SOG’S SPRING/SUMMER PROGRAMME 2025

Out of courtesy to our hosts for each visit, Rachel (strivens58@btinternet.com or 01743 891607) will email the full membership a month before each visit to see whether you will be attending so numbers can be confirmed and refreshments organised. As with all visits we like to car-share as much as possible and full address details are sent out beforehand.


May 25th (Sun) - 2.00 pm - Moat Hall, Annscroft, Shrewsbury SY5 8AZ.  

A very established 1-acre garden around an old farmhouse within a dry moat.  Includes a well organised and extensive kitchen garden, fruit garden and orchard for self-sufficiency. Colourful herbaceous borders, stumpery, raised cut flower borders, 2/3rd acre pond and many interesting stone items around the grounds.  Access is good throughout. This is an NGS listed garden so a contribution of £6 will be required and this will include tea, coffee and cakes.


June 29th (Sun) - 2.00pm onwards - Celebrating 35 years of Shropshire Organic Gardeners at Members’ garden, Angela and Francis Cattermole, Evergreen, Ford Heath, Shrewsbury SY5 9GG.

This will be a celebratory garden party, so if you are in touch with any past members of SOGs, please let Rachel know so an invitation can go out to them too.  It will be a Bring and Share event and we hope to have a pizza oven going along with some BBQ’s – cakes, savouries, drinks (alcohol too if you wish).  Bring chairs, blankets but most importantly, yourselves. Angela and I would appreciate any offers of help in the morning to get things set up.  More details out in early June. Oh, and if anyone has a decent gazebo or two we could borrow, please let Rachel know as well.



 July 20th (Sun) - 2.00pm - Sam and Kate Davies, Shepherd’s Barn, Corfton, Craven Arms SY7 9LD.

Following their talk in February, Sam and Kate are opening their 2 acre smallholding to SOGs members for one last time this month, so don’t miss out on this visit.  It is a beautiful site with plenty to see, especially the very large veg growing area and lots of tips from Sam.  There is a charge of £5 per paid up SOGs member to cover their time, and lots of tea and cake (£2.50 will be covered by funds). If you wish to bring a non-member visitor the cost will be £7.50 per person.

 

August (date tbc) - 2.00pm - Woodside Allotments near Telford

Details to follow

 

September 21st (Sun) - 2.00pm - Wade Muggleton, Station Road Permaculture Garden, Stottesdon, Kidderminster DY14 8TT

A former lecturer and countryside officer, Wade Muggleton is an author and Permaculturalist (of some 30 yrs), living in a semi with an 80’ x 40’ rectangle garden behind it. 21 years ago when he and his family moved in, it was lawn from top to bottom on heavy Shropshire clay.  Now they grow c20 types of veg and have 15-20 fruit trees, all grown on permaculture principles in this amazing normal-size garden.  You won’t see bare soil anywhere but you will see potatoes growing in straw.  Full details nearer the time.



October 18th (Sat) - 10.30am (NB morning visit) - Tom Adams (aka Tom the Apple Man), Tom Adams Fruit Tree Nursery, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry SY10 7LX

Five years on we revisit Tom’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery where he specialises in hard to find heritage apple varieties from the English/Welsh borderlands, along with Pears, Plums and Damson, Cherry, Quince and Medlar.  All trees are grown using Organic, Agroforestry and Permaculture principles.  We first visited Tom not long after he had moved to his new nursery site so this is a chance to see his progress. 



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