This photo shows the gate beside the wood chips around mid-day on Thursday. There was no-one around.
Please make sure you shut and lock the gate every time you enter or leave the site.
EWAA Committee
Rent Payment 2021-22
Acknowledging that the Covid pandemic has affected many incomes over the past year, the EWAA Committee has decided not to apply any increase to the plot rents charged for the coming year.
On 4th October, following the plot inspection, the Treasurer will email each plot-holder with details of the rent due, requesting a bank transfer, exactly as last year.
It is therefore essential that we have the correct email address for each plot-holder. If you suspect that EWAA messages do not reach the plot-holder’s mailbox, please send an email to treasurer@ewaa.org.uk as soon as possible.
Anyone not wanting to make a bank transfer will be able to pay online by card (this is new).
All rents must be paid by the end of October.
Drug users in EWAA car parks
Over recent weeks several members have reported their concern at the increasingly regular presence in the EWAA car parks of local drug users, especially around the pile of woodchip outside the gate to the Middle and Howard Street Lanes.
Please contact the police whenever you witness any drug-related behaviour on or around the allotment site:
- Call 999 immediately if there is no doubt what is happening. Police officers will be despatched without delay and anyone found with drugs on them will be charged with an offence.
- If there is a delay because you remember something after the event and think that drug use may have occurred, you should report it to the police on their non-emergency number – 101.
The committee has reported the general pattern of behaviour to the Thames Valley Police, incident number INC-20210922-1228, and both the Community Policing Team and the Oxford Public Spaces Drug Taskforce are taking up the matter. Any one of you can use the TVP website to add further details to the incident www.thamesvalley.police.uk/.
The more reports they receive the more police presence we can expect.
EWAA Committee
Important Dates in the EWAA Calendar
Dear EWAA Members,
The Allotment has a busy weekend in its calendar in the middle of October, so please put these dates in your diary now, and join us in the annual Autumn activities:
SATURDAY 16th OCTOBER
Work Party
Various locations and tasks across the site
10:00~12:00
Apple Juicing
Under gazebos outside the Shop
Bring clean bottles with a lid, your surplus harvest, and any windfalls
14:00~16:00
SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER
Work Party
Various locations and tasks across the site
10:00~12:00
EWAA Annual General Meeting
Under gazebos outside the Shop
12:00~13:00
Details of each separate event will follow soon, and notices will go up on the gates.
We’re really looking forward to seeing you over that weekend, and to welcoming new members who have yet to experience the harvest season at the East Ward site!
EWAA Committee
Autumn Plot Inspection
The next inspection of plots takes place on October 2nd & 3rd.
With the high demand for allotments at the East Ward site we currently have over 50 names on the Waiting List, therefore if you have not cultivated your plot to the extent required by the association rules it will be re-let to someone else. Oxford City Council owns the land and leases it to the EWAA for the growing of vegetables and fruit crops. The lease requires us to keep the plots in a good state of cultivation.
You can check the Cultivation Guidelines on the website, here.
If you have any queries please contact the Membership Secretary on membership@ewaa.org.uk
EWAA Committee
OUWG Open Afternoon this Saturday
This weekend our neighbours at the Oxford Urban Wildlife Group are holding an Open Afternoon, Saturday 11th September 2pm ~ 5pm at the Boundary Brook site. There will be guided walks, an Art in Nature Trail, and a wildlife photography competition. This is a chance to find out more about the work they are doing, and to become a member if you’d like to support their projects.
Entry is free and everyone is welcome.
Onions, Shallots & Garlic are now in stock!
The fresh alliums have arrived, and they look wonderful, so come along to the Shop this Sunday to buy:
- Senshyu onion sets
- Blood Red onion sets
- Red Sun shallot sets
- Thermidrome garlic
Shop re-opens this Sunday 11:00~12:00
September has now arrived, so the Shop will again be open regularly each Sunday — card payments only !
Here’s a list of the sort of thing you can expect to find: https://ewaa.org.uk/what-we-have-in-the-shop/
If you have suggestions for other items that you’d like to buy here, please pay a visit this weekend for a chat.
As yet there is no news from our supplier regarding alliums (garlic, onion sets, shallot sets), but we will post an update as soon as we know what is happening.
EWAA Committee
Leaf mould
We’ve received a delivery of leaf mould, with some woodchip mixed in. You’ll find the small pile outside the Shop gate. There is no charge for this, but please limit yourself to no more than one barrowload so that everyone gets a chance to use it.
EWAA Committee
Lost Padlock
The new padlock that was on the Cricket Road gate (between houses 66 & 68) disappeared on Saturday afternoon. Have you found it in your allotment bag?
If so, please get in touch and return it as soon as possible.
A big “thank-you” goes to the Committee Volunteers who secured the site last night and managed to attach an old padlock to the chain.
