'orchards' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a planted area of fruit trees. For example: "We drove past several orchards on our way to the beach."
I'm a Chilham man myself; there's no more peaceful spot in the nation than this hilltop village's square, birdsong tooting, surrounded by black-and-white cottages, orchards and oasts.
According to the Labour Uncut blog, Shakespeare told an LGA executive meeting that northerners affected by rising unemployment and public sector cuts should take up fruit collecting: "The north may replace the Romanians in the cherry orchards … and that may be a good thing".
"Cider is a quintessentially British drink," she says and about half her 100 acres of orchards grow the unique English bitter-sweet cider apple.
The sub-county's 15 schools are being assisted to create orchards and woodlots – small portions of land containing trees - to provide fruit for pupils to eat and for the school to sell.
Bill Oddie has told the Radio Times that he wants to see children once again straying into gardens and orchards to scrump apples.
The sun was beginning to set, flooding the citrus orchards and olive groves with a flaming, gold light.
On the five-day trip, you'll stay in the Berber village of Ouirgane in the foothills of the High Atlas to sample the Berbers' simple way of life, virtually unchanged for centuries, with farmers tending their orchards and fields, and goatherds watching over their charges in the hills.
I learned to prune apples at the side of Jim and Charlie in the orchards at Wisley.
But the oasis is flecked with houses and a patchwork of farms and pear orchards.
The berm, as it is known, cuts through farmland and orchards, separating the shrinking lands of the Iraqi state as it has existed for 95 years from the expanding territory of the new Islamic caliphate.
THE curved roofs and pear orchards continue as you cross from Tottori prefecture on the west coast of Japan's main island into neighbouring Hyogo just to the east.
