Saturday 29 May 2010


RABI GARDEN WINS BRONZE AWARD AT CHELSEA

The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Insittuion which works to support farming familes is this year celebrating its 150th anniversary.  To celebrate RABI entered a garden in this years Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by Ben Wincott of Writtle College and sponsored by Wilkin and Sons the jam makers at Tipree the John Joseph Mechi Garden won a  bronze medal.

To read more about the garden and to see photos of this prize entry go to:  www.rabi.org.uk/supporting_rabi/Chelsea.html  and : http://www.writtlecollege.ac.uk/

MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL INVOLVED!

The offices of RABI are in Oxford and as part of the clebrations the Oxfordshire Farming Harvest Service, this year to be held at Burford Church on  THURSDAY OCTOBER 14th at 7pm when the speaker will be the current RABI Chairman, Julian Sayers, a well known land agent, who is also a Churchwarden in his local church in the diocese.  A collection will be taken at the service for RABI.


_____posted May 29TH 2010_____
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