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Food group meeting

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, events

[ April 21, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] The next food group meet­ing will be on Wednesday 21 April, 7:30pm at the Dalriada. Hope you can make it!

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Brief cartoon Video explaining Cap and Trade

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Food, events

[ November 26, 2009; 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Story of Cap and Trade
Although they sound sim­i­lar, Cap and Trade and Cap and Share are entirely dif­fer­ent approaches to cli­mate change:

CAP and SHARE (www.capandshare.org) is a sys­tem which can be used to CAP (to limit and dra­mat­i­cally reduce the car­bon com­ing into the coun­try in line with the sci­ence), and to SHARE (to dis­trib­ute the […]

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Next orchard workday

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards, events

[ November 22, 2009; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The next work­day at the Donkey Field Community Orchard will be on Sunday November 29th, 11am — 3pm.  The orch­ard is really start­ing to take shape now — BTCV have made a won­der­ful path, which, when fin­ished, will give wheel­chair access to the site.  Come along on Nov 29th and have a look!

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Dingle the donkey

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards

At last, here we have it! A genu­ine photo of Dingle, the don­key who used to live in the field which is now the com­munity orch­ard. This must have been taken around 1968. Also in the photo is my brother Duncan (the one in the fore­ground, ha, ha).
Sorry Dingle isn’t actu­ally facing the cam­era  —  he cer­tainly wasn’t […]

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Orchard Midsummer celebration

June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards, events

[ June 20, 2009; 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]

Over 80 folk came to the Midsummer cel­eb­ra­tion at the orch­ard site (Brunstane Road South, just oppos­ite Brunstane Station) on Saturday 20 June.

People brought food and drink and good humour, and some brought musical instru­ments (thank you Jicca, Misha and Ian!).

We had lovely weather and the chil­dren have cre­ated their own climb­ing and leap­ing place, […]

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New Community Orchard, the planting has begun!

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards

The first work­day at Donkey Field Orchard was pro­duct­ive and fun! Three trees and four fruit bushes planted. This is just the begin­ning–  the next work­day is the 10th of May, every­one wel­come to lend a hand.
See Orchard Project under Food head­ing for loc­a­tion of Orchard and more about the project.

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