Sustainable Crediton newsletter issue 135, May 2022

Welcome to your newsletter.

It's a bit of a call to action this month: the Community Allotment is becoming well established and will benefit from more people becoming involved. We have inherited a really good set up, with two sheds, water butts, delineated beds etc. It has the potential to become a great community asset on a number of levels. Read all about it, and come along if you can.

The Larder is going really well, supported by a substantial group of volunteers; but of course the more the better in order to spread the load.

We now have a tree nursery, where we recently planted our first trees pending finding them permanent homes, probably next winter.

All in all, plenty of reasons to enjoy a Jubilee treat (see this month's recipe), and to fly our flag in celebration!

Best wishes to all,

John Craythorne, newsletter editor, on behalf of Core Group

Dates for your Diary
16th May	Crediton COP26 Follow-up Group: change of venue this month
18th May	Pollinator Group Working Party
21st May	Crediton Community Allotment Open Day
28th May	Pollinator Group Working Party
29th May	Sandford Well-Being Fayre
18th June	Pollinator Group Working Party
29th June	Pollinator Group Working Party
2nd July	Peoples Park Wildlife Garden Working Party
10th September	People's Park Wildlife Area Working Party
24th September	Sustainable Crediton's Green Fair in the Square
15th October	Peoples Park Wildlife Area Working Party
29th October	Sustainable Crediton's Forum for the Future and Annual General Meeting

Regular Events
Crediton in and Around Craft Inn Friday Sustainable Crediton Core Group Meetings Crediton Work Club Crediton Farmers Market Crediton Garden Club Sustainable Crediton Pollinator Group Meetings The Bookery, Crediton Spinning Circle Turning Tides Project Exeter Community Energy: Drop-in Energy Advice Crediton Arts Centre The Boniface Allotments Association Family History Research Knitwits

News Highlights

Community Allotment Team Day: 23 April and upcoming Open Day: 21st May

We had a great Team Day up on the allotment at Barnfield on April 23rd. Thanks to Tesco for refreshments and Crediton Coffee for the wonderful coffee that kept us fuelled. The volunteers got a chance to say goodbye to Katheryn Hope from Westbank who did such a wonderful job of establishing the Comm ...

Great success for Community Larder!

I think it's fair to say that the food larder has taken off in a way none of us could have envisaged! We are regularly collecting from Tescos (Wellparks and Express), Stevie Bs, The Greenhouse, Four Seasons and The Plant Shed in Copplestone. It is stunning how much food - which would otherwise eit ...

Tree nursery for Sustainable Crediton

Thanks to farmer Andy Gray at Elston near Copplestone, who has very generously given us the use of plot of land to use as a tree nursery. This means we now have somewhere to grow on seedlings for a year or two until we can find them a permanent home. The best time to move seedlings into the nurse ...

Sustainable Crediton Flying the Flag

We are delighted to be supporting the High Street Flags project by commissioning our very own flag. It will appear in due course for the summer months. We would like to offer a big thanks to Caroline Ward and Charlotte Turner for their creativity and hard work in creating our flag. ...

How Green are your Finances?

Here's a link to a recent edition of Radio 4's Costing the Earth. It's an easy to listen to and interesting commentary on how we can switch our money and savings away from banks and corporations which have interests in climate damaging activities. Definitely worth half an hour of your time, then ...

Wildlife Wardens Update

Further to the news item in our last newsletter We have had some excellent candidates for the position of Wildlife Wardens Coordinator. A shortlist has been made and interviews are happening shortly. The pilot projects should be starting soon. Keep an eye on future newsletters for further develop ...

Recipe: A Royal Jubilee Trifle!

This is June's recipe appearing early, to make sure it catches the Jubilee. Going to a party? Make sure your are really popular by taking this along! This trifle was inspired by a recipe from Frederic Nutt, a famous confectioner in Georgian England. It consists of three indulgent layers: sponge ca ...

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