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Ain’t no party like a Veg Bag party…

written by Rosie Sullivan on March 16, 2011

With over 600 bags sold,100s of recipes shared, Whitmuir farm visited and many a belly happily filled with seasonal local veg, it’s time to celebrate the successes of the Veg Bag and pass over the gauntlet to new celeriac brains. We want to say a big THANK YOU to all our supporters and invite you to our Veg Bag handover party.

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Get some growing skills

written by Rosie Sullivan on March 7, 2011

Introduction to Growing Your Own Veg with the Allotment and Permaculture Society

9th  March | Kings Building Allotment | 12-2pm
Spring is coming and veg needs to be grown. Not sure where to start? Handily the Allotment Society will be running a workshop in seed propagating and the basics of growing your own veg! Seeds and compost and many a skilled gardener’s mind to pick are all included, just bring some tubs if you want to take some plants back to grow on your windowsill. All free and all welcome!

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Introducing Transition Tips

written by Joseph Farthing on May 31, 2010

Transition Tips Logo

We’re glad to announce the launch of our new Transition Tips emails!

For a while, a lot of you have been asking us offer some tips to reduce your own impact on the environment. We wanted to make sure that what we offered was easy to follow, easy to keep track, and restricted to things that make a real difference, so we took a little while to develop “Transition Tips”.

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How to… make use of nettles

written by Ally Hurčíková on May 26, 2010

Urtica dioica Stinging Nettle -  Schmitz Park
Photo by brewbooks

Hello Transition-ers! I’ve decided to use this space to share some thoughts of mine about how to re-use or simply make use of a wide range of things.

Simply, I’d like to start us talking about ‘how to’ do a variety of useful, wonderful or delicious things. I’m sure there’s a lot we can share. Hopefully this will be the first how to of many on our blog.

Today we’re looking at… “What to do with all those pesky stinging nettles?”

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