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Dawlish Transition Ceilidh 9th February St Mary’s Hall Dawlish Warren
Dawlish Transition have organised a social and fundraising Ceilidh, taking place on the Saturday before St. Valentines Day.
7.30 – 11.30pm, Saturday 9th February, St Mary’s Hall, Dawlish Warren.
Tickets £8.50, ring Dawlish 862063 or
email: dawlishtransition@gmail.com
Raffle, bar and hot food available.
More details from the Ceilidh Flyer.
No garden does not mean no gardening!
I have no garden, no allotment, yet have found the room for a few small vegetable beds. How? Not magic, no, more a case of having an idea and mentioning it to someone, who mentioned it to somebody else…
Through a contact at TET’s Community Garden in Eastcliff Park, I discovered that a family a few streets from my home has a garden with an unused vegetable plot. I needed a plot, they had a free one. The answer was obvious: a garden share.
I met the family towards the end of the summer and we agreed how the garden share would work. I was to cultivate the vegetable plot, currently set out as four small beds, and as ‘payment’ for the use of the land, provide the family with a share of the produce.
With a good harvest I hope to be able to provide winter leeks, onion in the early summer, and a range of spring and summer crops next year.
The arrangement seems to work for everybody: I get some space for vegetables, the plot is kept in shape and the family receive part of the crop.
If you want to find out more, contact me via TET at info@teigntransition.org.uk.
Liz Green
Pre-Christmas Celebration Thursday 13th December
Members of Teignmouth Fairtrade, Friends of Eastcliff Park and Teign Estuary Transition are hosting a pre-Christmas celebration on Thursday 13thDecember.
Join us for festive cheer and to celebrate what each group has achieved over the year, hear about what we’re doing now, and what we hope to do in the future. The evening will include a shared supper, the idea being that group members and guests will bring food to share. There will be live music too.
Thursday 13th December, 7.30 pm at the TAAG Centre, Northumberland Place, Teignmouth.
For further details, email us on info@teigntransition.org.uk or call Mike Rickard on 07877 797271
2012: Sunday 18th Nov – potato party in the park
Local residents and visitors were welcomed to Eastcliff Park’s walled garden to celebrate the autumn harvest of potatoes. The sun shone and everyone enjoyed looking around the garden, admiring progress made over the year. It was a chance for members of the gardening-sub group to share tips for permaculture gardening, and then everyone was invited to share home-made soup cooked on a brick stove and potatoes baked in a small fire.
Surplus uncooked potatoes were sold – money raised will help to buy seeds to grow in the garden next year.
New self build housing opportunity for local people
The Land Society CIC (a new Devon based not for profit Community Interest Company) is inviting anyone local to Teignmouth, Dawlish and the surrounding parishes who needs housing and cannot afford to buy on the open market to come along and find out about self-building low-cost, environmentally sustainable houses in the local area.
Public meetings are being held all at 7.30 p.m. on Weds 28 November in the Manor House, Dawlish; Thurs 29 November in Kenton Victory Hall; and Tues 4 December in Bitton House, Teignmouth.
The Land Society CIC is inviting people who:
• have local connections,
• need housing but cannot afford to buy a house on the open market here and
• are interested in building their own well-insulated house with training and materials supplied.
If you cannot get to the meeting and want to register your interest, e-mail Erica Lewis, Land Society CIC on erica_lewis@btinternet.com
Upcycled Art Exhibition: 7th – 20th November 2012
Rowcroft Hospice Charity Shop, Totnes
Opening hours 9am – 4.30pm
In association with Totnes Transition and Rowcroft, local artists have created many works of art using a variety of media. Come and join them to be inspired about upcycling – the process of converting waste or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.
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