Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Taynton Squash perry pear blossom in the National Fruit Collections
The new arrangements for the management of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale came into operation today. On 1 April the curatorship of the National Fruit Collections under the Defra contract passed to the University of Reading and responsibility for their day to day [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
As visitors to Fruit Forum will know Defra has decided that the National Fruit Collections will remain at Brogdale. Defra awarded the management contract for the Collections from April 2008 to the University of Reading, who will work in partnership with FAST (Farm Advisory Service Team) now based at Brogdale and Brogdale Collections, the [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Friends of the Brogdale Horticultural Trust may be interested to read the article in today’s issue of the Daily Telegraph - Saturday 12 January - in the Gardening Section. You can read it on line at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main.jhtml;jsessionid=J13GGA0IPTVOHQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/gardening/2008/01/11/garden-fruit-collection111.xml&page=1
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Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the very last issue of Fruit News to be published I wrote ‘… if the Trust did indeed lose control of the Collections, it would, so far as I can see, leave the Friends [of Brogdale Horticultural Trust] in limbo - for we would have no connection with the new controller of the Collections, [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on December 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It is very good news indeed that the National Fruit Collections are to remain at Brogdale. Thank you all so much for your support in the campaign to keep the Collections in their established home. Thank you for the letters you wrote to Defra, to your MPs and to Lord Rooker, your signatures to our [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on December 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Defra announced today, 19 December, that the National Fruit Collections will remain at Brogdale for the foreseeable future. The contract for their management has been awarded to the University of Reading, which will take over their maintenance and curation from April 2008.
In the press release from Defra, Lord Rooker has said ‘The long term [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
At a meeting of the Kent County Council Cabinet on Monday, 17 December, the future of the National Fruit Collections was discussed.
As a result Councillor and cabinet member, Roger Gough, has written to Lord Rooker and Defra in a letter which ’represents Kent County Council’s official position and supersedes any previous communication’, referring, one presumes, [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, 12 December, Kent County Council Scrutiny Committee unanimously agreed that they would write to the Defra Minister in support of retaining the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale. They also agreed to refer the matter back to KCC Cabinet as a matter of urgency in the hope that Cabinet would also support the retention [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on December 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A decision is anticipated by the end of the year from Defra on the National Fruit Collections and Brogdale: that is whether the Collections will remain at Brogdale or be moved elsewhere and who will be their managers in the future. We understand that there are five bidders for this Defra tender - three who [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Readers of Fruit Forum will know of the legacy of nearly £400,000 received by the Brogdale Horticultural Trust sometime between 1 March 2006 and 28 February 2007 and bequeathed by a Friend (see below).
Today’s Faversham News (15 November) has published the following comments on this legacy made by the Trust’s chief executive:
‘Lady Jane Garrett expressed [...]
