Transition Kensal to Kilburn's Page

We have a couple of bags of strong smelling lawn fertiliser to give away at the South Kilburn allotment that was left over from 10 years ago. If interested please email michael dot stuart6 at gmail.com or turn up Wednesday between 2.30 and 4.30

Food group meeting

20^th October 2011

Present: Marjory, Michael (part), Miko, Sanchia

While eating some very nice food….

Queens Park day apple pressing

Agreed we need more ‘talkers’ explaining what it’s about (and this applies to Transition events generally). Other suggestions are to have a map of local fruit trees; have a banner / sign / poster explaining harvesting; having more leaflets out…

Thursday 30^th of June

On Sunday when we checked the bees we found a minor engineering problem in our second hive. The first (swarm) hive has settled in well and nearly covered all the frames with a text book combination of food and brood. However, the second hive of reared black bees came on standard sized National foundation frames. This means that when we put them in our deep brood boxes there was some space underneath. Naturally the bees have gone ahead…

Minutes of food group meeting on Wednesday, 11^th May 2011

held at 8-10pm at 5 Ways meeting room

Present:         Marjory (chair), Heather (minutes), Tom, Nadia, Miko, Ali, Maggie, Archie,

Elaine, Jen, Julienne, Elaine

Apologies:     Michael, Ash, David, Paulette,…

Nettle pesto

Pick only the younger leaves at the tip of the plant until early June (later if you see more young leave coming through). Older leaves are not so tasty. Wash well and remove the tougher stems.

Stinging nettles are tasty and nutritious: 5.5% protein and 2.3% iron.

Ingredients: nettles, oil, nuts, lemon, garlic, salt

You can use Kent cobnuts, brazil nuts, pine nuts, ground almonds or walnuts. We…