Month: November 2018

It’s that time of year, and we’re here to help with gift ideas! Thursday 6th December is late night shopping night in Crickhowell, and there will be plenty of craft stalls selling a variety of items. Llangattock Community Woodlands will have a table, stocked with our own honey, beeswax polish, beeswax decorations, wooden plant labels, decorative wooden stars, Christmas cards, and charcoal. 

In other news: this week we started work on siting a wooden bench alongside the ‘Llangattock Redwood’ . The tree came second in the 2017 contest for Wales’ Tree of the Year competition, run by the Woodland Trust. It attracts visitors from far and wide – soon they’ll have somewhere to sit as they look up at this giant!

21st October is a special day in the calendar – the day we rejoice in the apple! As 21st was a Sunday this year we decided to hold our Apple Day celebration on Saturday 20th. After the horrors of last year’s Apple Day storm we behaved ourselves all week and were rewarded with weather more suited to August than October.

 

LACAS had borne the brunt of a badly timed late summer storm and their annual show had been cancelled. They very generously allowed us to pitch up and use their premises, tents, outdoor furniture and barbecue. This definitely contributed to the success of the day; there can’t be a more beautifully situated allotment site in the country. Bob Needs was, of course, the driving force behind our event, supplying not only his own macerator and apple presses but plenty of spare juice containers.

The day was very successful, with plenty of people turning up to have their own apple juice pressed, see the bees in the observation hive and to enjoy some delicious Cashell’s sausages.

Some of the Llangattock Community Woodlands products were for sale: honey, apple marmalade, Christmas cards and decorations, and charcoal made in the woodland.

As always our volunteers worked hard to ensure that everything ran smoothly. We’re all looking forward to next year’s party and hope to see even more people there.