From a friendly local organisation:
Discussion and homemade cake:
Interested in food? Interested in the future of food? Interested in talking about the future of food? Rationing? Self-Sufficiency? Meals in a pill?
Date: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Where: Boiling Wells, St Werburghs, (past the City Farm, around the self-build and through the tunnel)
Time: 7pm
No need to book – [...]
Some upcoming events from other Bristol organisations you might be interested in:
Thingloop, a Bristol start-up promoting sharing and collaborative consumption
How to set up a food-buying group, 7th July (registration form)
Herb walks, May-October
Invasive weed pulling, 17th July
Community-supported agriculture project at Frenchay
Tags:bristol·event·Food·green spaces
Please see here for an update on what we’ve been up to so far.
The next outdoor session will be Sat 29th May 10am to 3pm in Picton Square. Come and tell us what you like and don’t like about urban greening so far, and what you want to see in the future!
The next planning meeting [...]
We didn’t take full minutes, but a flavour of the evening is below. Shiona, Sally, Lucy, Steve, Karen, Ingrid, Esther, Simon, Danny, Chris, Claudia, David and Mima attended.
The Mapping Day on Sunday went very well, with about 30 people in attendance and everyone enjoying the walk and cakes. Many people felt uncomfortable identifying gardens as [...]
Tags:bristol·Food·green spaces·montpelier·park·Picton Square
The Growing Group is currently identifying spaces in Montpelier to plant trees, fruits, vegetables and wildlife friendly plants. We welcome all residents to get involved.
As well as our most valuable resource – people power (!) – we are also in need of materials to transform these spaces. If you have anything to offer, [...]
Tags:bean·feast·Food·green spaces·growing·montpelier·park·Picton Square·resources·street·sustainable
The Food and Green Spaces Group (snappier name to follow!) met on Thursday 25th Feb for another very positive discussion. We focussed on the logistics for our upcoming Mapping Day, Sunday 21 March, meeting outside Gallifords/Bells Diner at 11 to start. All are welcome, particularly families, and we will have a variety of free goodies [...]
We had another well attended and interesting meeting. Over 55 people attended, donating £17.26 towards expenses. Thanks to all who participated, helped clear up, have written up summaries, baked cakes and buscuits, agreed to take on treasurer and bookkeeping roles for Transition Montpelier and all other actions, and Kassin and his team for the use [...]
At the Open Meeting on 10th Feb we had a really enthusiastic and idea filled discussion about sustainable food in Montpelier! As Energy was the hot hot topic of the night we had a small group, but we’re sure there are plenty of other people who would be interested, both from the Energy discussion and [...]
Tags:bean·bristol·feast·Food·green spaces·montpelier·park·Picton Square
Power from solar panels could earn £900, on top of £140 reduction on household energy bill!
The speaker Miguel Mendonca at our meeting next Wednesday has played an significant role in a new government scheme that cash rewards will be available for small scale low carbon electricity production via a feed-in tariff to be introduced [...]
Hello with a grrr and a brrr
Welcome to 2010. Over the past few weeks with the disappointment of Copenhagen (grrr), the importance of a grass roots response to climate change and peak oil is even clearer. If you couple the very cold winter (brrr), which highlighted both vulnerabilities in national food supply as well as [...]
Tags:20mph·energy·Food·meeting·park·Picton Square·Streets·Winter Fayre
