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/…

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…

Wow! Great to see this in mainstream media! Has anyone got an idea where we could do this locally?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audioslideshow/2011/jul/21/primrose-organics-audio-slideshow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening

In jam-making mode?

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

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…

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…

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…

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…