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Langford Community Orchard Group

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OrchardDear Orchard Friends,

There’s lots of good news about the Orchard!

1. We’ve been ‘given’ an allotment on the Clay Pits site. It’s just over the fence from the Orchard. It’s big enough to have 6ft x 4ft shed to keep some tools which will be useful. So lets do some fund-raising for a shed! Please let us know if you want to help with the allotment or Orchard before the next work session as there’s lots to do. Lets think about what plans we have for it…trees…fruit bushes….more rhubarb!

2. The amazing folk at Bicester Green have made us a bench! It’s crafted with love and ingenuity! We need to decide where to site it and how to stop it being removed!

3. Bea and Steve have made a very attractive hazel ‘hedge’ to protect the newly planted currant bushes from enthusiastic mowers. It’s already saved a lovely clump of cowslips under the cooking apple tree from being cut down.

4. The ‘old’ currant bushes are sprouting new growth in response to the light and space and freedom from brambles as well as a dollop of cow manure. The strawberry plants look good and have been weeded. The pear trees have lots of blossom and the apple blossom is coming out, so here’s hoping for no late frosts and plenty of fruit this year.

5. One brave fritillary has been flowering in the ‘damp square’ also protected by Bea’s hazel twig fence.

6. We are invited to Chipping Norton Orchard’s Blossom Day. Sunday 27th April 12.00 – 3.00pm. Please see here for details and contact Pam for more. It’s great fun with food and music and a lovely community orchard to see.

Our next Orchard sessions are Thursday May 1st, Sunday May 25th, Thursday June 26th, Saturday July 26th. All at 2.00 – 4.00 pm. Tea provided! 

Please bring gardening gloves and your favourite spade/fork/trowel/shears etc.

So, what jobs need doing? 

a) The allotment needs weeding + fertilizing with manure ready for autumn planting.
b) The new currant bushes need weeding and watering and mulching.
c) Nettles under the mulberries, daffodils and the apple tree by the gate need removing
d) The bramble pile needs clearing

We look forward to seeing you and wish you a Happy Easter.
Pam, Claudia and Susan
(phone 01869-245313)

Litter Pick 12 October 2013

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Please remember the ‘Litter Pick’ on Saturday 12th October. Melanie Magee and co will be meeting at the Langford village hall at 10 o’clock. Bacon sandwiches and tea/coffee will be provided afterwards, courtesy of the LVCA.

Green Bite training course for low carbon living

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green_bite_webposter-1Grassroots Bicester in conjunction with an Oxford organisation called ReachAbility are putting on a FREE course for anyone (over 16) with the germ of an idea for a project to benefit both the people of Bicester and the environment. The course aims to give the skills and confidence to get the project off the ground. It’s a six-week evening course on a Thursday at St Edburg’s Church Hall, 3 weeks before Easter and 3 weeks after, with a 2-week break at Easter.

Open Day at St Mary’s Church, Launton

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This Anglican church in Launton includes in its Parochial Church Council and congregation a number of Langford residents, and also receives enquiries from Langford for baptism and marriage.

The church is holding an Open Day on December 1st from 11.00am to 3.00pm. As well as Christmas crafts for children there will be Christmas refreshments, and parish registers along with other historical items will be on display.
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Langford Litter Pick October 2012

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A litter pick is being arranged for Saturday 27th October, from 9.30 to 10.45am after meeting at the Community Hall in Nightingale Place. The area covered will include paths around Langford Village School, with additional areas dependant on the number of volunteers available. Please participate if you can and bring the children along too. Refreshments will be provided afterwards at the Community Hall.