News

June 2008

Greetings to all our lovely friends and customers…….

It appears that we are only the second most funky B&B…(much to Neil’s relief!)

Gill and Fran attended a really fancy do in London and had to wait for the ceremony itself before we knew the winner… it was as exciting as the Oscars.
Thanks to all who sent through good wishes.

June is here and so far it has been a brilliant ‘growing year’. Everything in the gardens is looking splendid, and with all the extra attention and TLC from Claire as well as Neil this year, we have super quality, quantity and variety of crops.

The new raised beds are nearly finished and the gardens are looking better than ever before. We have, after much struggling in a rather strong wind, constructed the brassica shelter, which prevents all the cabbage family plants being attacked by root fly and the dreaded cabbage white butterfly and which will stay on now for the whole summer.

At present we have lots of poultry on the holding, as I write there are 30 home reared young chicken between 8 and 11 weeks old (with another batch due about mid July), our 8 laying girls, Chanticleer the Cockerel, 6 young ducklings and 3 magnificent geese (Don’t mention Christmas!)

We have been having a really busy June and are pretty full for the rest of the month, with excellent early bookings for July as well. So if you are thinking about a visit do contact me soon to ensure the dates and rooms you would like are still available.

Remember also that the off season rates apply again from the 7th September 2008 and there should still be lots of lovely warm weather to enjoy before the end of October, as well as an abundance of good things from the gardens.

Claire, our wonderful assistant, has started her Soil Association Organic aprenticeship and is loving it! We are very proud that she is so committed, being one of only six on this, the first such course that the SA has run, and travelling all the way to Cirencester for the residential weekends, which are part of the training.

We are also proud to announce that we have been accepted as a customer by the ethical bank Triodos and are currently in the processing of refinancing with them.

ACTIVITY BREAKS

We are hoping to introduce some residential activity breaks at Bangors this year, giving our guests an opportunity to get some hands on experience in
growing, bread making, cooking etc so do look out for these very soon.

If you have any other suggestions do contact me.

THE HOUSE

We are delighted that we are now using only 100% renewable energy at Bangors Organic, with a combination of solar hot water, totally green electric from Good Energy, and wood fires, our carbon footprint is practically nil. This costs a little more but we hope that you agree has to be the right way forward.

We have made further improvements over the winter to the Coach House and Stables suites including a 6 foot linked bed in the Coach house suite, some beautiful original artwork and better sound insulation in the bedrooms.

We are looking forward to seeing you ALL very soon

NEIL, GILL, FRAN, CLAIRE, STRUHDEL & DUSTY.