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‘For and about the people of Berkeley’ No. 293 March 2020

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Canon Park Development Consultation

Berkeley Town Council has a new committee who are working on exciting plans to develop Canon Park Recreational Ground. On the back pages of the Berkeley Flyer you will find a survey, please take a few minutes to complete it as we are trying to reach as many residents as possible to see what you want in your Town.

This consultation will run from 1st March to 22

nd March. There are a range of

ways to take part:

• Visit one of our consultation events

The images on the back page will be available in a larger format at these events and you will get a chance to talk to the Councillors and some of the Berkeley Vale Youth Forum who have helped put the survey together

• Participate in our online survey on our website www.berkeley-tc.gov.uk

• Complete the paper based survey which is available in the Berkeley Flyer

• Submit your comments to the Town Clerk in the Town Hall by post, in

person or by email to [email protected]

Consultation Event Dates:

Canon Park Pavilion

Saturday 7th

March

12-4pm

Town Hall

Saturday 14th

March

9am-12noon

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THE SKYLARKS CHOIR

invite you to a TEA PARTY in Berkeley Town Hall on

Sunday 5th April at 3.00 pm

Admission by ticket only £5.00 pp available at Berkeley Pharmacy from

1st March

Teas, delicious cakes, a raffle

AND FABULOUS SINGING

Volunteer Open Days Come along to an open day on Wednesday 4 or Saturday 7

March, from 1-4pm, to find out about volunteering opportunities at Slimbridge Wetland Centre.

This year we’re recruiting for visitor engagement roles, from welcoming visitors to leading tours, and the open days will provide

a chance to find out more about these roles.

You can also join an introductory guided walk, or attend a talk on our Slimbridge 2020 project, and there’ll be staff and volunteers on hand to answer your questions. There’s no need to book, just turn

up on the day. If you can’t make it, or you’d like to know more please contact the volunteering team at [email protected]

Volunteering at Slimbridge Whether you’re looking to meet new people, learn new skills or

spend time in an inspiring environment, there’s a volunteer role for you at Slimbridge Wetland Centre. Just a few hours spent volun-

teering can make a world of difference.

THORNBURY AND DISTRICT U3A

THORNBURY AND DISTRICT U3A has nearly 1,800 members and around 90 different interest groups meeting at various venues

throughout the area but there is always room for more! The groups mainly meet during the day and interest range from Archaeology to Walking with all subjects in-between. Some meet weekly, other less

often and they include physical activities, crafts, board and card games, organised visits to gardens and churches, concerts and theatre as well as purely “educational” topics. Details of all our groups, including Group Leader contact details, venue and times of meeting, can be found on our

website – www.thornburyu3a.org.uk.

Our next Welcome Meeting will be held on Monday 20 April at 3:30 p.m. in St Mary’s Church Hall, Eastbury Road, Thornbury, BS35 1DR. Please

come along; we would love to meet you.

For further information visit our website or phone our Membership

Secretary, Jackie Gitsham on 858438 or our Chairman, Norman Taylor

on 418396.

World Day of Prayer

Service.

As "Churches Together in Berkeley” we invite you to

attend the International World Day of Prayer Service at

Berkeley Union Church, on Friday 6th March at 10am.

This year the Service entitled “Rise! Take Your Mat and

Walk” has been prepared by the Christian women of

Zimbabwe and will be celebrated in over 170 countries

world wide.

Please join us, tea, coffee & cakes will be served after the

service.




For a regular entry in the What’s On Diary please email [email protected] before 15th of the month

Berkeley Community Library 10.30am - 4.30pm

Berkeley Rainbows The Scout Hut 4.15 - 5.30pm

FitFix Exercise - St Dominics Hall 9.30am with Sam 07793 755240 Fat burning & toning for all

Friday

Extend Exercise Classes for 60+ Scout Hut From 10.30am Contact Barbara 01453 766421

Bingo - Sharpness Village Hall from 7.30pm contact Jimmy Thomas 01453 811339

Coffee Morning Union Church Schoolroom 10.00 – 11.00am

Art Group Berkeley Library . £3.00 per session 10.00am—1pm. Bring own materials

NatWest Mobile Bank Salter Street 10.15am -12.30 pm

Beavers Scouts for 6 to 8 years old Scout HQ, Park View, 4.30pm - 5.30pm

Berkeley Brownies The Scout Hut 6.00pm - 7.30pm

New Berkeley Harriers Running Club 6.30pm at Canon Park Pavilion

Berkeley Players

Meet in the Town Hall

From 7pm—8.30 Young People

From 8.30 Adults

Thursday

Berkeley Community Library 9.30am - 12.30pm

Coffee Morning Every 2nd Saturday of the month 10.00 - 11.30 at The Evangelical Church

Physio-Led Modified Pilates Class

Town Hall— Advance Booking essential

Contact Miranda 07813513516

10am -11am

Craft Club - Berkeley Arms Last Wednesday of the month. 10.30am - 1.30pm. All welcome

Dog Training - Sharpness Village Hall from 7pm contact Mike Vine 01453 822134

Berkeley Under 5’s Town Hall Toddlers - 9.30am - 11.30am

P3 Community Based Drop In Town Hall, 10am - 12pm

Citizens Advice Bureau Town Hall, 1pm - 3pm

Berkeley Youth Club Canon Park Pavilion 6pm - 8pm

Berkeley Gardening Club 3rd Wednesday of the month Library 7.30pm

Past-Times Café Marybrook Medical Centre Chat, Crafts, and tea. 2.00pm

FitFix Exercise - Stinchcombe Village Hall 6.30pm with Sam 07793 755240 Fat burning & toning for all

Alcoholics Anonymous Berkeley Steps Town hall, 7.30pm - 8.30pm, Town Hall

Town Council Meeting 3rd Monday of the month 7.30pm

Stay & Play Kids - Sharpness Village Hall 9.45am - 12 noon contact Sue Boxall on 07526101287

Youth Club - Sharpness Village Hall 6.30pm - 8.30pm contact Darren Brown on 07799067237

Beavers/Scouts Scout HQ., Park View Scouts 10½ to 14 years old 7.00pm - 8.30pm

FitFix Exercise - Stinchcombe Village Hall 6.30pm with Sam 07793 755240 Fat burning & toning for all

Physio-Led Modified Pilates Class

Town Hall— Advance Booking essential

Contact Miranda 07813513516

Monday's 10am -11am , 11.15am—12.15am & 7.15pm-8.15pm

Monday

Community Bank - Town Hall, Tuesdays 9.15am - 11am

Poetry Circle: 1st Tuesday of the month 2-3pm at Berkeley Library. Informal group for reading, writing and enjoying poetry. Bring your favourites along

Town Planning & Finance Meetings 2nd Tuesday of the month 7.30pm

Berkeley Community Library Tuesdays 10.30am - 4.30pm Telephone 810520

Line Dancing/Ballroom Dance Class Hamfields Leisure 7.00pm - 9.00pm Contact Daphne 01453 826034

Skylarks Community Choir Town Hall, 7.10 - 9pm Term Time only. All welcome

Cub Scouts - Scout HQ. Park View 8 to 10½ years old 6.00pm - 7.30pm

FitFix Exercise - Cam Memorial Hall 9.45am - 10.45am

Crochet Group - Berkeley Library 11.00am. £1 per session. Everyone is welcome. Just bring a crochet hook and some wool.

Berkeley Walking Group

Meet 10.a.m. The Library Car Park. (Free) Coffee

optional afterwards in The Library.

Coffee Morning Sharpness Village Hall 10.30 - 12pm Call Christy 07970 565099

Free Legal Sessions 1st Tuesday of month, Coventry Building Society

Thornbury Macular & Low Vision Support

Group 1st Tuesday of month, 10.30am to 12.30pm

Methodist Church Hall, Castle Court, Thornbury

Tuesday

Wednesday

Saturday

Sunday

Roman Catholic Mass Sundays 8.30am, 10.30am St Dominic RC Church, Kingshill, Dursley

Berkeley Union Church Salter Street, Berkeley. (Next to Town Hall) Sunday Services 10.00am -11.00am Coffee, Tea and biscuits to follow

St Mary’s Church

1st March

9.30 a.m. Morning Prayer

11 a.m. Messy Church

6 p.m. BCP Communion

8th March

9.30 Choral Communion

15th March

11.00 Whole Parish Communion

6 p.m. Evening Prayer or Choral Evensong

22nd March

9.30 Choral Communion

11.00 All Age Worship

29th March

11.00 Benefice Communion at Hill Church

FOOD BANK

A food bank can now be found at St. Mary's Church

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MARCH IN THE GARDEN

March is the month when Spring has just

begun and it is one of the most exciting

seasons in the garden when all the signs

of new life poke through the soil and the

fresh smell of earth is all around us. There

is the hope of warm Summer days to come

but there is still the threat of Winter chill

still lingering on. There is Spring colour

everywhere from nodding Daffodils,

swaying Catkins, gentle scent of primroses

and the peppery sweet perfume of Violas.

The ever lengthening days give us more

time to spend in the garden and we will

need it as there is plenty to be done. I have

been able to spread mulch of farmyard

manure on all the beds and borders but

there is another type of mulch that can be

put around Alpines. If you have a small

rock garden or even an old stone trough

the soil in it can be lightly forked over and

a top dressing of gravel or stone chippings

can be tucked around the rosettes of

foliage and around the necks of small

plants. This improves the drainage and

makes the area look attractive. It also

stops splash back when it rains which can

make the plants foliage rot.

Early potatoes can be planted from mid

March onwards depending on the weather.

The space between them should be 30cm

and 60cm between the rows. Plant them

along a 10-15cm deep trench Cover them

with soil and water them if it was dry when

the foliage starts to grow. You should be

able to dig them up for eating in June.

If you have Dahlia tubers in your

greenhouse or garden shed that you have

dug up from your garden in the Autumn

and have put them into containers with dry

compost – now is the time to check that

they are healthy, firm to the touch and if so

you can start them into active growth.

Water them at first as this will encourage

them to shoot. If you want to increase the

number of plants you can take basal

cuttings. Choose firm strong shoots about

10cm long and with a clean sharp knife cut

as close as possible to where the shoots

emerge from the tuber, trim just below a

pair of leaves to where the stem is solid.

Remove all lower leaves so that there are

just a pair of leaves at the top. Dip the

base of the cutting into rooting compound

and insert them individually into 5cm (2in)

deep pots or into cell trays of multi purpose

compost. Keep the cutting moist but never

over water. They can be placed in a

propagator or you can cover each pot with

a clear polythene bag and place in a warm

bright spot but not in direct sunlight. They

will root in about two to three weeks.

Outside the garden the temperature should

be rising so be on the look out for slugs

and snails which love to feed on young

shoots and young transplants. Most at risk

are Lettuce, Hostas, Delphiniums, Dahlia,

Sweet Pea, Peas, Beans, and Lobelia

cardinalis. There are a number of simple

techniques and products that can be used

to help with the problem. You can encircle

seedlings or young plants with grit as a

barrier, you can remove them by hand,

there are beer traps or copper strips that

can be put round a plant pot – the slugs

and snails do not like to cross over copper.

There are biological controls that can be

used – you can purchase nematodes.

These are microscopic worms which are

specific parasites of slugs. The nematodes

are watered into the soil when the

temperature is above 5C. They will seek

out the slugs and infect them. There are

also pesticides available to control slugs

and snails which come in pellet form and

can be effective when used sparingly – so

the best of luck with these pests!

There are a wide range of vegetable crops

that can be sown this month under cover in

a greenhouse. These include Lettuce,

Peas, Carrots, Beans and Peppers as well

as annual herbs and annual flowers. There

is still time to divide clumps of herbaceous

plants this month and to prune your roses

into good shape. If you have permanent

plants in containers now is the time to top

dress them. Remove the top 50cm (2in) of

old compost and replace it with new. You

can mix into this slow release fertilizer

granules that will help to feed the shrub or

plant for up to six months. The list of jobs

goes on and there never seems to be

enough time in the day, but do take time to

look at the wonders of Spring and enjoy

the many bulbs you have planted and the

sweet scents of flowering shrubs such as

Choisia ternata, Daphne and Mahonia all

with their heady aromas. Stop and stare at

their beauty. I will leave you to enjoy your

garden until next month.

Ann Legg

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New Berkeley Green parkrun passes the test

A fusion between the local running community and the core team resulted in the first Berkeley Green parkrun (Saturday 1 February) on

the site of a former nuclear power station. Adam Holland was amongst the attendees who gave the fast course a thorough examination.

SGS Berkeley Green UTC was the venue for this inaugural parkrun on a dry and bright morning with 274 runners taking part, ably

assisted by 36 volunteers. The hard work and commitment of Ian Cole and others reaped rewards with a mass of praise for the

organisation, speedy course and the historic location.

The Berkeley Green campus is part of South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS) and home to a cutting edge Science and

Technology Park, built to educate engineers of the future. This multi-million pound development occupies the space of the

decommissioned Berkeley nuclear power station nuclear power station. The campus also houses Bloodhound LSR – a project with the

goal of breaking the land speed record.

There were some speedy performances on Saturday morning not least by Adam ‘Tango’ Holland of Tavistock AC. Adam put the flat, two

lap route through its paces, racing along on fast tarmac paths around the campus. He and the others was guided by cheerful marshals

as they battled a headwind and finished outside the entrance to the college canteen.

Adam was the first man across the

line in 16:01. Tracy Hinxman of

Derby AC was the first lady in

18:28.

The organisers hope their first

event will trigger a chain reaction

or in the words of Ian Cole: “Let’s

do it all again next Saturday and

the Saturday after and every

Saturday – forever!”

If any local groups or people

raising money for charities are

interested in booking a Saturday

morning to do the refreshments at

the Berkeley Green Parkrun

please contact Pauline Craig on

01453 811021 or email

[email protected] for

information and booking.

Image courtesy of Ruby Cole




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At Oldminster Sidings, following on from the

removal of the last stumps, attention has

turned to clearing the actual track bed so

that the condition of the various sidings can

be assessed. Initial indications are that

Road 1 is in the best condition, so we are

starting complete clearance of this one with

the intention that this will be our first

running line. The bird life is flourishing there

too, so we have installed some nest boxes

to encourage the birds, as well as keeping

feeders topped up.

We are expecting that a full 99-year lease

will soon be granted by Network Rail. This

will enable us to start renovating the track

and point work, and to put a secure fence

around the site so that we can start moving

in stock and running trains along the

sidings. One of our members is currently

restoring an ex-GWR carriage at the Long

Marston storage facility, and it is anticipated

that this will move to Sharpness once we

have a secure site.

January’s talk and presentation by Alan

Price was entitled “The Didcot Story”. It

showed the Great Western Society’s

marvellous collection of beautifully restored

ex-GWR locomotives. Alan joined the Great

Western Society many years ago and was

instrumental in saving at least one

locomotive and bringing it to the Didcot

Railway Centre. This talk was about his

various experiences over the years and

provided a great insight into one of our

most cherished railway heritage centres

Our own diesel shunter D2069 is expected

to return from Carmarthen to the Dean

Forest Railway. Currently she is still running

on the Gwili railway near Carmarthen.

We have for some time been negotiating

with Network Rail to rescue as much as

possible of 4 signal boxes between Newark

& Nottingham. These boxes are very close

in pattern to the one originally at Sharpness

South - so the more we rescue, the better

for our railway's provenance. Over the

Summer a 4-day possession will be granted

by NR to remove as much as we can in the

time. We will be sending a VoBR team to

help with stripping and dismantling the

boxes. It is vital that heritage items such as

these are acquired when they become

available as they are disappearing fast and

are irreplaceable.

The February talk was a special one by

well-known local transport expert. Richard

Kelsey. Richard has been given some

fabulous photos from the collection of the

late Derek Markey. Derek was signalman at

Berkeley Road and took photos of workings

onto and off our branch over the years. It

was held on Wednesday February 19th in

the Berkeley Arms in Berkeley.

The March social evening will be a film

show for a change. The main feature is a

film about the SS Great Britain. Some of it

is about the construction and working life of

this iconic vessel, but the main part is about

how a dedicated team rescued her from a

windswept bay in the Falkland Islands, and

towed her back across the Atlantic to her

home port of Bristol. This includes actual

film of the recovery. It will be held on

Wednesday March 18th in the Berkeley

Arms in Berkeley from 7:30. Admission is

free, and non-members are welcome.

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Covering the period 29th January through

until 20th February, again Berkeley Town

has remained relatively crime free although there were two

recent crimes just outside of the town to mention.

On the 29th January around 02:00 a business premises on the

B4066 was broken into. Offenders cut through a padlocked

gate and then drove a vehicle through glazed doors to gain

access to the business where a large number of high value

Stihl gardening tools were stolen. We believe that the total loss

at retail value runs into the £10,000 range.

Police are continuing with enquiries and ask you to call us on

101 if you are approached by persons trying to sell ‘new’

gardening equipment.

On the 4th February an isolated detached property was broken

into in the Purton area during daytime.

Offenders gained entry into the property by smashing French

doors with an item taken from an insecure garage. Once inside

offenders have stolen jewellery to the value of £10,000 along

with a small amount of cash.

Again, Police are continuing with enquiries and should you

have any information which may assist the ongoing

investigation, then please contact us on 101.

There are also two reoccurring incidents, one is a telephone

scam where persons are receiving calls from persons claiming

to be from HMRC and that a large amount of unpaid tax needs

to be settled. The phone calls attempt to gain your personal

information such as bank account details. Whilst alarming,

please ignore such calls and simply put the phone down.

Neighbouring locations have also been hit with ‘Nottingham

Knockers’, these are usually men who have recently been

released from prison and get recruited to go door to door

selling cleaning products at inflated prices. They can also been

quite aggressive if nothing is purchased. At

the time of writing Berkeley hasn’t been a target location,

however, this could change. Please call us on 101 if you get

such a visit.

[email protected]

07811292900 (not for incident reporting).

[email protected]

07813349225 (not for incident reporting).

Continued from page 6

Refreshments are available from the bar.

Please note that this is on a Wednesday

rather than our usual Thursday date.

One of our members has also started up a

scrap metal recycling scheme to raise

funds. To date over £4000 has been raised.

If you have any metal or old batteries which

you need to get rid of, then please get in

touch as this is proving a valuable fund-

raising option.

We now have a superbly equipped machine

shop capable of machining anything from

very large components down to tiny

precision engineered parts. Word is starting

to get around about this facility and we

have done some very varied jobs for

external bodies, as well as replacing

components on our own vehicles. With all

the machinery we now have, we are able to

offer engineering services such as turning

(up to 40 inch diameter), gear cutting and

surface grinding, so if anyone has a

complex machining requirement please get

in touch with the machine shop in the

engine shed at Sharpness Dock.

If anyone would like to see what we are up

to, we are at the engine shed in Sharpness

Dock and at Oldminster Sidings on

Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and

at Berkeley station on Wednesdays, and

would be glad to show you around.

You can also become a ‘Friend of Berkeley

Station’ by joining the Facebook group of

that name and helping us to start the

process of giving Berkeley back its station.

This also contains pictures of the various

activities.

Email: [email protected]




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Regular Workshop Places Available Next

Term

We have sadly said goodbye to some of

our regulars at the end of this term, but it

does mean we can offer some spaces to

those of you who have been waiting

patiently! The session we have spaces on

is:

Tuesday afternoons 1pm - 3pm 2 spaces

The term starts w/c 24th February 2020

and will last for 6 weeks, costing £60 plus

materials. These are allocated on a first

come first served basis, please contact us

to book your space!

Mosaic Mondays

Our occasional 2 hour Monday

sessions are perfect for those who can't

commit to or waiting for a space on our

regular sessions, or for those who want

help starting a project to then finish at

home. All skill levels welcome. We

currently have spaces on:

- Monday 18th May (am and pm)

- Monday 8th June (am and pm)

Morning sessions 10 am to 12 pm,

afternoons 1 pm to 3 pm. £15 per session.

Booking essential, please contact us to

book.

Other workshop opportunities...

Our mosaic pendant workshop is fully

booked, but we do have places available

on:

ONE DAY WORKSHOP

Saturday 23rd May 2020

Spend a relaxing day making a mosaic to a

design of your choice. This workshop is

suitable for all abilities and

experience. £65 including all materials and

refreshments (excludes lunch). 10 am -

4.30 pm.

For more details or to book any of our

workshops, please contact us.

Berkeley Forum

Berkeley Climate Action Group

Following our workshop in November we now have a larger group

of people all keen to contribute towards helping the district

become more carbon neutral.

At our first meeting we altered our name to Berkeley Vale Climate

Action Network (BVCAN) to make it similar to the names of other

groups in the Stroud area.

BVCAN hopes to help local people become more informed about

climate change and what can be done by individuals, communities

and businesses. On a more practical level, we want to help people

make changes to reduce their own carbon footprint.

To do this, we want to know what you think the priorities are for

this area. We're hoping to establish an email mailing list to let you

know about the latest news, events and climate action projects

occurring both locally and in the wider district and to find out your

opinions.

If you want to be included on our emailing list please look out for

next month's Flyer when more details will be given.

Jane Robertson

Hi just to introduce myself. I’m Robert Jones I run a Mens Shed,

we have recently relocated into Berkeley. Since moving here we

have attracted more members, this without advertising shows it’s

much needed.

Our main focus is recycling wood into useful items, recycling

prosthetic limbs for Legs4Africa. With new members coming and

joining us this is creating more interests, with models and model

Railways being amongst them, which is good. Expanding into the

SGS site will give us more room and integration into the

community activities offered.

If this is of interest to your Berkeley flyer we would welcome a visit,

get the word out.

I would point out that the title of Mens Shed is a title not a

restriction and we would welcome a ladies interested in diy...

Look forward to hearing from you

Kind regards

Robert

07980784486

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The February meeting was as always held

on the second Thursday of the month

(February13th) in the Town Hall. The

meeting is deliberately held in the evening

enabling working women to attend. We

welcome any ladies who wish to visit with

no expectation other than to find out a bit

more as to how The WI works as a national,

county and local organisation and to enjoy

the company of the other Berkeley WI

members. For anyone new to Berkeley it is

a great way to meet other residents.

The meeting began promptly. Further to the

previous meeting many donations of

toiletries for The Happy Handbags project

were received and the collection continues

until after the next meeting (March 12th).

For anyone who is not a WI member who

would like to support the initiative by

donating unwanted new toiletries please

contact Ellie Gent (01453 811938). Happy

Handbags is a charity that provides a

handbag filled with toiletries to women

experiencing hardship/ homelessness.

Please clear out those cupboards ladies.

The business part of the evening was

swiftly completed.

The book group, craft group and skittles

practice continue every month.

Looking ahead 2021 is the centenary of

Berkeley WI and in true fashion the current

members intend to celebrate with all past

members. Thus far a summer garden party

is planned as well as a walk through our

glorious countryside with a pub lunch. More

plans and ideas to follow. The actual

inception date of Berkeley WI was

December 8th 1921.

GFWI - having celebrated 100 years of the

Gloucestershire Federation of WIs through

2019 the major project for 2020 is running

the 3 WI Marquees at The Royal Three

Counties Show in June. The roots of the WI

lie in bringing rural women together in their

villages supporting the agricultural economy

so the show is a celebration of that very

rural WI heritage.

There continue to be countywide WI

activities - walks, handicrafts, public affairs,

and on the 13th March members of the WI

racing club will be at The Cheltenham Gold

Cup.

The meeting closed and the assembled

group went on a wonderful photographic

year on a dairy farm.

Our speaker was Richard Cornock a dairy

farmer from Tytherington. Several of the

attendees at the meeting grew up on dairy

farms and some married into dairy farming.

Richard was from the off witty, entertaining,

down to earth and hugely self deprecating -

I am not a writer says someone who has

written monthly columns in several rural/

agricultural publications. I am not a

photographer but has had a book of

photographs published. YouTube - The

Funky Farmer has thousands of followers. I

am not a speaker but has had regular slots

on Radio Bristol - anyone remember Get off

my land? That was Rich Cornock in

conversation. There's even an award

winning sausage called Bristol Blue that

was part of Get off my land the name being

chosen by the Radio Bristol listeners.

Despite all these media successes Rich is

passionate in his role as dairy farmer with

his brother on the family farm that has seen

generations of Cornocks farm the same

land from the same farmhouse since 1822.

The acute awareness and responsibility of

managing the integrity of the farmland

shone through the entire talk. Rich has a

ten year Higher Level Stewardship contract

- government sponsored through Natural

England. He is contracted to undertake

evidence based land and hedgerow

management using conservation methods

that promote wildlife, soil quality and true

engagement with the natural world. This

includes promoting wildflower meadows;

managing existent ponds and creating new

ponds; maintaining the old orchards and

planting a new orchard with traditional

varieties; only hedging between November

and February allowing the birds to nest and

flourish.

This amateur photographer bought a small

digital camera popped it into the top pocket

of his overalls everyday for a year and took

photographs of everything happening on

the farm over twelve months.

Dairy farm activities - the herd of 70

Friesian cows that require to be

milked twice daily in the old traditional six

stall milking parlour. The milk is collected

every other day from the on farm bulk tank

which has to be kept at a constant

temperature of below 5 degrees. The cows

are kept in from November to April being

fed on home grown maize and silage

( pickled grass with a powerful odour!)

The wonderful photographs took us through

a calendar year of farming. It was a delight.

Rich is a true countryman. It was a

wonderful look at the last century of farming

and what smaller farm farming can be

today. Particularly what the stewardship

schemes have meant to one farm in

Tytherington.

Berkeley WI will be going for a visit to

Rich's farm in the summer. He is a

wonderful natural speaker and for any other

groups who have speakers get Richard

Cornock. You won't be disappointed and/

or arrange an evening summer visit.

website www Richardcornock.co.uk

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