We started our Annual General Meeting (this time celebrating our 100th Anniversary) with an Extraordinary General Meeting in which we voted to accept proxies and lowered the number of people required for a quorum, as in a previous year we nearly needed to enrol someone’s dog to get us over the minimum number required to hold […]
Annual and Extraordinary – our 100th Anniversary AGM & EGM Read More »
The CHAS is affiliated to Garden Organic, who are running a citizen science project with Coventry University on the impact of biochar on crop yield. If you’d like to take part please fill in this form and send it to Garden Organic. Information on biochar project Form to participate in biochar project
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I’ve just come back from an excellent holiday in these two countries and thought I’d share some impressions. The dominant scent of Hungary in spring is of lilac. Lilac trees, in all shades from white through to deep mauve, are everywhere – in gardens, roadside verges and town parks. It’s delicious, if sometimes overwhelming. The
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Idly musing the other day, it occurred to me that there are very few songs for gardeners – probably because gardening hasn’t yet been seen as “the new rock and roll” (with the honourable exception of Kim Wilde, of course). Songs with seemingly relevant titles turn out to be misleading. Strawberry Fields is about a
And straight in at number 1 … Read More »
