Josie Orrel-Pearse's Page

Bring your spare seeds - vegetable or flower - to the library in Queens Park or to our stall on Salusbury Road (next to the Library) on Saturday February 26th  between 10–12 in the morning. There's also box to leave seeds in the library for the next fortnight, on the Transition Town bookshelf. You'll be able to  swap your spare seeds with ours at the stall. So, bring sunflowers and go home with pak choi or swap poppies for pumpkins. If you don't have any seeds of your own, come anyway and take…See More

We've got a list of potential sites to build community allotments in the next year or so.On Sunday 17th October we will be meeting up to cycle around the area and visit some of these sites so we can see if they are suitable and discuss what needs to be done to make it a reality... and to get out together on our bikes!We'll meet up at 12pm at the 5-ways community allotment that we helped build this year on Winchester Avenue at Weston House.If you arrive late nad want to meet up with the ride…See More

We're getting organised and excited now planning our first Harvest Festival. The action all takes place at Salusbury Primary School - we will be hosting the event together with Friends of Salusbury. The daytime festival is free and open to all.From 12 -4 there will be loads of events covering everything from cooking workshops (learn to make jam, bread and vegetable musical instruments), articistic workshops, cycle training, story telling and much more...Please bring with you...:Bikes - if you…See More

After the day's festival of workshops we will be hosting a Harvest Supper party in the evening at Salusbury Primary School. Supper cooked as far as possble from local produce and by Spice Caravan. After supper and surprise events there will be dancing to the 21st Century Barndance of CutAShine (http://www.cutashine.co.uk/)... Its going to be a cracking evening and a great chance to celebrate all that we've been up to over our first year.Tickets £10 in…See More

September's Transition film at the Lexi will be at 8.30pm on 7th Sept - showing No Impact ManA guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year; turns off the electricity; stops making garbage; gives up TV, taxis and take-out; becomes a walking, bicycling, composting, tree-hugging, polar bear-saving, local food-eating citizen – all the while taking his baby daughter and caffeine-loving, retail-obsessed television-addicted wife along with him…Check out…See More

This is our regular meeting to discuss the Transition Handbook. Takes place in Kilburn Library in Salusbury Road. New members always welcome to come and join in the discussion.

Our first bookclub meeting takes place on 22nd Feb at the Kilburn library on Salusbury Road.At this first meeting we will be focusing on the first two chapters of the Transition Handbook.Chapter 1 - peak oil and climate change, the two great oversights of our timesChapter 2 - the view from the mountain-top - ways forward, why energy descent?All are welcome to come along - we hope this will be a very informal and accessible way to discuss and learn about the Transition concept in a friendly and…See More