What will the landscape of the Clyde Valley look like in years to come? Will the orchards still be there? How can we keep the orchards and create a future for them? The Clyde and Avon Valley Landscape Partnership are looking for your views on the future of the Valley and how everyone can work together to try and ensure that orchards do remain part of the area’s outstanding landscape.

Orchards are an important part of our local heritage and in their heyday in the 19th century the Clyde Valley was Scotland’s leading commercial fruit producing area. Since then, the markets for local fruit have slowly declined and today some orchards are in danger of being lost. However the orchards are an important feature of our landscape and provide an important resource at a time when local produce is starting to be valued by consumers.

Local people and local organisations are vital to the long term survival of orchards in the Clyde Valley” says Chris Parkin, leading the project with the Rural Development Trust “ We want to hear from orchard owners as well as the wider community on how they see the orchards in the coming decades and what they would like to see done