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Community Garden Book Sale: Thurs 13th Sept 10am – 3pm
We are holding a book sale on behalf of the Community Garden and would welcome contributions of any good quality books you may have to spare. If you have enjoyed them, others will!
Thursday 13th September 2012 from 10 am to 3 pm, at:
The Den, Teignmouth
Books on: Gardening, Cookery, Ecology, Sustainable Living, the Natural World plus any other good reads.
There will be plants and seedlings for sale too.
For further info, please contact Fran: tel. 01626 770318/mob 07812 013488
We have a poster available for download if you are able to display it for us.
June 2012 Photos of tree-damage to the Walled Garden
A tree was blown over into the garden during the recent storms in June 2012, causing structural damage to a section of the surrounding wall and to some of the work done within. Nobody was in the area at the time. After restricting access to the site, Teignbridge Council checked the area, moved the fallen tree, and confirmed that we could continue to garden on Sunday 17th June.
More details to follow.
Photos show some of the damage, and people working in the garden while enjoying the good weather on Sunday morning.
Tree damage to Walled Garden
As you know, the winds have been very powerful this week and unfortunately an ash has fallen onto the wall of our walled garden. It has cut right through a section of the wall between the old doorway and towards the compost bins.
Teignbridge will have been working on removing the tree yesterday (Saturday) and sadly we are not allowed to go into the walled garden until Teignbridge declares the site safe. So until further notice there will be no further gardening.
A Visit to the Zoo
On March 3rd a group from TET enjoyed an excellent morning at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in the company of Kevin Frediani, curator of Plants and Gardens. We had come to learn about the vertical growing system which is providing much of the feed for the animals. However, we learnt much more.
For many of us who have previously been to the zoo (more than 5 years ago) it challenged our view of the role that zoos can play in sustainable living and the crucial relationship between plants and animals. Zoos, at least Paignton, could become TET’s most visited tourist attraction.
We were not expecting to be shown around the zoo or to see how the ethical motif of sustainability underpins so much of their work. As we know biodiversity, both in plants and animals, plays a leading role in our survival and here it is in action led by a passionate advocate in the field.
Following a slide show of the verticrop system illustrating how this intensive vertical growing system can produce huge crops, without soil, crops that have higher nutritional value and are protected from pests and diseases, we were led through to see the system. Besides providing constant food for the animals, the application of this model could have a use in providing fresh food in cities or any land challenged area.
In other situations it frees up land that can then be used for crucial habitats for diffent species. It also produces fresh food where it is needed thus cutting air-miles. We could appreciate why this work has received so many awards both nationally and internationally.
Finally, we were shown a small system using fish and their by-products to nurture vegetables. We are hoping to have a future event in Teignmouth on this topic. Watch this space!
Seedy Saturday 11th February BOVEY CLIMATE ACTION
Seedy Saturday
Saturday 11th February 10am-2pm
Methodist Hall,
Le Molay Littry Way, Bovey Tracey
Free Entry – Seeds only 50p!
Whether you are a seasoned gardener or a complete beginner, come and stock up on really good vegetable seeds at 50p a pack!
Bring your saved seeds, to swap.
There will be expert advice, home-made refreshments, tombola and a junior-gardener area, where under 16s can pot up and take home free seeds!
Good wheelchair access.
Ring Gail on 01626 832478 for more information
Or e-mailgailbanham@talktalk.net
Review of potato party, Sunday 16th October
The sun shone as about 80 friends, neighbours, local residents and members of Teign Estuary Transition met to eat the first crop of potatoes, grown within Eastcliff Park’s walled garden.
The abundant crop of delicious red-skinned Sarpo potatoes were baked on a huge bonfire; Sian Avon, Senior Countryside Ranger for Teignbridge District Council, supported the event throughout the day and provided wood for burning.
The main event started at 3pm, with David Haines conducting Teignmouth Community Choir singing environmental-themed songs to celebrate the garden and its harvest, before everyone enjoyed the feast of free potatoes and salads, also grown in the garden. Surplus uncooked potatoes were sold – money raised will help to buy seeds to grow in the garden next year.
We are grateful to the local press for publicising this event so effectively. It was promoted beforehand in Herald Express and Teignmouth Post. The Teignmouth Post also printed a two-page picture-feature reviewing the day (see p 20/21, Friday 21st October 2011).
Photos by Phil Cross
Teign Estuary Transition 