SOMERSET ORGANIC GARDENERS

December 2006    *****************      A MESSAGE FROM MARY  ***************************************

Not the usual newsletter this time, just a letter to let you know the situation. If you have attended any of our meetings recently you will know that the Somerset Organic Gardeners have come to a point where our attendance numbers are small and we have failed (despite all our efforts to publicize our meetings) to attract new members.  

Without a chairman, programme secretary, treasurer, key-holder and someone to produce the newsletter your committee felt that perhaps SOG had served its purpose in the past and the time had come to close the group.

 A letter has been sent to the HDRA (now Garden Organic) quarterly magazine for inclusion in the next issue advising organic gardeners in the area that the Taunton group has closed and hoping that a few enthusiastic organic gardeners will get together to see if a group is viable — perhaps in Chard, Wellington or Bridgewater. This is how SOG originally came into being. A letter in the quarterly magazine in 1992 asked if any organic gardeners in the Taunton area were interested in forming a group 

At our last meeting members expressed their regret that the group was closing and felt that they did not want to lose touch altogether, so we may decide to meet informally either by having a meal together or arranging to meet when a local garden is having an open day.  

For now let me wish you all a Happy Christmas and good gardening in 2007 without a slug, snail or aphid in sight!