Thank you to the Grays

Thank you very much to Elizabeth, Peter and Paul Gray for all their hard work at Grays Farm during 2017.

Although this excellent community resource of a pickyour-own fruit and veg farm is now closed until May 2018 (and is scheduled to continue until at least 2019), none-the-less there is a very large amount of work that goes in behind the scenes throughout the year and the closed season in getting the soil ready and crops planted for next year.

Thank you to Peter Gray for providing once again his excellent tours around the farm for schoolchildren, in showing them where vegetables and fruit is grown and how.

Many people living in Wokingham and area who have now grown up will have remembered Peter’s talks and the late Donald Gray’s talks before then.

Thank you to Elizabeth Gray [and the other staff there] for all their work in the farmshop and to Paul out in the fields with his young helpers and again to Peter in doing all the hard work and looking after all the bountiful crop we’ve had this year of produce.

Although most people will have driven (if they can get there) to the farm, there is one of my favourite walks where you see a lot of nature and escape the chaos, noise and pollution of the market place redevelopment and the roadworks.

The walk escapes the town and goes via Langborough recreation ground and over Gypsy Lane

railway bridge on via the fields past Ludgrove School and up to the farm.

It is wonderful just how much nature there is to see and hear.

So to the Gray family, see you again May 2018 when you reopen for a new season.

Thank you. Ian Hydon, Wokingham