£1000 available for Kensal to Kilburn community project ideas

Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn (TTKK) is inviting local residents to take part in a competition this spring.

Our volunteer organisation has created three grants - one £500 grant and two £250 grants.

To enter the competition, participants need to fulfill the following criteria :

- live in the Kensal to Kilburn area,

- submit an idea for a community project that would benefit residents…

This is about Kilburn by Doreen Massey, a Kilburnite who’s just died and was an author of the Kilburn Manifesto about neoliberalism.

https://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/geog/021/001/massey.pdf ;…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cg3xy

Some pics from the Film Night on Charteris Street.  Despite the fears of a rain soaked evening, the rain managed to stay away all evening. Thanks to all that came and joined us!

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Some pictures below of wine making in NW6 this weekend. Over 100kg were picked from local gardens, which will hopefully be magically transformed in to a wonderful local wine. Look out for a street party in a few months time once the wine is ready.…

Pictures from the big dig at Queens Park Allotment

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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…

MINUTES  OF  FOOD  GROUP  MEETING  WEDNESDAY  5  APRIL

Attended: Nadia, Ali, Michael, George, Molly, Sanchia, Tom, Jen, Heather, Marjory

The group enjoyed a wonderful pot luck supper!

1. Food Growing Sites

William Dunbar/Saville House

Michael reported that the pop up Shop 24 at Peel Precinct had been in contact with local people who are interested in resurrecting the garden.  Everyone was very pleased to meet Ali Awes who is…

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Jennifer Rea has written up some brillaintly comprehensive minutes of March's Food Group meeting - attached. Quite a few action points to come back to at our next meeting on April 5th...

http://www.incredibleediblelambeth.org/

Website just launched...

http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/E56B19D5-5005-4214-BED0-A3771FB9133A/0/RobHopkings.pdf

Good to see NEF on Newsnight last night - making the case for prosperity without growth...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25

Starts at 34:10