Community Garden admin meeting: Sun 17th
On Sunday 17th we’re holding our first administration meeting for the Community Garden. These meetings will be occurring on a quarterly basis. The meeting will be held at 10 am in the Walled Garden, preceding our normal weekly gardening session. Please come along to help plan the running of our work at Eastcliff.
Rabbit fencing in the Walled Garden
Work party on Friday morning with Teignbridge Rangers, Friends of Eastcliff, and Teign Estuary Transition
Sunday 10th April, 11am: learn how to make compost
We are arranging a session on making compost in the Walled Garden, Eastcliff Park. HogCO will lead the session starting at 11.00 am. It would be useful if we could bring a sack of something – garden weeds, kitchen scraps, animal manure, autumn leaves, buy a bale of straw, waste veg. from the local fruit and veg shop. Just make sure all the different types of materials are kept separate, please. The Garden is a lovely sun trap, so you may wish to bring sun-screen lotion and water to drink.
For more details about Devon-based HogCO (Home Grown – Community Owned) see: http://www.hogco-devonrcc.org.uk/
It will be an interesting and educational morning. See you there!
Saturday 26th March: social event celebrated Earth Hour
Members and friends of Teign Estuary Transition Group gathered on Saturday 26th March to celebrate Earth Hour 2011. This is an annual global event when people across the world turn off lights for one hour between 8.30 – 9.30 pm to celebrate the planet together and raise awareness of climate change. Our thanks to Neil Johns who supported the event by opening the Oystercatcher’s Cafe in Teignmouth, where members’ food was shared and eaten by candle-light.
Energy-use is one area that the Transition Group focuses on – the challenge after Earth Hour is to continue seeking ways of making a difference. The Group’s next energy-meeting is at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 13th April in the King’s Arms, Teignmouth: all welcome.
Photos show Neil Johns, owner of the Oystercatcher, along with some members and friends of the Teign Estuary Transition Group.
Walled Garden Workday 1st April
The Walled Garden in Eastcliff Park is being cleared and weeded for planting this spring. A series of workdays by Teign Estuary Transition and Friends of Eastcliff, with star turns from the Rangers of Teignbridge Council and the Community Payback crew, have seen the walls cleared of ivy, the ground cleared, the raised beds in the Walled Garden ‘extension’ weeded and the surrounding paths cleared to reveal the pattern of a vegetable garden established generations ago.
The next challenge is to keep those busy inhabitants of Eastcliff Park, the rabbits, out of the way – while we grow fruit and vegetables for the rest of us. So the Rangers are back in the Walled Garden on Friday 1st April from 10am until 2pm to lead a workday building a rabbit-proof fence. If you can spare some time on Friday morning you’d be very welcome and you may be able to try your hand at fencing. For the poster advertising the day please click on teigntransition.org.uk
Members of Teign Estuary Transition try to get there most Sunday mornings from 11 ‘til 1 – see the website for details. We look forward to seeing you.
Teign Estuary Transition 