Members of the Tree Fruit Society of Wales are involved with the Afallon Teilo project in Llandeilo. The aim of this project is to set up a community orchard on land owned by the National Trust.
March 2008
Members of the Tree Fruit Society of Wales are acting as consultants to the CREATION project in Blaengarw, creating a 5 acre orchard on reclaimed land.
Autumn 2008
The society hopes to begin planting an orchard around the recently refurbished Pineapple House at Scolton Manor . Many thanks to Sheepwalk Horticultural Services who are supplying specially grafted trees of welsh varieties.
21/05/08
Gerald is recovering well from his operation. He is very positive in his outlook and hopes to be back in the Gardening club meetings in October.
Further to the Meetings in May the Garden Clubs will meet once a month until October. The Wednesday group will meet on the second Wedsnesday of each month at 10.30 am, the Tuesday group will meet on the third Tuesday of each month at 7.00pm. In June the theme of the meetings will be Members Gardens, with a number of members giving short talks on their own gardens.
3/09/08
Gerald is much fitter now and plans on restarting the Tuesday and Wednesday meetings at the end of the October Half term Break.
The Tuesday meeting will be on Tuseday 4th November, at 7.00pm.
The Wednesday meeting will be Wednesday 5th November at 10.30am.
The interim monthly meetings will continue in October, being on Weds 8th October at 10.30 am and Tues 14th October at 7.00pm.
The Apple and Fruit day is scheduled for 11th October 10.00am to 4.00pm . We need volunteers to help on the day. If you can spare a couple of hours (or more), please contact John Rattenbury (john@rattenbury.com) 01437 731651 or Lesley Jones (lesley_r_j@hotmail.com) 01437 710398
14/09/08
A poster for the Apple and Fruit Day is available here as a PDF file. It would be much appreciated if you could download it and print 1 or 2 copies for display in your local area.
11/11/08
The committee met last night to discuss next years programme (see the programme page)
It was decided that, due to the unavoidable programme disruption this year, members who had paid their 2008 subscriptions would receive a complimentary 2009 membership.
Suggested dates for the 2009 Apple and Fruit day are a 2 day event on the weekend of August 22/23 2009, with an apple identification day on October 31st 2009. Mark these dates in your diary. Volunteers will be needed to help on and before the event, so please let us know if you can help.
!!/12/08 Plans for the orchard around the restored Pineapple House continue. We hope to plant around 40 trees, grafted onto dwarfing root stocks. The costs of this will be met from society funds. If you wish to donate, without cost to yourself, using easysearch as your search engine will earn the society approx 0.5p for every search you make. To do this follow this link and select Tree Fruit society of Wales as your cause. If you like it you can add easysearch to your browser from that page.
