Edible Whitstable Transition Town Food Group – for further details please contact Bear Hawkins on 07834 392 843.
Whitstable Farmers’ Market
2nd and 4th Saturdays in the month, 9.30-2pm St Mary’s Hall Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre. A Market Retail Health Check survey in December 2009 counted a 777 footfall with 441 shoppers showing evidence of purchase, a “conversion rate” of 57%. The market is seen as attractive and well attended with good range of products and friendly interaction between traders and customers.
www.whitstablefarmersmarket.co.uk
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Edible Whitstable @ Stream Walk
Building on the success of Edible Whitstable @ The Library, this exciting new project is now under way. If you are interested in finding out more or volunteering please come along on any Tuesday, 12 till 4 or the 3rd Saturday of every month.
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This is a project underpinned by the desire to share the passion for ‘growing your own’ in Whitstable. The specific aim is to provide a place where diverse groups and individuals can enjoy and learn to grow their own food and other useful plants.
Get Composting
Composting is a natural process of decomposition of organic matter, such as fruit and vegetable peelings, grass cuttings and fallen leaves. The result is a nutrient rich, peat free material, ideal for feeding and improving garden soils and helping plants to grow strong and healthy. Compost can be made in approximately 8 weeks but it can take a year or more depending on the materials you use and the amount of effort you put in. The more attention you pay to making an efficient compost bin, the quicker you will get results. You can use: fruit and vegetable scraps, tea bags, coffee grounds, cut flowers, bedding plants, straw and hay, vegetable plant remains, straw/manure, hedge clippings, soft prunings, perennial weeds, vegetarian animal bedding, autumn leaves, sawdust, wood shavings, hair, vacuum bags, cardboard and newspaper to name a few.
If you would like to read further information about how and why we should compost see this link to Kent BTCV
http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/kent_compost
Fiona Houghton http://www2.btcv.org.uk/kent_training.pdf
Kent Compost Adviser/ Project Officer, BTCV
Website: www.btcv.org/kent
To download the latest training brochure: www2.btcv.org.uk/kent_training.pdf
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Hi bear et al!
Just noticed the bit on compost and ref to btcv.as btcv have changed their name(a link would still work)and as I’m on maternity, you may want to remove it. I’m very happy to remain a contact though.
Also, it’s something I think about each yr,but never do anything about, and thought if I put it out there maybe I will! Fruit collecting from whits households, elderly etc that have an excess or have no interest in their fruit allowing others to benefit from it. Could lead to some income for tt or individuals or farmers Market or stream walk community pressing n juicing, pasteurising and then bottling and selling a local whits wonder juice?could also be a nice way to connect with older folk owning large gardens they can’t manage and younger people being mentored by them and extending the tt net wider.
Any thoughts anyone?
Fiona
Fiona,
Regarding changes to the web site, please email ttwsite@btinternet.com with exact details of any changes needed.
I checked both links above: they still work, but the training on the pdf is for last year.
Regarding your other suggestion, I just maintain the site. Don’t know if anybody else is monitoring. Though it would be interesting to find out.
If you don’t get a reply in a few days, I suggest that you email transitionwhitstable@gmail.com. I think most of the TTW activists are on this list.
Regards, Julian