Winter meetings are usually held at St Chadd's meetings rooms on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm. Visitors most welcome Our next events...
SOGS Summer Programme
May 5th & 6th Attingham Plant Fair – SOGs stall
May 23rd (Thurs) 6.30pm Ford Hall Farm, Market Drayton.
Guided walk around farm with Charlotte Hollins to see the latest developments and new projects. Tea and cakes in the café supplied by the farm, cost £4.50 per person. Please note early start time (to fit tea & cakes in at end!)
June 16th (Sun) 2.00pm Lower Wallop Farm, near Westbury.
Approx 10 miles south west of Shrewsbury. Guided tour of an organic mixed farm. Beef, sheep, pigs, rare breeds, environmental enhancements and species rich fields. Please note we will be walking around the farm, not driven. Please bring cakes. See www.lowerwallop.co.uk for more info on the farm.
July 21st (Sun) Annual coach trip to Sarvari Research Trust, near Bangor.
The trust breeds blight resistant strains of potatoes using time honoured non GM techniques. They have bred seven varieties of Sarpo potatoes, some of which we sold for the first time this year at our potato day. They rely on support from individuals, friends and “crowd funding” to continue their work. Guided tour by research director David Shaw. Option to have meal in village café afterwards or picnic on the beach. Please note prior booking by July 1st essential for this trip. Please contact Anne Bartles-Smith on 01743 363282 or annb_smith@yahoo.co.uk to book seats.
Coach departs 9. 00am from Abbey Foregate car park.
August - Flower Show 9th-10th Useful weeds display on stall.
September 15th 2.30pm. (Sun.) Visit Treflach Farm near Oswestry
Family enterprise “building a resilient and sustainable community that regenerates the natural environment and nourishes local people”.
www.treflachfarm.co.uk
October 13th(Sun) 2.00pm – visit Siobhan’s two fields and new house , at Habberley, nr Pontesbury. SOG’s advice wanted on options of how to manage two overgrown fields and a large garden. Stream and new pond. Siobhan will provide some cakes but please note they are usually the last to be eaten!
More information phone Chairman Peter on: 01939 260935 or
Siobhan 01743 233544 or David 01743 235635
Previous meetings
Wednesday 3rd April AGM
Wednesday 6th March - 'Tasty buds, luscious leaves ans succelent shoots' Talk by Kim and Rob Hurst of the Cottage Herbery, Tenbury Wells
Saturday 9th February Potato Day at Montford Village Hall *Link to Potato day page
Wednesday 6th February - Cultivation of Potatoes Talk by Derek Jones
*Monday 12th November 2012- Gardeners' Question time *(note the date is a monday) SOGS members can put their questions and gardening problems to a panel of expert gardenrs including Richard Bailey, Martin Ford (BBC Radio Shropshire) and John Gale, specialist in bugs and other diseases from Stafford.
Monday 10th Dec 2012-Christmas Bring and Share * (note once again the date is a monday)
Wednesday 2nd January - The Life and History of the DroversDavid Talk by Idris Steptoes on the Welsh Livestock drovers.
For more information ring David Simpson on 01743 235635 or email Siobhan at siobhanatbellevue@tiscali.co.uk .
Winter meetings held in St Chadd's meeting rooms. The first Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm Visitors extremely welcome.
More information phone Chairman Peter on: 01939 260935 or
Siobhan 01743 233544 or David 01743 235635
