Local food security - local

food and growing

 

Local allotment produceWe are a very active bunch of folks with a lot of projects taking shape. 'Fruity Corners' has seen the planting of the first fruit trees. Click here for more info. There is a 'Garden Share' project for shared food growing space - click here.

Tony, Cathy and Tim are forging ahead with the food preserving project - see here for their latest flyer and click here for their latest meeting notes. The 'swap stall' at the launch event was hugely succesfull and the group want to record thanks Dewlay Cheesemakers from Garstang and Lakeland, from Windermere for their generous donations of items.

 

We're planning a local food fortnight at the end of sept 2010 - it needs lots of practical energy - please see 'whats on' page for info on our next meeting and come and join us . . . our meetings are open to all those interested. There are lots of potential projects to be involved in if you want - but you can just come and see what is happening.

 

All the notes of previous meetings are listed at the bottom of this page. Keep scrolling . . . .

 

WHY bother???

Just pause and think for a moment about the food you've eaten today - this week . . . . . . how much of it was produced anywhere near Lancaster? How much was shipped, flown and trucked in from around europe and around the world?

 

Not a very secure situation at all given finite fossil fuel reserves . . . .rising fuel costs and not very good news for CO2 emissions either.

 

The more local food we buy and eat - and the less dependent that production is on fossil fuel - the more local resilience we, as a community, will have when fuel shocks hit the system. This is in everyones interest - producers and consumers.

 

For more info on why eating local matters please click here - there is also the start of a list of local organic producers. We need more contacts for this list so please send them along to info@transitioncitylancaster.org and please do use your purse power to build up local food security.

 

The events page lists the next date and time for our food group meetings . . . please do give us a call, drop us a line or just come along . . you will be very welcome.

 

TheTCL food group has a number of projects already that need your involvement

Local solutions must include: supporting our local and more sustainable producers; urban edible gardens; community supported agriculture; more allotments; community allotments; planting fruit and nut trees, leasing land from local farmers; and garden sharing.

  1. Fruity Corners is all about identifying areas and planting edible fruit and nut trees. Full details of the project and how to get involved are available here.
  2. Local Garden Share Scheme this is all about people with land that needs cultivating comming together with prospective gardeners to bring more people to the possibility of producing their own fruit and veg. Full details and information on getting involved are now online here.

See the wonderful Action Plan for creating an Edible Urban Landscape that was drawn up in the meeting and completed by Mike Hallam - thanks Mike

It's in PDF format here

We expect to be announcing details of local variety Apple tree purchasing and planting scheme very soon - so keep looking.

a bit of biodiversity in bloom by Iris Woodford

Do join us at the next meeting. Details on the What's On page

Food - Web Resources/links page

 

Meeting Notes

food notes July 12th

food notes May 10th

food notes 12 April 2010

food notes 15 March 2010

food notes 25 Jan 2010

food notes 23 Nov

food notes 26 Oct

food notes 14th Sept

food Notes Aug

food notes 27th July

food notes 6th July

food notes 16th June

food notes 18th May

 

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