The Community Orchard began with the generous offer from Kineton Sports and Social Club to provide, without rent, an area of unused land on their site to Getting Kineton Growing.

A small group came together in 2011 to explore and develop the possibilities, also enthused by the larger, award-funded project being developed in parallel by our neighbours in WOT2Grow (the Whacote, Oxhill and Tysoe community orchard) Like them we decided to develop a mixed orchard, not just of apple trees but a wider variety of fruit and nut trees but with a particular emphasis on local 'heritage' varieties. Without any initial financial resource we were lucky to have the help of Des Wells to help clear an initial site at a far, partially sheltered end of the playing fields and with individual or family sponsorship of for each of the initial projected twenty trees.