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Share your success & failures

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Don't be shy, share your agricultural and diy success stories, and failures, with your plot neighbours.

Swap & Share

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If you've got surplus produce or seeds, see if you can swap and share.

Offers & Discounts

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Exclusive offers and discounts for O.A.T.S. members.

Social Events

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Past, present and future social events.

Committee

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Committee archives and forms.

Useful Links

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Other websites of interest

Tips, tricks and advice

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Need help? Any questions? Any tips, tricks and advice? Share your knowledge and experience with your neighbours.

Recipes & Preserving Food

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Any family recipes you care to share and tips for preserving all that surplus produce.

The Owlsbury Site

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Information regarding the allotment site.

Newsletters

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Library of O.A.T.S. newsletters.

Conservation

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Local conservation organisations and projects.

OATS News :

Sussex Country Gardener

10/05/22

A big thank you to the 'Sussex Country Gardener' garden centre for their support of our community field shelter project.

Please check them out for all your allotment and garden needs ... and more!

Visit Sussex Country Gardener website

Laurel Tree Fruit Farm

02/05/22

Laurel Tree Fruit Farm has kindly donated to our community field shelter project. Check out their excellent fresh local produce. Buy local, support the local economy and help the environment.

Visit Laurel Tree Fruit Farm website

Seed Swap

26/04/22

The seed swap at St Richards Church Hall on 19th Feb was a big success, and well done to all that organised, and thanks to everyone that attended.

The event featured in the latest issue of Kitchen & Garden magazine.

View in OATS forum

Owlsbury Site Compost Area

20/04/22

GREEN COMPOSTABLE WASTE ONLY.

NO PLASTIC, NETTING, BAGS, PLANT TRAYS, POTS, FOOD CONTAINERS, BOTTLES, CARPET, METAL, WOOD PALLETS.

PLEASE TAKE YOUR RUBBISH HOME.

Thank you.

Allotment Garden Newsletter

19/04/22

April Extra 2022

From John Harrison

Slug Pellets - Information

11/04/22

Allotment Garden Newsletter

Article by John Harrison

Notice to all Owlsbury Allotment Tenants

31/03/22

Don't just be an allotment tenant, join the Owlsbury Allotments Tenants Society community. Benefit from various online and local discounts, free public liability insurance, subsidised manure and mushroom compost, and social events.

April Jobs

31/03/22

Things you could be doing in April.

Visit the Allotment & Gardens website for tips on what to do.

Allotment & Gardens Website

Could you volunteer some gardening time?

28/03/22

Most of the primary schools in Crowborough have growing areas where the children can learn where their food comes from. These need help in the form of regular input from gardeners to keep them in shape (especially during school holidays).

Could you offer an hour or two each week to help? For example, this might be to help prepare beds for planting, to advise on suitable plants for growing in different areas, to help plant natural spaces for children to enjoy. In some cases, the children will cook food they have helped to grow. You will not be expected to teach or supervise children and generally the schools will be flexible about when your visits take place.

If you’d like to get involved please contact David Martin at food@greentransitioncrowborough.org.uk.

Side Gate

20/03/22

Please note that the side gate has a temporary padlock and chain until a permanent repair can be made by CTC. The code is the same as the main gates to the car park.

Please lock each time you leave.

OATS Membership

11/03/22

Allotment rents are becoming due on 1st April to Crowborough Town Council. OATS members, please don't forget to renew your OATS membership too.

If you are a new or existing tenant that isn't an OATS member, please join us. You will be more than welcome, and the potential benefits exceed the very modest £5 fee.

Gardening for the Planet - Help Nature Thrive

08/03/22

Saturday 26th March 6:00pm

The Weald Hall - Uckfield Civic Centre

This event for people in Wealden is about what can be done to help the natural environment and biodiversity right now in our own gardens and nearby open spaces. It will inspire action for nature through presentations and discussion. A chance to share and exchange ideas about good practice and motivate us to make changes to protect insects and wildlife in the local habitat.

March Jobs

01/03/22

Things you could be doing in March.

Visit the Allotment & Gardens website for tips on what to do.

Allotment & Gardens Website

Cow Manure - We have more!

18/01/22

There is more manure available to OATS members only. Take this opportunity to get your plot well fertilised this year. Let us know what you take on the form below, and pay after. We are relying on your honesty here. Remember proceeds are ultimately going towards the field shelter and back to members. Let's get that car park cleared!

Field Shelter

18/01/22

An empty plot .. but ground prep has begun, shelter ordered, and delivery scheduled for 26th Feb. Check up on progress here.

Any volunteers to help that weekend for unloading & assembly would be appreciated.

Click here to volunteer

2022 Membership Fees

18/01/22

It has been agreed to keep the membership fee at a very modest £5 per person this year, which includes your Public Liability Insurance If you are able to pay prior to 1st April, you'll really help our Field Shelter cashflow ... and if you can stretch to a small donation, that would be hugely appreciated.

Renew your membership here

Crowborough Town Council

18/01/22

We all owe a big thank you to Crowborough Town Council for their continued support. Their assistance with both the field shelter planning application and grant, and also for the expense & quality of the perimeter fence renewal. Thank you.

Visit CTC website

'Skills for successful growing'

18/01/22

Registration is now open for this Charles Dowding talk on 18th Feb at 7:30pm. It's on 'zoom' and is £5 per person. Register on the Mayfield Horticultural Society website, scroll down on the home page to Upcoming Event, and follow instructions. A zoom link will be sent a few days before the talk.

Click here to visit MHS website

Refuse / Waste Area

18/01/22

Efforts are currently in hand with CTC and the Head Groundsman, to hopefully improve the current waste management, which we consider to have deteriorated, and now be hazardous due to the state of the ground.

Newsletters

18/01/22

We are also intending to provide a minimum of quarterly newsletters to members. If anyone has any requests regarding future content, or suggestions, please let us know.

OATS on Social Media

18/01/22

OATS is on Facebook! Check us out, 'Like' and follow us.

Please remember to also join our members only Facebook Group. It's a quick easy way to keep in touch. You'll find the join button on our Facebook Page.

Visit our Facebook Page

Committee Meetings & AGM

18/01/22

We had a recent Committee Meeting on 6th Jan, our next Committee Meeting is scheduled for 7th March. If anyone has any issues or concerns they think need to be addressed, please let us know.

We have decided to delay our next AGM until May 2023.

See last meeting minutes

'Muckfest'