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

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

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.…

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,…

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…

Minutes of Buildings and Energy Group         Thursday 16^th 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: …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…