Due to the closure of Braxton Gardens the monthly farmers market has moved to Everton Garden Centre. The times will be the same, 9am-3pm, on the first Saturday of the month, and we will still have the same excellent stalls and variety of New Forest produce. The market will be at the end of the car park, and well sign posted.

The markets have been doing well, with footfall up slightly at our regular markets, and a good turnout for the new Market at Plaitford. The continued support of…

The last government bancrupted the country by rewarding the incompetance of city gamblers, this government's answer is to balance the books by stealing and sellling off the last few remaining assets that public have access to. The latest slash and burn govern - mental idea is to sell off the UK's forests

Perhaps we should start a charity -…

The Local Food Summit last month focused on Possible Solutions to the existing problems with local food.

Below is a list of solutions that were talked about on the day, and put them under some main headings:

• More land for growing
• Increase Food…

I have just updated the map to include the monthly markets in Plaitford, Hale, Beaulieu, Lyndhurst, Sandy Balls and Braxton Gardens. It also now has a couple of places to eat out, where local food is served (see the knife and fork symbols).

Please let me know of any more local food outlets. They may be just a sign at the side of the road…

New Forest’s The Park Community Radio has been broadcasting as an internet radio station for a couple of years now. Listen to it by typing in www.thepark.fm to your browser and click on Listen Live. A recent newsletter has affirmed it will be broadcasting on FM:

“... We have spent many hours attending events…

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From the Summit, the questions was raised about selling food from allotments. See these (hopefully) useful pages/ documents from OrganicLea & StroudCo:

http://www.stroudco.org.uk/documents/Selling_allotment_produce_-_the_law.pdf…