8 May 2009
A Couple of Short Transition Film Clips
Transition Brixton just posted a couple of clips from a recent event they ran about food. The first clip features Rosie Boycott, London’s ‘Food Czar’, speaking about food security for the city.
An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
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1 May 2009
Some Good News from Transition Town Forres
Digging in for the gardening season ahead are Carin Schwartz, chairperson of the Transition Town Forres group, and Paul Harvey, newly appointed chairman of the Forres Community Garden Group.
Garden Group All Set To Get Digging. From the Forres Gazzette
April 8th 2009.
MEMBERS of the Transition Town Forres (TTF) group were celebrating last week after being officially given the keys to land on Bogton Road for their community garden and allotment project.
The group have been trying to get their hands on the land for about a year, and seemed to have to cut through a seemingly endless amount of necessary red tape before Moray Council would agree to lease the land to them.
17 Apr 2009
An Update on Totnes Nut Tree Plantings
Here is an excellent update on the nut tree plantings taking place in Totnes, those of you doing similar things in your communities might find this useful…. my thanks to Wendy for documenting this.
Background:
TTT started a nut tree planting scheme in Totnes in March 2007, with the planting of a few varieties of nut trees on Vire island. The vision behind this scheme is to provide another source of nutritious food for the community in the future.
31 Mar 2009
The Hopkins Family Tree
On Sunday, Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust, and star of the recent ‘A Farm for the Future’ programme, came round to my house to perform radical surgery on a tree of mine. The tree in question (see below left), a dessert apple, had been suffering from an odd ailment which meant that no sooner had it come into leaf, than all the leaves fell off, which in turn meant it was unable to make any fruit. Martin’s diagnosis had been that the tree had some kind of fungal virus, but was essentially healthy, and that given that none of the other apple trees suffered from the same thing, it was an ailment specific to that variety. The answer was to transform the tree into a ‘family tree’.
24 Mar 2009
A Friendly Permaculture Critique of the Obamas’ Vegetable Garden
If I had written it as a Transition Tale in the Transition Handbook, it would have ranked as being even more ridiculous than the Beckhams’ cob retirement house. However, here we are, and Michelle Obama has started to dig up part of the White House lawn and turn it into a vegetable garden. According to the New York Times;
…whether there would be a White House garden had become more than a matter of landscaping. The question had taken on political and environmental symbolism, with the Obamas lobbied for months by advocates who believe that growing more food locally, and organically, can lead to more healthful eating and reduce reliance on huge industrial farms that use more oil for transportation and chemicals for fertilizer.
