Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 6
Hello Everyone
Autumn is on the doorstep and the season of plenty
has arrived in the gardens and on the allotments. Our newsletter
this month has somewhat of a foody theme as a result.
We would like to draw your attention to the Harvest Market
being organised by our members in Town Square in a couple of weeks.
At the market you can sell your excess produce or buy from other
Sustainable Crediton members. In fact we have included in this
issue some seasonal
recipes for gluts, two of which you could turn into jams and
chutneys to sell at the market to make a little income or just make
to enjoy over the winter!
In October the Food and
Farming Group are also organising a Big Seasonal Supper at the Boniface to
celebrate all the abundance that our Devon farms, allotments,
smallholdings, gardens and hedgerows have to offer us at this time
of year.
If you would like to join us at the supper, and everyone is most
welcome, please see details of how to book below. The cost is just
£7 for 3 courses! Yum!!
Paula Mossman, Editor.
PS: The PDF version of this newsletter is available here.
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| News Highlights |
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After a short period of inactivity WEN are gearing up for a
lively autumn
Well, we have been a bit dormant of late so we are kickstarting
the WEN autumn programme of events with a social
evening.
The next annual WEN Local Groups' Retreat
follows the Culture Kitchen event on the Saturday
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More than 1.8 million people in Pakistan have been helped by DEC
funds since floods swept the country in July and August of 2010
following the worst monsoon rains in the country's history.
Donors gave £71m to the DEC's 2010 Pakistan Floods Appeal after more than 18
million people were affect ... | |
Glaciers are not just ice: they are a lifeline, they
provide water to 2 billion people, and we need to protect
them.
Pushing his body through epic cold-water swims, Lewis Pugh wants
to draw attention to our global climate. At the end of May 2010 he
swam 1 kilometer across Pumori, a meltwate ... | |
In July, Laura and I cycled from Barnstaple to Pymouth,
with one overnight stop in Okehampton.
We took our cycles to Barnstaple on the Tarka Line. The
first part was along the Tarka Trail, so was very easy going.
Then came a somewhat hillly section along minor roads to our B
& B in Okeh ... | |
It would be great to hear about what SC supporters have been up
to by way of green holidays. Why not write in and tell us
about your holiday?
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Recycling Plastics - Please help us do MORE!!
We know that the overuse of plastics in food packaging and the
fact that much plastic packaging is currently not collected by the
MDDC
recycling lorries, is a subject that causes a lot of anger and
frustration among local households who are comm ... |
There is a lot of interest in "rent a roof " solar panels
schemes at the moment. We have reproduced part of an article by
Cathy Debenham with kind permission from Yougen, an independent
provider of information about renewable energy. There are a number
of links embedded in the article which lead to ... |
We have reproduced part of an article by Cathy Debenham
with kind permission from Yougen, an independent provider of
information about renewable energy.
Free Solar panels : Is it too good to be true?
Solar PV panels worth £10-12,000, installed on
your roof, free of charge - it sounds too good to ... |
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but also the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful, perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
Catherine Pulsif