Plant Sales, Teas and Open Day at Farnham Local Food – Sat. 18 May

Plant sale - MartinT - detail

Last year’s plants were only a taster… 2013 will be the best yet.

Stock up with seedlings to grow-your-own veg and flowers this summer: Farnham Local Food holds their annual Open Day on Sat. 18 May at their Runfold site. This year, for the first time, there are also large numbers of established perennials up to “small bush” size. Be assured also of excellent tea and cakes, children’s activities and more.

Details are on the FLF website here.

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Transition Network Newsletter – May 2013

transition-network-logoNETWORK NEWS AND NEWS OF THE NETWORK

New Delivery Director
As the first step in its planned restructure, Transition Network has appointed Sarah McAdam to the post of Delivery Director. She will be leading work to develop and ensure effective implementation of our strategy and helping focus our resources and attention on activity that’s most likely to make a difference. Thanks everyone who took the time and trouble to apply for this post – we had a lot of interest from across the movement.

Transition Network Job:
Initiative Support Co-ordinator

We are seeking to appoint an Initiative Support Coordinator who will play a key role in Continue reading

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Porritt on Population – join the debate

Jonathon Porritt - PM - thumb“The Human Predicament”

POPULATION MATTERS invites you to hear
leading environmentalist JONATHON PORRITT
on why population matters so much.

Bapsy Hall, WINCHESTER GUILDHALL, SO23 9GH

Monday 22 April 2013 at 7pm ADMISSION FREE

Transport from Farnham available – contact David

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TRANSITION NEWSLETTER

April 2013 – Transition Network Newsletter

NETWORK NEWS AND NEWS OF THE NETWORK

Introducing Transition Thursdays
Starting in June, to coincide with the publication of ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’, Transition Network will be holding 6 consecutive ‘Transition Thursdays’. The aim is to use the launch of the book as the opportunity to bring some support and invigoration to initiatives, and potentially to enable some exciting coming together of neighbouring initiatives too.
We would like to invite initiatives who would like to host one to get in touch:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/2013-04-03/introducing-transition-thursdays

Transition US Challenge
During the month of May, join thousands of people across the US who will be taking action to rise to the challenge of food, water, and energy independence.
http://transitionus.org/actions/transition-challenge

Please Update Your Transition Network Widgets
Our widget code has been updated since our webserver move earlier this month so if you have a Transition Network widget, please update it:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/syndication-and-social-media#widgets

The March Round Up has been delayed due to illness but will be on the website next week
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/


REconomy

Totnes publishes groundbreaking Local Economic Blueprint
The Blueprint is the first attempt to map in detail a local economy and to put a value on the potential benefits of an increased degree of localisation. If you like, it identifies “the size of the prize” of Transition.
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/2013-03-28/totnes-publishes-groundbreaking-local-economic-blueprint

Are social enterprises doing enough…. good?
We’re looking for the Top 20 Transition-oriented social enterprises changing their communities, the economy and the world…. And we’d like you to nominate them.
http://www.reconomy.org/are-social-enterprises-doing-enough-good/ Continue reading

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GUIDED TOUR OF THE NEW VISITOR CENTRE AT BUTSER ANCIENT FARM


 Booking Essential

Please see great opportunity to have a  guided tour of the new Visitor Centre at the Butser Ancient Farm, Chalton:

http://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/visit-us/
 
Richard Weavis is arranging a tour of the Butser Ancient Farm Visitor Centre for 10.30am on Saturday 20th April.
 
“ I envisage the tour will take about an hour, and the Centre has said they will offer a discount rate of £6 for anyone who would like to have a look around the roundhouses and the remainder of the site after the tour.
I will explain the all-timber construction including the unique timber piling system, and use of sheeps wool insulation etc.
I will also show how the biomass boiler, solar thermal system, solar pv array, natural daylight and ventilation tubes, rainwater harvesting system, small package sewage treatment plant, reed bed and balancing pond work.
 
If anyone is interested please let me know by email well before the date:  
Richard Weavis @rewconstructionservices.co.uk

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Seattle builds park as first Food Forest in USA

food forestSeattle is taking the next steps in achieving its vision to become the kind of place people want to live in the 21st century.

A seven acre public park will be planted as a ‘food forest’ later this year.

Species to be grown include walnuts and chestnuts, blueberries, raspberries, apples, pears, and various herbs.

Their fruits will be available to residents.

More details here: http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/02/21/its-not-fairytale-seattle-build-nations-first-food-forest

Is this something you would like to see in Farham?

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Surrey’s Local Resilience Forum Capabilities Day – 18 May 2013

It’s good to see that Surrey CC is taking Local Resilience, a cornerstone of Transition thinking, seriously:

On Saturday the 18th May 2013 Surrey Local Resilience Forum (SLRF) will be hosting a capabilities day. This day is open to all SLRF organisations and will focus on the role of the voluntary sector during an emergency and will provide an opportunity to understand the capability that Surrey’s Category One and Two Responders and voluntary agencies. Continue reading

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