Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 102

Welcome once again to our newsletter. Spring is in full swing, so it's sleeting outside my window right now!

Welcome especially to our new members who have subscribed to the newsletter either at our street stall or at our lovely seed share event, both in March.

It's our Annual General Meeting on the 8th of May: hooray! I hear you cry. See under Dates for your Diary for details. We will keep the business part of the meeting as short and to the point as possible, then there will be time for a question and answer session and for you to raise any relevant matters of interest relating to what we do. Do come along - cake is a possibility.

Also under Dates for your Diary you will find the launch event on 15th May, for our bee project: come along and find out more about this important new initiative.

And a challenge especially for the men: dig out those unloved but very wearable clothes from the back of your cupboards and bring them along to the Clothes Swap on 1st June.

Best wishes to all,

John Craythorne, newsletter editor - on behalf of Sustainable Crediton


Dates for your Diary
9th April

Food Group Planning Meeting

20th April

Absolute Beginners' Bike Ride in Crediton!

25th April

Crediton Repair Cafe

2nd May

Chatterbox social evening

8th May

Sustainable Crediton Annual General Meeting

15th May

Crediton Bee Project - Launch Event

18th May

Crediton Repair Cafe

1st June

Sustainable Crediton's Clothes Swap

2nd June

Sustainable Crediton at Picnic in the Park

15th June

Crediton Repair Cafe

Regular Events
In case you missed it...
4th March

Review of Dr Cathy Horsley: Bumblebees and their conservation

Thanks to everyone who came along and made this event such a success. It was almost standing room o ...

11th March

Review of Woodland and Hedgerow Work Party 5/2019

Just three of us worked with handtools in lovely conditions to be outside. We continued laying the ...

16th March

Review of Share, Grow, Eat! Sustainable Crediton Seed Share

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Seed Share, Share Grow, Eat, on 16 March. It was our bu ...

25th March

Review of Woodland and Hedgerow Work Party 6/2019

Six of us attended the final session of the season and worked with handtools laying the hedge at th ...

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News Highlights

Absolute Beginners' Bike Ride in Crediton!

Saturday, April 20th, 10am, Crediton Town Square Would you like to get out on your bike, but need a bit of confidence and encouragement? Not sure about riding on roads in town? Fancy a social ride to get you out on your bike? A new ride is starting in April for people who have a bike, but need so ...

Extinction Rebellion: International Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion is planning an International Rebellion, starting on 15 April. There will be major actions taking place in London. Follow the links to find out more or if you are interested in taking part. There is an active group based in Exeter / the South West, which can be found on Faceboo ...

Update: Divert Excess Solar Energy to heat Your Hot Water

Five years ago I installed an Intelligent Immersion solar diverter. This small piece of kit diverts any excess PV energy which would have been exported to the grid into our immersion tank, thereby creating hot water. Here is the original article about the piece of kit. The unit has been absolutel ...

Coppicing finished after a successful winter season.

The past six months has seen the Woodland and Hedgerow Group working at Moor Farm near Morchard Bishop. We have been coppicing a piece of previously coppiced native woodland which had become overgrown with both hazel and undergrowth. Over the last 6 months we have cleared much of the bramblely unde ...

April's Recipe: Rustic Tomato Sauce

This is especially good with grilled fish or cheese dishes. Ingredients 1 small onion 2 cloves garlic 450gm tin chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp local rapeseed oil 1 dsp local cider vinegar 1 tsp brown sugar Ground black pepper Method: Finely chop onion with garlic and cook gently for 5 minutes in ...


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