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The bees need you…

Posted on March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments
Foxglove and bee

photo: Jane Lewis

The bees need you and we need the bees! Bees are import­ant pol­lin­at­ors and honey pro­du­cers; their num­bers are declin­ing. As part of the orch­ard pro­ject PEDAL are con­sid­er­ing keep­ing bee hives in the orch­ard. It would need a com­mit­ted group with,or to train to get, the skills to set up and look after the hives through the year.It could be a fas­cin­at­ing and reward­ing way to spend some time.
If you are inter­ested in this idea con­tact Tom Ballantine — ballantinehome@tiscali.co.uk or phone 0131 669 0582

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Food group meeting

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off on Food group meeting

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

Posted on November 22, 2009 | Comments Off on Brief cartoon Video explaining Cap and Trade

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 rev­enue raised to ensure peo­ple have the money to cope with the increased price in all goods and ser­vices which have car­bon content).

In con­trast, CAP and TRADE (the EU response to cli­mate change, and the approach being pro­posed at Copen­hagen) sim­ply enables busi­ness as usu­al (soar­ing emis­sions, soar­ing fuel prices and soar­ing prof­its for the heavy emit­ters) to con­tinue. See this superb 20 minute car­toon expla­na­tion of how Cap and Trade works: The Story of Cap and Trade

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Next orchard workday

Posted on November 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Next orchard workday

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

Posted on August 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Dingle the donkey

Duncan and DingleAt 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 shy. He would chase any wee boys fool­ish enough to go into the field, and he once took a bite out of my cous­in’s best jacket!

–Chris

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Orchard Midsummer celebration

Posted on June 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Orchard Midsummer celebration

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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, leav­ing the rest of us free to chat and have a relax­ing time.

(Click on the image to down­load the poster.)

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New Community Orchard, the planting has begun!

Posted on April 13, 2009 | Comments Off on New Community Orchard, the planting has begun!

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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