Learn about the Environment at Hambrook Marshes

Kent Enterprise Trust is running a number of outdoor course days at their peaceful site close to the heart of Canterbury, giving you the opportunity to learn about Kent’s abundant wildlife and how to use natural materials sustainably. You can learn in small relaxed groups from their knowledgeable teachers.

The days start at 10am and continue to 4pm, weather dependant. They provide teas, tools and materials, but ask you to bring lunch and wear old clothes and suitable footwear.

Hambrook Marshes is on the banks of the River Stour and can be reached via the Riverside Retail Park next the Wincheap Park and Ride in Canterbury. Follow the bridge over the river.

Further information and booking form.

Transition Network News – June

Check out the latest newsletter from the network.

CONTENTS

~ TRANSITION NETWORK CONFERENCE, 8-10th July Liverpool
COMMUNITY NEWS
~ May Transition World Round-up
~ US Edition – May Transition World Round-up
~ Draught-Busting Workshops
~ Bicycles for community building
~ Transitioner selected for Yellow Pages cover
~ Transition Network Diversity Newsletter May 2011
COMING UP
~ Social Reporting Pilot Call To Action
~ An update on ‘In Transition 2.0′ the film
~ UK Allotment Waiting Lists 2011 Report
~ Free Trees For Communities
THINKING OUT LOUD
~ No More Need to Talk to Talk About Peak Oil?
~ Transition and Activism
~ Transition and Entertainment
~ When Is a Meeting Not a Meeting?
~ Toads Talk Transport
EVENTS
Quote of the Month

Dirty Weekend a Great Success.

Lots of volunteers made the Dirty Weekend at the Stream Walk Community Garden a great success last Saturday. Everyone mucked in with building the raised beds and filling them with earth, compost and then seeds. Tomatoes were just one of the crops planted at the 1/2 acre site. For more info see the article on the thisiskent website.

Have a look at our calendar for volunteer sessions in the coming weeks, we will be there on Be Nice to Nettles Day on Saturday 28 May.

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Be Nice to Nettles Day

Saturday 28 May

Celebrate the common nettle as part of national Be Nice to Nettles Week and discover there’s more to nettles than just their sting!

Whitstable Museum, Oxford Street

Morning: Displays about the many uses of nettles, and hands-on activities.

Free, drop-in event for all ages(10.00–13.00)

AfternoonTalks:

13.45 – Grasping the Nettle: an Introduction

14.30 – Knitting With Nettles

15.15 – Nettle Folklore and Uses

Call 01227 276 998 to book the talks.

Adults £2.50, Museum Friends £2, accompanied children free.

 

Latest News from Edible Whitstable

Read the latest Edible Whitstable Newsletter

Issue 8 : May 2011

Greetings food folk! Early spring and blossom which bodes well for later foraging. Lots of food news to note since our last issue; the anti-Tesco protest in Bristol last month, planning applications for battery rabbit farms across the country and allegations from Unite of sweatshop labour down the road at Thanet Earth. Locally there is distress at the doubling of allotment charges, while at national level it appears that the government might be having second thoughts about releasing local authorities from their obligation to provide allotments.

But there are reasons to be cheerful in Whitstable as Transition Town’s growing projects are blooming.

Dirty Weekend in Whitstable – all Welcome

You’ve seen the vegetable beds at the library, you love the Farmers Market – now we’re expanding to a half acre site for community use!

There’s a working day at Whitstable’s wonderful new Stream Walk Community Garden this coming Saturday, May 21st 10am-2pm.

Lots of compost to shovel, hedges to trim, tea to make as well as a bit of carpentry. More info at http://www.permaculture.org.uk/whats-going-on/event/work-day/dirty-weekend-whitstable-compost-shovelling-day-2011-05-21. We’ll be getting ready for planting the raised beds and building a compost loo.

If you can’t make it, there are regular sessions every 3rd Satuday of the month, 10am – 2pm and also every Tuesday from 12 – 4pm.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who likes the thought of having an allotment and either can’t move up the list fast enough or doesn’t want the full responsiblity of their own plot or doesn’t know how to get started with growing their own veg and fruit – or if you just want to come and join in with the community garden.

Hope to see loads of you there – whatever your gardening skills.

Becky and Bear

Clothes Swap Evening @ Horsebridge Centre

Friday 20^th May 7pm

Swapping, recycling, making do, call it what you will but clothes swapping is in!

Bring any clothes and/or accessories that you would be proud to pass to a fellow swapper, take away as many things as you bring along. A fun way to update your wardrobe and make new friends. An informal evening based on good will and a love of free clothes! We would love to see you there.

Children are very welcome, feel free to bring along children’s clothes to swap too.

Entry £3 – No need to book just come along!

Transition Network News – May

Check out the latest newsletter from the network.

CONTENTS

THE 2011 NETWORK UK CONFERENCE

LOCAL STUFF

~ April Round Up of What’s Happening in Transition

~ People of Tottenham Street

~ Free Trees for Communities

VIDEOS

~ Movie 2.0

~ How Can We Grow More Food Locally?

THINKING ALOUD

~ Inconvenient Truths About the Coming Transition

~ Activism and Transition

PEAK OIL

~ Oil Crunch Video

~ ASPO 9 Conference Presentations

~ On Peak Oil, You Are Not Alone

~ How Many Days Work in A Litre of Oil?

ELECTRICITY

~ Community-owned Solar Powers Brewery 

~ Linlithgow’s Solar Bulk Buying Scheme

EVENTS

~ Green Gathering is back 

~ Sunrise Festival 

~ London and Thames Valley Transition Gathering, 11-June

~ Plus lots more 

TRAINING

~ Grow your Group

TECH BYTES

~ Syndication and Social Media

~ What is the best way for Transition Initiatives to use Facebook and Twitter? 

~ Facebook page. 

QUOTE OF The MONTH

~ And Finally….

Community Gardening dates for your diary

Here are latest dates if you would like to get involved in the Community gardening activities in Whitstable.

Library beds, Saturday 30th April, 10 till 12, planting session. All welcome.

Dirty Weekend, delivering compost to Stream Walk Community Garden, Saturday, May 21st.

The regular slots at the Stream Walk Community Garden are:

TTW slots, Monday and Wednesday mornings (contact Becka on 264 575).

Social Enterprise Kent (SEK, formerly Kent Enterprise Trust) will be there every Tuesday plus the third Saturday of every month.

Come and help at Whitstable’s new Stream Walk Community Garden

Volunteer Gardening!

Come and help create a fruit and vegetable garden from scratch at Whitstable’s new Stream Walk Community Garden.

Appleseed’s team will be at Stream Walk on the 3rd Saturday of every month (and a few more in April to get started) and every Tuesday to lead the work and make you welcome. Everyone is free to join in and to bring your ideas. Bring a spade and wear strong boots and gloves. Tea provided.

Dates:

Saturday April 9th 10 – 3. Planting the jam, jellies and chutney hedge

Saturday April 16th 10am – 3pm. Building raised beds and filling them with compost. Planting fruit bushes.

April 23rd 10am – 3pm. Planting the beds with vegetable seeds and plants.

Other work this season will focus on vegetable growing, building a compost toilet, creating a pond, jam making and caring for young fruit bushes.

Appleseed is part of Kent Enterprise Trust– Improving lives by creating opportunities in the community.Phone 01227 844500 or email.

More info.