Remember the Portobello Organic Market is on this Saturday, June 4 at Brighton Park from 9:30am to 1:30pm. Hope you can make it along!
The stalls this month will be: Continue reading
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Portobello Organic Market, this Saturday 4th June
Fantastic locally-produced, seasonal and organic food, drink, arts & crafts for sale.
This Saturday there will be new stalls by Kaori Simpson (Japanese noodle bar) and Burgh Bakes (marshmallow cakes).
Where: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello When: 9.30am — 1.30pm For more information visit the market page.
Setting up and Sustaining a Community Garden, Dundee, 18th May
This event is organized by Urban Roots, a community led environmental charity. The programme for the day will depend on participants’ needs – have your say on the Booking Form when you reserve a place.
Booking forms can be downloaded at www.farmgarden.org.uk/scotland For further information please contact Naomi Knights, tel: 0131 623 7058 or email: naomi@farmgarden.org.uk
Portobello Organic Market, this Saturday, 7th May
Fantastic locally-produced, seasonal and organic food, drink, arts & crafts for sale.
Where: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh
When: 9.30 — 1.30, Saturday 7th May 2011
For information on stallholders at this Saturday’s market click here.
For information on the market, how to get there, and how to book a stall, click here.
An Introduction to Organic Vegetable Gardening
Bridgend Growing Communities
Interested in growing your own fruit and vegetables? Not sure where to begin? This introductory course at the Bridgend Allotments will give you a grounding in all you need to know to start growing your own food. Continue reading
Does organic food cost me more?
Many people like the idea of the organic market and of eating more organic food, but believe the prices are just too high. Cheap food, often available in the supermarkets through BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free) offers and so on is good, surely? Actually, the answer is usually NO!
‘Cheap’ food is, in fact, largely a myth and doesn’t actually exist, because in the meantime someone, somewhere is paying instead. Or the environment is paying; and when the environment pays, we can be sure that, sooner or later, the bill will fall on us.
Read more or this article… Does organic food cost me more?
Community Growing Spaces Meeting
PEDAL has been offered a number of bits of land to use as community food growing spaces. We now need to work out how we are going to use them – is there a group wanting to take on each of the spaces? Would people like a training course (we would need to charge for this as we don’t have any more funding) to kick start the process?
Would you like to get involved in developing a community farm?
If you think this sounds exciting and would like to get involved in any way then please come to a meeting on Tuesday 26th April 7.30 – 9.30 at Portobello Community Centre. If you’re not able to make the meeting but are interested in getting involved please let me know jane@gn.apc.org
Look forward to seeing you there.
Jane
Grow Your Own course this spring
This spring Dave Roberts of Telferton Allotment Association will be running another grow your own course in association with PEDAL.
There are five places available on the course, and the cost will be £15 per person in total (this will cover the costs of seeds, fertiliser and other materials). The course will be held at Telferton Allotments over four Saturdays — 23 April, 7 May, 14th May, and 21 May 2011. Participants will learn how to dig, prepare and sow the beds. Thereafter it would be up to you to look after the crop with Dave being available to assist and help where necessary until November.
The course is aimed at people who have no previous growing experience and who did not attend our previous allotment grow your own course last year (those who attended other PEDAL growing courses are however welcome).
In the first session participants will be allocated a plot and Dave will advise on how to prepare the ground and discuss with you what you would like to grow. The following sessions will focus on preparing the ground, sowing and tending your crop. Dave is happy to help participants to grow whatever they would like, within the bounds of the growing season up until November.
For more information or to book a place, contact Dave Roberts by e‑mail.
Organic Vegan Banquet in aid of Coal Action Scotland
Friday, 1st April 2011, 7.30pm. Old St. Paul’s, Edinburgh. Entry £6 – 10 sliding scale depending upon what you can afford.
Come along and join us for a delicious 3 course organic vegan meal, live music and entertainments through the night, provided by the Coal Action Scotland collective. The event is to help raise funds and spread awareness about the massive expansion of the coal industry in Scotland. Bring your friends, your colleagues, your family… and their families! All are welcome.
We try to make all our events as accessible to everybody as possible and as such we are happy to cater for any dietary or accessibility requirements that you or your friends may have. We just ask that you let us know in advance so we can prepare for these properly.
Contact us at: banquet[at]coalactionscotland.org.uk
Tickets can be purchased in advance from the forest cafe, reserved by emailing the address above or bought on the night. However, due to demand at previous banquets we recommend buying/reserving tickets in advance to ensure you get a seat (especially if you may be late).
Finally, if you dig such things; there is also a facebook group that you can join — http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164390753612487
Hope to see you there!
Love and Rage,
Coal Action Scotland X
All proceeds go to CAS, a collective which exists to challenge the devastating expanse of the coal industry throughout Scotland. Coal is one of the most carbon intensive industries and current rates of extraction, transportation and combustion are having dramatic effects on local and global ecosystems and the environment.
All these processes have equally horrific effects on human health both here in Scotland and throughout the world.
Despite these facts and because of hypocritical government policies, much of the industrial world is still inextricably linked to coal and Scotland is no different. We at CAS exist to challenge the reliance on this unsustainable fossil fuel and work towards creating positive solutions with communities who pay the true costs of the coal; the fuel which perpetuates and catalyses our current course of ecocide and planetary collapse.
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Finish Your Food Training Course
CHANGEWORKS PRESENTS…
THE SCOTTISH WASTE EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAMME’S
‘FINISH YOUR FOOD’
One Day Training Course
Reducing Food Waste in Schools and Communities
***HURRY! SPECIAL OFFER***
***ONLY £95!!***
One third of food is wasted when it could be reduced, reused and recycled. This fabulous food waste training course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and information needed to engage schools and communities in reducing food waste.
You will observe the highly engaging ‘Finish Your Food with Mr Silly Sausage’ project in action and learn about the techniques employed to tackle wastage. The ‘Finish Your Food’ project is an excellent way to support Eco Schools initiatives and reduce food waste in school. Learn how pupils become active citizens as they raise awareness at home with the ‘Plate Pledge’ family challenge and the whole community is effectively engaged in food waste reduction.
About Us:
The Scottish Waste Education Support Programme (SWESP) run by Changeworks has been delivering high quality waste education training courses to the majority of Scotland’s local authorities and community organisations for the last 5 years. You too could benefit from our unique approach to waste education through a range of activities, techniques and top tips based on tried and tested waste education from experienced waste educators.
Course:
09:00: Presentation on how to reduce food waste in schools and at home
11:30: School visit
12:00: Visit dining hall to see lunch in progress
13:30: Whole school presentation ‘Finish Your Food with Mr Silly Sausage’
13:50: Talk with eco pupils about recording food waste as Zero Waste Heroes
14:00: Depart school
14:30: Arrive Changeworks for coffee and debrief
For more information see: http://www.changeworks.org.uk/shared/swesp/584/
Previous participants said:
“A good variety of information, practical activities and opportunities to share with others. Well worth the time and money.”
Date: 21st March 2011
Venue: Changeworks, 36 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh, EH6 5PY
(10 mins from city centre)
Cost: Special rate of £95 + VAT
Included: Lunch, refreshments, all training materials
To book your place contact:
Jane Adams, Waste Prevention Administrator,
A: Changeworks, 36 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh, EH6 5PY.
T: 0131 555 4010 E: jadams@changeworks.org.uk