Directions to our house for seed swap on Sunday

[juliew...@aol.com]

For anyone who can make it to the seed swap on Sunday, here are directions which should make it easy to find us. Just to remind you all, this years seed swap and share will be on Sunday 18th March at our house. We can have a flexible drop-in day if you like say from 12.00 til 5.00ish and there will be soup and rolls to help yourself to. Don't let not having anything to share put you off coming, there might be something you need.

All the best, Julie and Gordon.

 

 

Directions to our house (AB45 2HX if you want to use google maps or have sat nav)

 

Coming from Huntly. (Twelve and a half miles);

At the island on the A96, head for Aberdeen.
Less than 1 mile along the road there is a Turning for Banff on your left (just past the petrol station)
Take this road and continue for 8 or 9 miles until you see the turning for Cornhill on your left.
Take this road and continue along it until just past the turning to Ordiquhill - roughly 3 miles.
(do not take this turning, I'm just giving you a landmark)
Slow down when you see the Ordiquhill turning as you are only a 100 yards or so from our road end.
We are on the right hand side. There is a sign for 'Reidside croft' at the road end and several wheely/recycing bins at the road end too.
We are 1/3 mile down this track and there are large black gates with 'North Finnygaud Steading' on a sign.
 

Coming from Turriff.(Twelve miles);

Take the road to Aberchirder and follow it all the way to the end.
Turn left and you can either follow the road until you see a turning signposted Cornhill on the right (about 1/2 mile), or cut through the village and follow the road to the end, then turn right. Either way this will take you to the same road.
Follow this road to the end and turn right again.
Continue for about a mile and a half until just past the turning to Ordiquhill.
Slow down when you see the Ordiquhill turning as you are only a 100 yards or so from our road end.
We are on the right hand side. There is a sign for 'Reidside croft' at the road end and several wheely/recycing bins at the road end too.
We are 1/3 mile down this track and there are large black gates with 'North Finnygaud Steading' on a sign.
 

Coming from Banff.(Ten and a half miles);

Take the main 'A'road out in the direction of cullen
Around five miles along this road  there is a turning to Keith on the left.
Take this road and follow it into Cornhill.
At the crossroads in Cornhill(next to the 'Gordon arms'), take a left turn for Aberchirder.
Exactly one and a half miles along this road is our road end, on the left.
There is a sign for 'Reidside croft' at the road end and several wheely/recycing bins at the road end too. If you reach the turning for Ordiquhill you have overshot.
We are 1/3 mile down this track and there are large black gates with 'North Finnygaud Steading' on a sign.
  

Coming from Keith (13 miles)

Take the road to Banff which is opposite the main shopping street in Keith and follow it  to Cornhill.
Follow the directions from cornhill given above,

[Emma Chapman]

Hi Julie,

So sorry I couldn't make it yesterday. I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days with my parents; came back on the train from Northumberland on Saturday, with a bag full of sprouting comfrey to plant, 1001 other things to do, and feeling pretty travelled out. Hope you had a very good day.

Emma xx

[Emma Chapman]

Oops, sorry list people! You probably didn't all need to know about my lovely comfrey plants, gorgeous tho' they are :-)  Hope a few of you got along to the seed swap.

Emma

[juliew...@aol.com]

Glad you had a break Emma and a chance to touch base with your folks, it's important isn't it :)

Thankyou to everyone who made it on the day, it was good to catch up and so on. We hadn't seen Jake for years so that was a nice surprise too.

We were thinking about a plant swap in May perhaps, everything will be greened up by then too. It will also give us the impetus to get cracking so that there is some progress to show everyone as we are making a few changes this year, thinking of better ways to arrange the veg plot using better techniques etc, hopefully including a pig or two and some bees. I'll try and give everyone a bit more notice too......and make an extra chocolate cake - it only just went round but it went down well :D

Julie

[Simon Gall]

Hi

Would anyone be interested in doing a plant identification workshop now that it Spring? I know a little but I'm sure there are people involved here who know much more than I do. I think it'd be quite useful.

Simon

[juliew...@aol.com]

Hi simon, possibly, what did you have in mind? Depends on distance and date for us but it's a nice idea.

Julie

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