David Hare-Scott wrote:
> HOGS meetings are at organic growing establishments all around the
Hunter.
> Some are private homes on a small block, some are mixed farms, orchards,
worm
> farms, deer farms etc. The Island is a kind of home base where we go to
do
> things appropriate to most gardens, like make compost, prune fruit
trees, make
> new gardens.
>
> We assemble at noon and have lunch together (BYO). The meeting starts
at 1PM,
> we have afternoon tea about 3 and it breaks up about 4-4:30. Bring
surplus
> produce, if you have any, to share or swap.
>
> To get the next meeting at the City Farm, turn on to Ash island bridge
on the
> Hunter, from the New England Highway at Sandgate (near MacDonalds).
Follow a
> twisty road across the island for a few kms, there will be "HOGS" signs
to
> guide you.
>
> They are a friendly bunch who don't mind beginners and they will answer
all
> your questions. Anybody can turn up at meetings but if you join you
also get
> a quarterly magazine, the use of the library etc.
>
> David
>
>
>
Thanks, David. Dunno whether we'll make this meeting (Scouting
commitments are nearly every weekend at the moment), but maybe another
one?
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Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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