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Timetable for 2009-2010
General goals for this year:
  • Create Community orchard, and plant a few trees and soft fruit. This is a long-term project which will take several years to finish.

 

  • Continue to develop communty garden area started last year.

 

  • Allotment holders plant year 2 - and of course the new allotment holders have to break in their ground first!

 

  • Build a Community shelter.

 

  • More learning workshops and advice sessions from local experts.

 

  • More BBQs! Hopefuly the weather will be better!

 

  • We need to do some fund-raising this year, to buy plants for the community areas, pay for petrol to mow the grass etc
 
 
Timetable of events and workshops
 
Sunday 17 May: - plant and jumble sale at The Tavern - fund raising. Help needed to run the stalls. Please talk to Sara.
 
Highgrove gardening team - are visiting in May to offer advice on composting and organic planting.
 
Sunday 7 June: working day: More details to follow
  
Saturday and Sunday 13-14 June: Shelter building workshop
(2 days)
Johno Kimberly-Clarke from the Cotswold Forest School will help us to build a shelter from natural materials in the community garden area.  He will need help!  Please come along.  This will be a temporary structure to sit in when it's wet.  Please don't smoke in here - we don't want set light to it accidentally!
 
Sunday 5 July: - working day followed by AGM and BBQ. More details to follow
 
July tba: Teenage shelter building day with Dave
 
August - relax
 
Saturday 5 September: Kemble Village Produce Show, in conjunction with the WI
 
Saturday 26 September: Celebration Harvest BBQ and roundhouse building
 
Sunday 4 October - final working day and fruit harvest
 
November - 'bonfire' BBQ
 
January 2010 - fees due again