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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

 

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