November 2010 FoodTalk Posts (11)

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New Garden Share for SO41 area

Transition Lymington have started to set up a local Land Share scheme for the SO41 area. So far we have been offered a garden in central Lymington and are looking for a gardener ideally within walking or cycling distance of the garden.

Plot details: There is currently approximately 5 x 6m grass area plus an additional 5 x 2m clearable area (brambles and shrubs) so some work is neccessary to prepare the land for growing vegetables. A photo is attached. The garden owner is hoping for…
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Added by SarahF on November 29, 2010 at 18:30 — No Comments

How did your free fruit trees do this year?

It's coming up to a year since New Forest Food distributed lots of apple and pear trees..... How did yours do? I had a pear tree which looked quite good and had plenty of leaves but no fruit. I've heard ridiculous claims of bountiful produce from others......looking forward to hearing from you!

Added by Richard on November 24, 2010 at 19:30 — 4 Comments

Market Dates

Just a small amendment to the friday food e-mail- Plaitford is on SATURDAY 10-2 and Beaulieu is on SUNDAY 10-2. Hope to see you there.

Added by Catherine Shutler on November 12, 2010 at 12:36 — No Comments

Planeat the Movie - Sustainable food - Sustainable health



http://www.planeatthemovie.com





Glad to see I'm not the only one harping on about the connections between sustainability and health.



A new movie called Planeat focusses on some… Continue

Added by Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutrition on November 11, 2010 at 15:00 — No Comments

Streetbank: Skill share

Although its not strictly food related, i thought some of you may be interested in StreetBank, a similar movement to FreeCycle, it allows you to advertise items that you wish to lend out, give away for free, or skills and services you are offering. Unfortunately, there are no other members within a mile radius of pennington, so i am hoping to recruit all eco-centric's in the local area.
Enjoy :)

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 10, 2010 at 14:18 — No Comments

Green Space Allotment: Materials Needed

You may have read my previous post about the new collaborative growing project, Green Space, that launches later this month. The event listing can be found here, for more information

The project involves creating an interactive and educational comunity garden. The garden will be entirely created and maintained by volunteers. To follow on the same community spirit, we will be sourcing all our materials through… Continue

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 10, 2010 at 12:28 — No Comments

Need space to grow? visit Landshare!

I recently discovered Landshare, an online portal that connects people who need space to grow, with those who have land. Could be incredibly useful resource in gaining more growing space across the new forest!

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 10, 2010 at 12:13 — No Comments

The Big Lunch!

The Big Lunch was launched by the Eden Project in 2009. Thousands of

events have taken place all around the UK and a whopping million people

have participated each year since its begginings, 3 years ago.



The Big Lunch is a day to celebrate neighbourliness across the UK by having lunch with your

community – in a park, school playground, synagogue, mosque, communal

garden or even better, in the street – just about anywhere you can get

together and enjoy meeting,… Continue

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 7, 2010 at 23:11 — 2 Comments

Dorset & Forest Farmers' market, Brockenhurst

We called in at the farmers' market at Brockenhurst today. The veg, fruit etc on the Sopley stall all looked wonderful. We found it difficult not to buy at least one of everything! Couldn't resist a Romansco or the coloured carrots even though they weren't on our shopping list. The bread on the Cottage Loaf Bakery stall was tempting too (& we didn't resist that either.) It wasn't very busy when we were there but a large group of donkeys tried to come into the Hall just as we were leaving.… Continue

Added by Sandra Barnett on November 6, 2010 at 18:30 — No Comments

GREEN SPACE

"GREEN SPACE" is a local food and sustainability project; to install a community allotment and growing space.



The idea was coined by myself and Michael Parsons, two young enviromentalists in the lymington area. We approached a voluntary project in the area The EDGE Project, and the idea was quickly put into motion. After presenting the idea to ArtSway, it was approved and we started to make plans for installing the garden.



The Green space garden will include an interactive,… Continue

Added by Michelle Morgan on November 4, 2010 at 14:03 — No Comments

Advice on Sources of Sustainable and Community Funding

I was surprised by the number of sources of advice present for funding sustainable and community projects in the New Forest. So, I have prepared a list of the organisations and the people in them who you can contact. Access the list here…

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Added by John Pemberton on November 1, 2010 at 21:00 — 1 Comment

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Posted by SarahF on April 19, 2013 at 18:16 0 Comments

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The Food Challenge have booked a stall at the New Forest Spring Fair on Sunday 5th May.

We will running a very activity led stall, with lots of seed planting, poem writing and pot making.

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We like cheese!

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I tried the cheese from the Fernhill Cheese Company and went back for more! Soft, creamy and fresh, the children liked it too. Worth stopping at their stall at Lymington Saturday Market just opposite St Thoma's Church.

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