Herne Hill Climate Action Network http://www.hernehillcan.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 13 May 2012 10:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Incredible Edible Lambeth – growing veg training days http://www.hernehillcan.org/dates/incredible-edible-lambeth-growing-veg-training-days http://www.hernehillcan.org/dates/incredible-edible-lambeth-growing-veg-training-days#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 10:20:37 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=779 May 25th at Clapham Common by the bandstand and May 26th at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses.

Info here: http://www.incredibleediblelambeth.org/2012/04/19/incredible-edible-lambeth-trainingworkshop-sessions-2012s-2012/

]]> http://www.hernehillcan.org/dates/incredible-edible-lambeth-growing-veg-training-days/feed 0 Invisible Food – lots of events http://www.hernehillcan.org/dates/invisible-food-lots-of-events http://www.hernehillcan.org/dates/invisible-food-lots-of-events#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 10:16:59 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=777 Wild herb meditations: Sunday 20th May 3 – 4.30pm, Myatt’s Fields Park, SE5 9RA
Learn to identify wild spring herbs and flowers, spend some time in nature, go for a walk, be outdoors in warm company, meet some local people and bring all your knowledge, memories and curiosity. The session will include wild herb tea tasting.

On most Invisible Food walks, we focus on identification and discussion of uses of plants. We work on a more cognitive level, enabling you to see your natural environment in a different way, recognising potential food sources in the green spaces around you. In the meditation sessions, we contemplate and observe the plants in a more intuitive way.

In order to welcome some silence and stillness into each session, we will look in depth at one plant, its properties and uses, we will spend some time contemplating the plant and journaling and/or drawing it. No prior experience required, just a willingness to spend some moments in silence as part of an otherwise social experience.

Please book a place at invisiblefood@gmail.com or 07963 446605. Places are limited. Please get in touch with your phone number so we can communicate with you in the event of rain on the day.
Ceri has just participated in a Co-creating with Nature workshop with artist and writer Glennie Kindred and Flower essence maker Sophie Knock at the Chalice Well Gardens at Glastonbury and will be passing on some of that experience during this session.
Street Food workshops: Saturday 26th May 11am – 2pm, Myatt’s Fields Park, SE5 9RA

This month we are cooking our world food with wild food with a central and Eastern European theme. Menu will include some of the below.

May: Central and Eastern Europe

Wild sorrel soup and eggs

  • Nettle souffle
  • Dandelion and elder fritters and hawthorn flower syrup
  • Elderflower and Strawberry jam

Please book a place at invisiblefood@gmail.com or 07963 446605 and get in touch if you want to be involved in planning this event.

Participate more? We need someone to read some East European stories from this amazing book http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Hidden_Tales_From_Eastern_Europe.html?id=aIiTYR8iLEIC. No experience necessary just the confidence to read to a bunch of friendly people.

These events are free.

Donations welcome or buy a poster and tea towel to support the project.

These two events are part of a wider series of workshops and film showings organised by the network Ayanna

We are very proud to participate in this series of workshops to nourish and inspire people involved in community work and social change

See the attached fliers for details of an exciting splash of workshops across London in May and June!

If you enjoy getting messy with paint when banner making at the workshop in Jan, there’s an art workshop with Anna on Tues 22nd May

If you like the singing, there’s singing with Shilpa on Thurs 24th May and again on Tues 12th June.

There’s a Wild food workshops with Ceri on 20th and 26th May and and an exciting film and discussion night on 9th June with Marvi too.

And all the events are FREE!

THANK YOU!!

http://projectdirt.com/events/invisible-food-sunday-special-wild-herb-meditations

http://projectdirt.com/events/time-to-get-messy-art-workshop

http://projectdirt.com/events/ayanna-workshop-karibu-song-time

http://projectdirt.com/events/invisible-food-street-food-workshop-1

http://projectdirt.com/events/ayanna-film-showing-budrus

http://projectdirt.com/events/ayanna-workshop-karibu-song-time-1

Also highly recommended! A song for our time – song writing for everyone!

http://projectdirt.com/events/a-song-for-our-time
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Read this report – WHY DOES CHILDREN’S ENGAGEMENT WITH NATURE MATTER? “Sowing the Seeds” Reconnecting London’s children with nature
‘Foraging for Invisible Food’
‘Local Warming’ – Climate change stories. Invisible Food episode
Upcoming events:
Check out past walks
Seven herb porridge event
Reflections on ‘taking’ at the Garden Museum, October 2011
August monthly walk with Blackberry ice cream and Wild herb jamaican patties
July monthly walk to mark Zero Carbon Britain Day

“The window is now, the sun, the suns of elderflower. All of a sudden it’s everywhere and there’s an abundance of graciousness in the air.” Text messaging project May 26th via web

]]> http://www.hernehillcan.org/dates/invisible-food-lots-of-events/feed 0 Brixton Windmill May Day Recycling Parade and Festival http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/brixton-windmill-may-day-recycling-parade-and-festival http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/brixton-windmill-may-day-recycling-parade-and-festival#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 16:11:06 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=775 Bank Holiday Monday
May 7 2012, 1pm – 6pm
Parade 1pm from outside Brixton Library
Festival 2pm-6pm in Windmill Gardens
More info here

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Come and find the herbs for a seven herb porridge, eaten in Japan for the new year ritual of nanakusa-gayu to invite good luck and longevity for the coming year. It is possible to find all of the original herbs in this country and many of them growing wild. We’ll do our best to find them.

The traditional herbs are:

Water dropwort, Shepherd’s Purse, Cudweed, Chickweed, Nipplewort, Turnip, radish

Free. Places limited. Please contact to book

invisiblefood@gmail.com

Thursday 3rd May 2012 10.30 – 1 Myatt’s Fields Park

If it rains we’ll go to Ceri’s house near the park to cook the dish, if it’s fine, we’ll cook in the park.

Street Food by Invisible Food is a month by month calendar for foraging in an urban environment including what you can find and way of cooking that reflect cultural diversity in London. It’s about world food, community building, and imaginative, holistic connective work.  The book connects both urban spatial awareness and nature awareness and new recipe creation of world-wild food.

http://projectdirt.com/events/invisible-food-midweek-special-wild-herb-meditation

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This will show-case the work of TTB, with displays, talks, practical workshops, culminating with delicious Pakistani food at 6pm, and a screening of the movie Transition 2.0 followed by discussion.

Come and meet some of the people who are making TTB’s exciting projects happen – like Brixton Energy, the Remakery, Brixton Pound, Community Draught Busters… More info on http://www.transitiontownbrixton.org/2012/04/ttb-open-day/

]]> http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/transition-town-brixton-open-day-saturday-1-9pm/feed 0 From Landshare – Raise up to £10,000 for your Community Energy Project http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/from-landshare-raise-up-to-10000-for-your-community-energy-project http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/from-landshare-raise-up-to-10000-for-your-community-energy-project#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:07:16 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=767 On Tuesday 10th April our friends at energyshare are launching their new fund with 8 awards of between £2,500 and £5,000 available to local energy projects. To be in with a chance there are two ways of applying – raise £5k of your own through Peoplefund.it and British Gas and energyshare will match it; or submit an online application to be considered for three lots of £2,500.

Last time around we helped 4 communities realise their renewable energy projects, and between them they are now generating enough energy to power 1,169 houses and earning a projected annual income of £500,000. This year we want to help more groups on their way, so whether you want to raise funds yourself or are looking to support a local community, register your interest on energyshare today.

On Tuesday 10th April our friends at energyshare are launching their new fund with 8 awards of between £2,500 and £5,000 available to local energy projects. To be in with a chance there are two ways of applying – raise £5k of your own through Peoplefund.it and British Gas and energyshare will match it; or submit an online application to be considered for three lots of £2,500.

Last time around we helped 4 communities realise their renewable energy projects, and between them they are now generating enough energy to power 1,169 houses and earning a projected annual income of £500,000. This year we want to help more groups on their way, so whether you want to raise funds yourself or are looking to support a local community, register your interest on energyshare today.

http://www.energyshare.com/community-fund/

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Thursday 8th March, 7.30-9pm
Upstairs at the Crown and Greyhound pub, Dulwich Village

Whether you have an allotment, small garden or just a windowsill, everyone can grow their own salad, herbs or veg.
This hands on, informal workshop run by a Garden Organic Master Gardener will help you get started, plan your planting for the year and you can sow some seeds in a pot to take away.

Local Greens is a not for profit weekly veg bag scheme run by Herne Hill and Dulwich residents. We provide great tasting, seasonal veg from small organic or spray-free farms which are as near to SE London as possible.
www.localgreens.org.uk

The Master Gardener programme is a volunteer led scheme managed by Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity.
www.mastergardeners.org.uk

]]> http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/grow-your-own-veg-a-free-workshop-by-local-greens-and-garden-organic/feed 0 Jubilee Art Competition for Schools Using Recycled Materials‏ http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/jubilee-art-competition-for-schools-using-recycled-materials%e2%80%8f http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/jubilee-art-competition-for-schools-using-recycled-materials%e2%80%8f#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:06:57 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=755 ‘FROM TIP TO SHIP’

WITH START IMAGINING

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Start Imagining is a new programme designed to encourage everyone to get creative at schools, youth centres, libraries, at home – there’s space for imagination everywhere!  The focus is on inventive ‘upcycling’, helping you to transform junk like empty cereal packs and broken plastic beads into fabulous craft, art and stylish, special things.

‘From Tip to Ship’ is the name of the Start Imagining competition. Inspired by HM The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012 school children throughout the UK will have the opportunity to create an extraordinary and visionary model of a boat or ship using reclaimed materials. ‘From Tip to Ship’ closes on 16th April 2012

The winning creations and 5 runner-up entries will form part of a special exhibition to be displayed at the Discover Greenwich centre at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich throughout June. The creators of the winning boat will receive a tour of London, culminating in a special visit to the Old Royal Naval College, plus exclusive art kits provided by the specialist Cumbrian pencil company, Derwent.

For more info on Start Imagining and ‘From Tip to Ship’ visit http://www.startimagining.co.uk

]]> http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/jubilee-art-competition-for-schools-using-recycled-materials%e2%80%8f/feed 0 Start your own food business – a series of three workshops http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/start-your-own-food-business-a-series-of-three-workshops http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/start-your-own-food-business-a-series-of-three-workshops#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:04:38 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=753 Lambeth Green Community Champions have joined forced with the B£ and organised a series of workshops to support anyone who may be considering setting up their own food business, or who may have already started.

Please see the attached link for more details:
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/News/2012/StartYourOwnFoodBusinessFreeWorkshops.htm

]]> http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/start-your-own-food-business-a-series-of-three-workshops/feed 0 Capital Growth News – special funding round, and growing for schools http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/capital-growth-news-special-funding-round-and-growing-for-schools http://www.hernehillcan.org/home/capital-growth-news-special-funding-round-and-growing-for-schools#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:02:46 +0000 admin http://www.hernehillcan.org/?p=750 Special grants round launched

We have small grants of up to £300 to help growing projects take forward special projects at your growing space. You are only eligible to apply if you have NOT received funding from us before and your space will need to be registered with Capital Growth in order to apply for this funding (if it’s not already).

In particular, we are looking for applications for items that will help groups sustain their activities and projects. This could be:

  • items to help you increase the amount of food grown at your site.
  • items to help you grow food to sell or sell surplus.
  • items or activities to help you increase the amount of volunteers involved at your site (we will not fund promotional materials).

Your application needs to be completed and submitted by Monday, 12th March at midday.

To apply visit http://www.capitalgrowth.org/apply/
Schools Training at The Regent’s Park

We have some wonderful ‘Growing in Schools Teacher Training’ sessions starting at our Regent’s Park training site.  The first session is on Friday, 2nd March from 10.30am-3pm with 3 other sessions being held on the following three Fridays.  Discounts available for Capital Growth spaces and a limited number of free places for people registering with Grow for Gold. For more info and to book please email training@capitalgrowth.org.

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