the orchard by giving a donation and in return they receive a share of the apple harvest.

You can find the Orchard’s Facebook  pages here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/141585735857437/?fref=ts

and here: https://www.facebook.com/Pickeringroadorchard

For the Raving Mae’s Facebook page click here: https://www.facebook.com/theravingmaes

Thanks to Yvette Grindley for the photograph and for drawing my attention to the event.