Garden Club visits and activities 2011

1. Ardchattan Gardeners Group

The Garden group attached to the North Connel and district Horticultural Society.

Please use this survey to help everyone create a new dynamic group relevant to the gardeners of 2011 and beyond.
This questionnaire relates to the invitation to the new season of the club : www.ardchattan.org.uk/gardenclub2011AGM.pdf
Growing our own food, being more self sufficient and wasting less of our resources is increasingly important.
The garden group gives us a chance to learn from each other, and from new people, new skills, and share our experience throughout the population.
The aim is to be far more active, with more opportunities to get together and learn practical skills, relevant to what we are doing throughout the seasons as well as gaining knowledge for future projects.

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* 1. Talks to learn from : which of these would you like?

Butterflies and Moths

Domestic Renewable Energy explained

Gardening fundamentals : garden design

Gardening fundamentals : pests and diseases

Gardening fundamentals : propagation

Gardening fundamentals : soil

Gardening fundamentals : weather

Herbs and Health

making your own Christmas Decorations

Natural Pest Control

Perennial borders in hostile soils

Permaculture

Polytunnel Growing

Preserving your harvest

Pruning Fruit Trees and bushes

Wild Harvest

Woodland wildlife

Please add any suggestions of your own

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* 2. Which of the following practical workshops are you interested in?

Building sheds

Butterfly surveys

Coppicing

Crafts from the natural world

Dry stane dyking

Fencing

Field walking for local archaeology

Foraging for Mushrooms

Keeping Bees

Keeping Domestic Poultry Keeping

Preserving the harvest

Pruning Fruit Bushes and Trees

Please add any other ideas

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* 3. What other activities are you interested in?

sharing and trading seeds, seedlings, plants.

having local allotments / shared growing spaces.

helping in other people's gardens to grow more.

helping out with each others projects.

creating and managing hedgerows.

developing wildlife areas.

working on local interpretation on the sustrans route through Ardchattan

learning local bushcraft.

please offer other suggestions, or expand on how you think these can work

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* 4. Would you like to visit any of the following this year?

Lochaber Community Composting

Growing Green, Seil - vegetable producer

Barfadda Organics, Ardfern - vegetable producers

Bute Community Gardens

Islay Community Gardens

Glengorm Gardens - vegetable producer

Please suggest other places

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* 5. Did you have a surplus of fruit and vegetables last year?

Yes - and I would really like to be able to share my surplus with others

Yes - and I would like to sell to friends and neighbours

Yes - and I would like to work with others to sell my surplus at the LORN market

No - but I would like to be able to benefit from the surplus of others in the area.

No - and I am not interested in other people's produce.

any other comments

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* 6. Are you interested in a project to create allotments in Ardchattan for the use of the community ?

Yes - very, please tell me how I can help make this happen.

Yes - but cannot help with setting it up.

Maybe - will see how it all goes.

No - I am not interested, thank you.

Please share your ideas for this project, especially potential locations in any forest areas locally.

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* 7. Which day and time of day is best for you for talks and activities?
We will aim to have a variety of types of events, some will be daytime and others evenings.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

First week of the month

Second week of the month

Third week of the month

Fourth week of the month

any other comments

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* 8. Please leave your details so we can get in touch with you about any meetings, send out information about activities in the area etc.

Name: *

Address 1:

Address 2:

ZIP/Postal Code:

Email Address: *

Phone Number:

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* 1. Talks to learn from : which of these would you like?

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* 2. Which of the following practical workshops are you interested in?

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* 3. What other activities are you interested in?

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* 4. Would you like to visit any of the following this year?

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* 5. Did you have a surplus of fruit and vegetables last year?

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* 6. Are you interested in a project to create allotments in Ardchattan for the use of the community ?

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* 7. Which day and time of day is best for you for talks and activities? We will aim to have a variety of types of events, some will be daytime and others evenings.

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* 8. Please leave your details so we can get in touch with you about any meetings, send out information about activities in the area etc.

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* 9. What else would you like the Garden Club to be doing?

* 7. Which day and time of day is best for you for talks and activities?
We will aim to have a variety of types of events, some will be daytime and others evenings.