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Sweet Chestnut Foraging

If you travel through Hyde Park there is a beautiful avenue of Sweet Chestnut trees (about a hundred) just north of the Rotten Row cycle path and just south of the Serpentine. They are ripe and ready. Take leather gloves for plucking them off the tree and roll the husks under foot to get the nuts out. I got a carrier bag full on Tuesday. The only other pickers were some Italian building workers in their lunch hour and the Serpentine geese are foraging too. Follow the geese for the trees where… Continue

Added by David Young on September 30, 2011 at 13:57 — 3 Comments

Local bee keeper looking for a large garden or similar

I am a Kensal Rise beekeeper, looking for somewhere suitable to site some hives - an overgrown garden with direct access would be ideal - in return for delicious local organic honey !

 

Anyone interested - please would you e mail me ?

 

Thank you

 

Added by Adrian Braimer Jones on September 28, 2011 at 0:12 — 6 Comments

Apple cake recipe

This is the recipe of an apple cake I baked on Thursday for Kensal to Kilburn TT public meeting. 

Ingredients:
-200 gr to 320 gr of peeled and deseeded apples cut in small pieces…
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Added by Amandine Alexandre-Hughes on September 24, 2011 at 18:27 — No Comments

Benefit film night this Friday to save Brent Libraries

Dear All, this is my first blog so I hope it works. A friend of mine supports the campaign to stop Brent from closing local libraries, which is of course dear to the hearts of Transition Folk. We seem to use them a lot, both as borrowers and as venues, so I hope that you will come along to the film if you can. I'll be there and it would be great to meet some of you afterwards for a drink. Let me know if you plan to come and we can wear distinctive clothing, or something.…

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Added by Matthew Sharp on September 20, 2011 at 20:56 — No Comments

Tiverton Green Regeneration

Tiverton Rejuvenation: After 26 years of neglect, there is now a plan to renovate the old tennis courts on Tiverton Green. The new facilities will lift the Green and give a real boost to the area. They will give your children somewhere safe to ride their bikes and skate, play football, basketball,…

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Added by George Latham on August 31, 2011 at 21:16 — No Comments

Learning to cycle on Roads...

If you are 50 plus and have always dreamed of being able to cycle
confidently on the road
London cycling campaign are funding a course at the Castlehaven Road
Centre in Camden Town which consists of 5 weekly sessions starting in
August. The cost is £10 to attend the course .
Telephone 0207 234 9317 to book a place
Spaces are still availalble

Added by George Latham on August 4, 2011 at 10:58 — No Comments

Initiating Group July Minutes

Initiating Group minutes – Transition Kensal to Kilburn 18/07/11

 

Present – Elaine Henderson, Careen Hertzog, Michael Stuart, Chris Wells, John Smith, George Latham

 

  • John and Miko have both been talking about setting up a food box delivery scheme.  Miko is taking this forward and has set up a questionnaire on the website.
  • Chris was at the Transition Network conference in Liverpool at the beginning of July and fed back on some of his insights/…
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Added by George Latham on July 28, 2011 at 21:06 — No Comments

Food Group July meeting minutes

FOOD GROUP: MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON:

TUESDAY 19 July at William Dunbar/Saville Meeting Room

Chair: Michael, Minutes: Jen and Marjory

Present: Michael, Marjory, Jen, Heather, Miko and Molly

Apologies: Ash and sorry there may have been others but I didnt catch who they were

Guest Speaker: Catherine from River of Flowers

River of Flowers

Guiding Ethos:

. Plant to encourage pollinators which are vital in pollinating food

. Grow flowers, both…

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Added by George Latham on July 28, 2011 at 17:56 — No Comments

Free clean jam jars

In jam-making mode?

 

Lots of lovely clean jam jars, with lids, on offer.

Added by Nicola Davies Howes on July 24, 2011 at 10:27 — 1 Comment

Transition Streets... making it really local...

This is the website for Transition Streets - started in Totnes: http://www.transitiontogether.org.uk/

But I liked hearing how one Transition Street group got on... I've copied and pasted from the website below:

 

Jo explains how her group went from strength to strength

The TTT leaflet fell through my door one morning in mid March 2010.  It was…

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Added by George Latham on July 21, 2011 at 19:11 — No Comments

Initiating Group June Meeting minutes

Initiating Group Meeting Minutes – 28/6/11

 

Present – Careen, David, Nadezhda, Michael, Elaine, Viv

Apologies – Chris and John

 

  • We discussed venues for the AGM.  We haven’t been able to arrange a date and film through the Lexi.  Other venues discussed were the Tin Tabernacle, The Constitution Club, St Anne’s Church and the Paradise Pub.  The Tin Tabernacle is a possible future venue, but we haven’t been able to arrange this in time.  Father Fergus…
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Added by George Latham on July 4, 2011 at 21:27 — No Comments

Bees in the cemetery update 30 June11

 

Thursday 30th 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…

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Added by Transition Kensal to Kilburn on July 3, 2011 at 18:30 — 1 Comment

Brent Council's Green Charter

Brent Council has just launched a consultation on this year's Green Charter (my italics). The consultation period runs until the 4th of August and details can be found at the following snappily-titled url: http://www.bmgresearch.co.uk/brent/KMS/dmart.aspx?NoIP=1&strTab=PublicDMart&filter_Status=1.

I expect you'll be able to pick up a copy at the next area…

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Added by Colin George on July 1, 2011 at 9:53 — No Comments

June Buildings and Energy Group meeting minutes

Minutes of Buildings and Energy Group         Thursday 16th June  8-10pm                  20 Hopefield Avenue

 

Present:   Nick Hartley (hosting), Sarah Nicholl (from Belsize TT), Phil Leask, Siobhan Cross, Marina V (post-graduate Environmental Technologies student), Alex Groszek (Trainee Architect).

Apology for absence:   Tom Wright

 

Our 3rd meeting.

 

Alex mentioned some very useful websites: …

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Added by George Latham on June 22, 2011 at 19:16 — No Comments

June Food Group meeting minutes

Food Group meeting June 15th 2011

 

Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn Present: Heather, John S, Maggie, Marjory, Matthew, Michael, Miko, Sanchia, Taaliba

 

Veg box scheme

John presented his idea of getting veg delivered by a farmer from within 30-40 miles, volunteers breaking the delivery down and either a collect or simple delivery. Pointed to Stoke Newington as a success (600 customers) and suggested South…

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Added by George Latham on June 20, 2011 at 18:07 — No Comments

veg box notes

Hi All,

 

Thought I'd put up some veg box notes about what I've found out and who I've talked to so far...





SIMILAR SCHEMES



http://www.growingcommunities.org/

not-for-profit (? 3-5 full time + some part time paid + lots volunteers)

been around 10…

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Added by miko adam-kando on June 16, 2011 at 14:35 — No Comments

Offers: Seven medium-sized bags of topsoil

After a hearty weekend of gardening, my downstairs neighbour is now left with about seven medium-sized recycling bags filled with topsoil.

 

It's up for grabs but bear in mind it will need a bit of tender loving care and some mixing with manure before it'll be good to use.

 

If anyone's interested, it's available for immediate collection from Kilburn (but you must have your own transport).

 

Get in touch with me if you'd like to have…

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Added by Chris Wells on June 1, 2011 at 16:58 — 3 Comments

Manufacturing skills and facilities preservation project

Hi all,

 

I wanted to ask you about an idea I've had about what to do with a diminishing trade that I think has a potential role to play in reviving the local skills and economy.  There are some manufacturing premises in the area, producing scientific equipment that for over 30 years has been exported to companies large and small around the world.

 

Essentially my idea is to find local apprentices that would be interested in training at the premises (possibly…

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Added by Alexandra Groszek on May 24, 2011 at 0:25 — No Comments

Initiating Group meeting minutes – Mon 16th May 2011

Initiating Group meeting minutes – Mon 16th May 2011

 

Attending: Careen Hertzog, Elaine Henderson, Nadezhda Rojas, Chris Wells, John Smith, George Latham, Michael Stuart.

  • Firstly with thanks to David Young, who is going to step down from the Initiating Group for the moment in order to concentrate on the BeeKeeping Group and the 5-ways community allotment.
  • John is considering setting up a vegetable box scheme in the Carlton Vale area. He has…
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Added by George Latham on May 23, 2011 at 16:28 — No Comments

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