Louise Brierley, BBC Midlands Today
Community orchards are returning to Birmingham, with the aim of teaching people how to grow their own food and be part of the solution to climate change.
They are being set up by the Fruit and Nut Village charity which started in 2018 and now has more than 50 sites.
Fruit trees, bushes and other perennial plants can now be seen growing on spare bits of public land, at allotments and outside churches and mosques.
Once established, the long-term aim is to distribute the produce to those most in need, but local people are also invited to pick the odd bit of fruit.
The charity relies on teams of volunteers to look after the sites, among them homeless people.
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