Full newsletters are available to members only.
GOG Newsletter 1 Spring 2002
Gwen& Vera’s Fields (GWT reserve) orchard, Oxenhall
Orchards as nature reserves (FWAG)
GOG Newsletter 2 Autumn 2002
Museum Orchard, Brookthorpe
Fruit Identification contacts
Origin of the Apple
Noble chafer beetle in orchards (an appeal)
GOG Newsletter 3 Spring 2003
GOG library
BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers)
The Severnside Project/Urban Wildspace Project/Green Farm community orchard,
Quedgeley by Gloucester City Council
Orchards and Countryside Stewardship (DEFRA)
Spotlight on a Variety: Lemon Pippin of Gloucestershire (apple)
Blakeney Red (perry pear)
Blaisdon Red (plum)
GOG Newsletter 4 Autumn 2003
Plum Day (Flaxley)
Our first fruit identification course
Native plums of Gloucestershire (Charles Martell)
GOG library update
Apple Day events
Hartpury Historic Land & Buildings Trust
Bees and orchards
Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA): Apple Advice Factsheet
Traditional orchards – notes from owners
Cheltenham Tree Group
GOG Newsletter 5 Spring 2004
AGM outcome, including Gloucestershire Food Links and need for Orchard Survey
GOG library update
GOG cider press for rent
Gloucestershire Naturalists Society – wildlife sightings/bat survey/invertebrate survey/mistletoe bug/lichens/wildflowers in orchards
Orchard Tree Surgeons/Advice givers (Skilled Practitioners) update
The Woodland Trust
The Slow Food Movement
Sunnybank Vine Nursery/orchard invitation
Spotlight on a Variety: Taynton Codlin (apple)
Moat School Community Orchard
Fruitwood in Wind Instruments (an appeal)
HDRA – Plum Advice Factsheet
GOG Newsletter 6 Autumn 2004
Training, including Plum and Apple Days
Three Counties Showground Perry Pear Collection Visit
Fruit Identification
Gloucestershire Apple Varieties for Sale (local nursery)
Book Reviews
Websites
GOG Cider Press for Rent
GOG Orchard Survey
Old Gloucestershire Apples by Pamela Pugh
Cider Making by Chris Greatrix
Project Perry and Slow Food by Tom Oliver
Severn Estuary Partnership and S. Gloucestershire Council Grants
The Winterbourne Medieval Barn Project by Graham White
Natural Pest Control – Biodiversity Knows Best by Dr. Keith Alexander
Chemical Spray Drift
Honey Bees
Orchard Land Purchasing
Pick Your Own
Award!
Chairman’s Tip – budding and grafting
Skills Management & Rural Training (SMART) by Terry Robson (IT Tutor)
Cooks Corner!
Spotlight on a Variety – Ashmead – by Royal Appointment by Christine Leighton
Leaving your Genes in Apple DNA as a Legacy
Naturally Occurring Salicylates in Fruit and Veg Keeps us Healthy
Clever Labels
GOG Newsletter 7 Spring 2005
Training and Events
Annual General Meeting outcome and synopsis of Dr. Barrie Juniper’s talk – The Origin of the Domestic Apple, DNA analysis, update on Gloucestershire apple varieties
Book Reviews
Websites
Apple Key by Simon Clark
Spotlight on Varieties – Warden Pear/Catillac
Tree Preservation Orders
Grant scheme – Gloucestershire County Council
GOG Orchard Survey
Codlin Moth Trial
GOG Cider Press
HDRA – A Guide to Pruning Top Fruit - Advice Fact Sheet
Spotlight on GOG Members (National Trust/Glasshouse Orchard/Schools & Stroud Education Business Partnership + Community Supported Agriculture scheme/GreenGrocer Campaigner)
New Store – Made in Gloucestershire
Increasing Market Share of British Orchard Fruits by John Breach
Fruit Picker Needs Work
Question and Answers – Lichens
Gloucestershire Habitat Action Plan (HAP)
Corporate Members Update
Churchdown Local History Society
Marcher Apple Network – The Herefordshire Pomona on CD
Champagne and May Hill by Jim Chapman
GOG Newsletter 8 Autumn 2005
Training and Events, including Apple Day
Fruit Identification
Computerized Apple Keys for Identification
Book Reviews and CD/GOG Library
Websites
Spotlight on Varieties – corkscrew hazel (Frocester)
GOG Orchard Survey (brief appeal)
GOG Cider Press for rent
Equipment for Sale
Environmental Stewardship Scheme (contact details)
Habitat Action Plan (brief update)
Collections
Nurseries for Gloucestershire Varieties
Skilled Practitioners
Minsterworth Orchards (appeal)
GOG Publicity
Spotlight on GOG Members
Tree Stakes which Grow with the Tree
Cider as a Biofuel
Snippets – bonfires in orchards etc
GOG Newsletter 9 Spring 2006
Training, Events, Visits
Gloucestershire Orchards for All grant application
Gloucestershire County Council grant
Future of Brogdale Horticultural Trust
BBC Gardeners World
Britain’s First Biodiversity Minister
Books
Websites
Spotlight on GOG Members/Corporate Membership
Plum Tree Availability
Cheltenham Tree Group
Apple Tasting Results
Horsley Orchard Project
Bristol Orchards: Horfield & Thingwall Park
Clock Tower Community Orchard, Gloucester
Cider Crusher for Sale
Farm Shop Request
Land Needed
B&B France/Cider Trail
The Lightning Worm
Spiders in Orchards
Airpots & Where to buy them
Quince Day Norton Priory – Visit by GOG member
Green Farm Orchard, Quedgeley
Patulin
Gloucestershire Group of the Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings
The Grasslands Trust
Recipe
Snippets
NOF newsletter 7 titles
GOG Newsletter 10 Autumn 2006
Training & Events, including Apple Day
The Malvern Show (Pear Day inauguration)
Marketing
Fruit ID
Books/GOG Library
Websites
GOG Cider Press
Nurseries
News & Updates:
National Council for the Conservation of Plants & Gardens
People’s Trust for Endangered Species Traditional Orchards Project
Severn Vale Biodiversity Project
Tree Preservation Orders Criteria
National Fruit Collection – the Growers
Rural Skills Centre
Harts Barn Orchard Centre
Apple Tasting – Gloucestershire varieties
Blossom, Picking & Ripening records
New Farmers Market (Churchdown)
Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings
Cider Health Benefits
Artist to Paint Orchards
Toddington Orchard Company – appeal for info
Community Orchards in Gloucestershire
Spotlight on a Member:
Tidnor Wood Orchard Trust
Mulled Apple Juice Recipe
GOG Newsletter 11 Spring 2007
Perry by Tom Oliver
Apple Varietal Research Update by Charles Martell
Apple Preference Test by Juliet Bailey
Training & Events
Apple Day by Common Ground
Orchard Consultancy
Books & CD
GOG Library
Websites
GOG Directories & Planning Leaflet
Corporate Members
News & Articles:
Hartpury Success – Jim Chapman Funding Award
National Fruit Collection at Brogdale Horticultural Trust
Mycorrhizae
Gloucestershire Apple Varieties Listing by Charles Martell
Fruit Request
Black Mulberry Offer
Cider & Perry Festival
Apple Tree Pest & Disease Management by Garden Organic
Orchard Maintenance Information Sources
Polyphenol Grant in UK
Gloucester Orchards (Quedgeley & Hempsted)
Letter from South Gloucestershire
Biodiversity Action Plan Partnership
Vale Landscape Heritage Trust
Reminiscences – the Family Orchard
Orchard Equipment Sources
Snippets
Nat Orchard Forum gazetteer, literature & newsletter 9 titles
GOG Newsletter 12 Autumn 2007
National BAP priority habitat for traditional orchards/visit by Biodiversity Minister
Training and Events (including Apple Day & Fruit Identification, Plum Day, Perry Pear Day, Habitat Day, Social & Juicing event)
Nurseries
Books/Library
Websites
BBC Gardeners World visit
Orchard Centres (Brookthorpe & Hartpury)
Hunt for Rare Pear (Bloody Bastard)
Cotswold Orchards/South Gloucestershire Council
Green Farm Orchard, Quedgeley
PTES Leaflet – a guide to wildlife & management
Ledbury Meeting – Sustain Good Practice Guide
Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder
Fireblight & Plum Pox
Malvern Apricot
Equipment for sale/hire
Fruit wanted/offered
Livestock offered
Land purchase advice contact
Spotlight on a Member (Butterfly Garden/Educational Resource)
Triple Bottom Line Accounting
Snippets
NOF newsletter 10 titles
GOG Newsletter 13 Spring 2008
AGM (Charles Martell’s Gloucestershire Apple Data launch, GOG as a charity, Talks by Ted Green of the Ancient Tree Forum and Dr. Keith Alexander on Noble Chafer beetle & other BAP species, apple tastings).
Training and Events (including Budding workshop, Plum Day)
Blossom Events, National Moth Night, Malvern Shows, Cirencester & Gloucester Orchard Exhibitions, Woodland Trust course, National Fruit ID course (Simon Clark)
Glos varieties for sale
Help in Your Orchard
Technical Advice Notes
Traditional Orchards National BAP status
Orchard & Rural Skills Centre at Brookthorpe
BBC Gardeners World
Perry Pear Centre at Hartpury
Sources of Funding (including Severn Trent Community Recovery Fund through GOG)
Gloucestershire Nature Map
Mistletoe
Triple Bottom Line Accounting (Jan 2008 update)
Produce World
Bisley Orchards & Symondsbury Apple Project (Dorset) Local History Pack
Schools Orchard Pack (Bud to Beaker, Kent)
Gloucestershire Apricot
DNA analysis
Proposed Local Register for Local Varieties (Simon Clark)
New GOG pasteurizer for hire
Looking for Land?
National Vine Collection
Orchards Conference
Walnuts in Sharpham Park, Glastonbury
Pear Ripening recording
Community Orchards in Gloucestershire
Parish Grasslands Project, Forest of Dean
Memorial Woodlands, Bristol
Street Trees Protection
Gloucestershire 1000
Neighbouring Orchard Groups
New Groups
Books (extensive list)
Snippets
NOF newsletter 11 titles
GOG Newsletter 14 Autumn 2008
Training/Events (including GOG communal juicing & social)
Apple Day in & around Gloucestershire
Perry Pear Day
Schools packs
Fruit Identification
Nurseries
Consultancy
Books/GOG library
Websites
Single Payment Scheme
Perry Centre update
Severn Trent funding
Peoples Trust for Endangered Species
Slow Food UK Heritage Orchard Campaign
Juicing Equipment etc for sale/hire
Fruit Wanted
Walnut Seedlings Offered
National Moth Night Results
Thingwall Park Community Orchard, Bristol
Gloucestershire Centre for Environmental Records/Glos Naturalists Society
Work Wanted
Feature: The Perry Pear (Jim Chapman)
Brogdale Farm
GOG Newsletter 15 Spring 2009
Training/Events (including Blossom Day and Perry Pear Centre opening, budding workshops)
AGM outcomes
Nurseries
Orchard Consultants/Skilled Practitioners
Natural England’s Technical Information Notes
The 2 Orchard Centres
Perry Pear Collections
Charitable Status Update
Gloucestershire Orchard Surveys
Sources of Funding
University of Leeds Apple Pollination Survey & Bees
Perry Pear Orchard Saved from Development
Local History
Schools
Biodiversity South West
The Million Ponds Project
Orchard Photographer
Community Orchards in Gloucestershire
Magic Interactive Map
Orchard & Fruit Wanted
Neighbouring Orchard Groups
Books/Library
Bramley Apple Bicentenary
Local Culinary Apples & Perry Pears
Brogdale Farm
Agroforestry Research Trust
Mistletoe Moth Recording
Poem
NOF newsletter 13 titles
GOG Newsletter 16 Autumn 2009
Equipment for Hire/Sale
Marketing Website & Forum Launch
Charitable Status Update
Art Exhibition
Apple Day Events in & around Gloucestershire
Open Day GOG Orchard & Rural Skills Centre
Fruit Identification
Cider Apples Wanted
Common Ground Community Orchard Award
Orchards GOG/Severn Trent Water have Assisted with
Tree Preservation Orders/Orchard Protection in Planning System – Advice Website
Natural England Report on Biodiversity of Traditional Orchards – Dr. Heather Robertson
Traditional Orchard Project Data Online
New PTES Orchards & Wildlife Management Guide
Mistletoe Marble Moth Survey Report & Factsheet
Funding News – SITA Trust
Grazing Animals Project UK
Commercial Apple Website
Heritage Apples & Climate Change
Books
NCCPG Perry Pear Collection
Second Article on Perry Pears: Three Counties & Mainland Europe – Jim Chapman
Polish Worker Needs Orcharding Experience
Wassailing
NOF Newsletter 14 Contents
GOG Newsletter 17 Spring 2010
Events/Training
Message from Sue Clifford of Common Ground “Boughing Out”
AGM Update
Apples of Gloucestershire Update from Charles Martell
Primitive Apples on May Hill by Charles Martell
Nurseries, Consultants, Skilled Practitioners
Technical Information Notes from Natural England
Environmental Stewardship Scheme update (Chris Wedge of Natural England)
Funding
Increased Duty on Cider
More Orchards as Key Wildlife Sites
Traditional Orchards Survey Results Online (Peoples Trust for Endangered Species)
England’s Lost and Threatened Species
South West Regional Biodiversity Plan and Gloucestershire Biodiversity Partnership
GOG Marketing Website and Forum
Orchard Films
South Gloucestershire Updates
Work Experience at Charlton Orchards
LandShare
Food Map Website
Gloucestershire Food Vision new contact details
Westons Cider contact
Ragmans Lane Farm
Books/Library
Feature Article: DNA Fingerprinting Fruit by Felicidad Fernandez-Fernandez
DNA Analysis of Perry Pear Collection
Conference on Pears by Simon Clark
Fruit ID Breakthrough
More on Bees
Plum Orchard and Website
Huntingdonshire Plum Festival
Ancient Tree Hunt Cherry Bloomsday Project
New Apple Rootstock
Compost Mulches Increase Yield
Orchard Planted on Heathrows Third Runway
Community Orchards in Gloucestershire
Local History
Neighbouring Orchard Groups
Brogdale Farm
International Orchard News
Fruit Related Literature – Nat Orchard Forum
Stop Press: Arable Plants course
GOG Summer Flier 2010
Charitable Status update
GOG Website as a resource
Plums
Events, including GOG visit to Wick Court, Arlingham & Westons Cider, Much Marcle
Pear Days, including Hartpury Orchard Centre and Malvern
Equipment for Sale/Hire
Members Orchards (Townsend Orchard, Whittington Lodge Farm, Horsley Orchard Project)
The Scrumping Project (South Gloucestershire)
Wildlife in Orchards (Chicken-of-the-Woods, Laetiporus sulphureus)
Considerations when Planting Perry Pears by Jim Chapman
Not a Forest, Not a Garden by Jacqueline Sarsby
Books
Funding Sources
Out of County groups
Applejack/Apple Brandy
GOG Newsletter 18 Autumn 2010
GOG now a registered charity as Gloucestershire Orchard Trust
Online & Offline Marketplace
Apple & Orchard Day listing for Gloucestershire, South Glos & surrounding areas
Other Events
Fruit ID
Books
Websites
Members and Non-Members Orchards
Transition Newent
Weddings in Orchards!
National Collection of Quince
Supermarket Woes
Spider Mite Control
Wassailing
Nat Orchard Forum newsletter contents
Red Fleshed Pears and Apples
GOG February Flier 2011
The Orchard Centres
GOG Website as a Resource
Membership Renewal
GOG AGM
Pruning & Grafting Training Dates
Other Courses
Blossom Events
Environmental Stewardship
Apple Day 2010
Historical Pear Conference
South Gloucestershire Orchards
Traditional Orchard Surveys & Noble Chafer
Mistletoe
Fruit Trees in Gloucestershire in 1909
Tytherington Community Planting
GOG publicity, including Apple-Share (Hege Usborne) & GOG Online Market
Grants
Orchard Memories Request
GOG Library
Out of County Events & Training
National Orchard Forum absorbed by UK HAP website
GOG Newsletter 19 Spring 2011
New GOT Bank Account
Putting Traditional Orchards on the Map by Esther Collis
Integrated Biodiversity Delivery Areas by Becky Lashley
New National Online Marketplace
DNA Report by Jim Chapman
Alberts Award by PN Symonds
Traditional Orchards Project on Kemerton Estate
VQ Country Wines for Sale
GOG/GOT AGM 2011 Minutes & Photos
Events, Training & Courses, including Blossom Day
Orchard Management Questionnaire
Perry Pear & Cider Apple Nursery
Books
Stop Press: First National Traditional Orchards Habitat Action Plan Conference
GOG Summer Flier 2011
In memoriam: GOG founder Richard Fawcett, also Ray Williams
Plums; varieties, purchase, Walcot nursery starting to sell Gloucestershire varieties for us , identification, festivals.
Events
Courses
Equipment for sale and hire
Community Orchards
Pollination, Bees
Fruit Pickers
Forage Maps
Fruit & Drink Initiatives
Fruit for Sale
Books
Funding
Apple Day labels
Snippets
GOG Newsletter 20 Autumn 2011
Community Orchard Guide
Old Orchard for Sale
Apple/Orchard Events in and around Gloucestershire 2011
South Gloucestershire Activites
Hartpury Mill & Press Facilities for Hire
Recent Events
National Quince Collection
Dean Meadow Group
Wassailing
Books
Fruit/Picker
Orchard Praise Hymn
Snippets
Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group Award
Donation
GOG February Flier 2012
Renewals/Accounts
Charles Martells New Online Perry Pear Book Launch
AGM Agenda
Wassail Reminder
Training (especially at the two Orchard Centres)
Photos from Past Events (Malvern Show, Apple Day)
Three Counties AONB Traditional Orchard Project
Chimera Apple
Royal Tree Planting Record
Funding
New GOG Leaflet for Community Groups/Transition Towns
The Scrumping Project
Small Scale Cider Making (Juliet Bailey)
Orchard Stewardship on the River Severn Lock Islands & Canal
Herefordshire Orchards Network of Excellence (HONE)
Apple Identification (Isle of Wight, East of England, GOG)
Dried Apples - Somerset Apple Treats
Gloucestershire Food & Drinks Directory
Stroud Apple Town
Blossom Events
Jonathan Briggs Mistletoe League Survey
The Special Wildlife Heritage of Gloucestershire's Traditional Orchards (Keith Alexander)
GOG Summary
