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Comment by Jennifer Rea on June 24, 2011 at 20:38

Hi all. We have 2 waterbutts going spare if anyone wants them. They're in our old house and the people there are moving out next week so they need to be picked up on Tuesday. We can try and save them and store them in our flat but we have very little room to keep them that long. Let me know asap if you want them.

Comment by marjory fraser on June 19, 2011 at 11:11

William Saville/Dunbar Garden

We want to build a new composting area at the garden as the existing one is inaccessible. Has anyone got any spare:

TIMBER OR PALLETS 

that could be recycled into a compost heap? Or know of anywhere we could obtain some?

Please contact me on marjory.fraser@ntlworld.com thanks Marjory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by Transition Kensal to Kilburn on June 6, 2011 at 18:11

I love some of the ideas such as linking up with people who cook for the Farmers Market, doing more with Cricklewood Homeless Concern or with Food Waste charity Fareshare, creating our own produce and reconnecting with traditional local recipe.

Comment by marjory fraser on June 6, 2011 at 18:08

 Comment by marjory fraser just now WILLIAM DUNBAR/SAVILLE GARDEN

Delete Comment I spent the first 30 minutes on Saturday on my own thinking no one was going to turn up - then 6 people came! Two people are going to do some watering and we have an offer of chilli and tomato seedlings. Half of another bed was dug over and we plan to put in a wigwam of beans and some sunflowers. Despite the harsh conditions everything seems to be thriving. The cherries and redcurrants are nearly ripe. There is a large amount of horseradish. I have taken some home to try and pickle it. Anyone any idea whats the best way to do this? I will be at the garden

Comment by Molly Fletcher on June 1, 2011 at 22:46

What about making toffee apples - using British sugar of course!

Comment by Viv Stein on June 1, 2011 at 22:11

If you can get people on board to do cooking/cider or juice-making with some of the fruit that would be great.

One of the most rewarding things Mapesbury group did was working with Cricklewood Homeless Concern to make and sell apple pies to raise funds for their charity.

How about creating our own produce for sale at Farmers' Market, harvest events, and what about offering/selling to community groups for their events, or selling at Local Area Forum meetings or other Council-related meetings, where local food should be on offer.  Also suggest more links are made with Brent Sustainability Forum

http://sustainablebrent.org.uk/

who are supposedly focussing on food as one of their key themes.   I have tried to push community food projects as part of Brent's climate change strategy, so would be good for TK2K (and hopefully Transition Willesden) to develop this  (I hope that Transition Willesden will be able to extend fruit picking to this area if it takes off and if that is consensus.  Would make sense as we have the know how in place - maybe could link up with Mapesbury folks too as a joint venture...)

Re selling to restaurants/cafes how about linking in (if it happens) with idea of collecting food waste, using the trailer bikes when you deliver?

 

Viv

Comment by Molly Fletcher on June 1, 2011 at 21:54

When we made nettle pesto at the farmers market, there was a lot of interest, so I think it's definitely a good place to shift our harvest.

My ideas for using 1000kg fruit in September:

apple sauce/puree to go with pork or meat. Pear jam, pear chutney, pear juice or pear cider. How about asking stall holders at the farmers market if they'd like to use/buy our locally picked fruit in their cakes, jams chutney, sausages or pies?

Comment by Chris Wells on June 1, 2011 at 18:31

I won't be able to make it to the food group meeting but I just wanted to add a couple of thoughts in response to the email alert that was sent out earlier today about what to do with 1,000 kg of apples.

1. If we're looking for things to make with all the apples, my first thought was to say we should make something that's quintessentially of Kilburn and Kensal Green. i.e. something that always was traditionally made in the area and that we could revive. It would be nice to become known again as "Kensal green - home of the Transition Apple and Plum Tart" or "the only place in London you can get a real County Kilburn Cider"
2. That led me on to wonder how we'd find out what that recipe might actually be... which reminded me that some other TTs actually speak to older members of the community to figure out how people used to do things before fossil fuels made everything so easy.

So my recommendations to the group would be to "reconnect with the elders" and ask them what they used to do with all the excess apples, back when more of the area was taken over by orchards.

Or another approach would be to speak to people who migrated (or whose parents migrated) to the UK and who might have some fabulous recipes we could adapt to the local breeds of apple. 

Comment by marjory fraser on May 30, 2011 at 10:47

Comment by marjory fraser 1 second ago

WILLIAM DUNBAR/SAVILLE HOUSE ALLOTMENT

CARLTON VALE, Entrance next throught the green gate next to the car park beside the Kilburn Baptist Church.

Delete Comment The three planted up beds continue to thrive despite the wind and  lack of rain. So far the garden has proved high on caretaker involvement and low on resident involvement. The caretakers have now planted up potatoes and onions and have requested okra and chilli. There is no end to their enthusiasm! We picked the rhubarb some of which became rhubarb and ginger chutney. The resident raspberries, as opposed to the newly planted, are ripe and the red currants about to be ripe. Its got to be one of life's happy accidents that the overflow pipe from the caretakers premises runs straight into the vine! Looks like we shall have a good crop of grapes this year! I shall be at the garden this and every Wednesday from about 3.30-4.30. I will also be there this coming Saturday 4 June between 12 and 2.00 if anyone would like to come along.   I realise that this clashes with the London Green Fair and some of you will have divided loyalties!

Comment by Transition Kensal to Kilburn on May 12, 2011 at 20:22

I think that Lloyd Fothergill is organising a big lunch for Charteris Road.  That is the only one that I am aware of for this year.  The Lexi are not having a Big Lunch this year, and 5ways are thinking of doing something later in the summer.

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