Buckland Food Growers press release

Buckland Food Growers Ltd (B.F.G.), based at the National Trust’s Buckland Abbey, near Yelverton, have been working hard to set the roots of their project since beginning work on it last spring. Now with just under a hectare of land which has been on lease from the National Trust since January, the growing and rearing of produce is underway in earnest.

GrowTavi will visit the BFG at Buckland Abbey

The next GrowTavi will be on Tuesday 5th April 2011 at 2pm. The venue will be Buckland Abbey. Guestspeakers will include organic specialist Tom Petherick. There will also be a chance to tour the new work that the Buckland Food Group are doing with the National Trust….veg, pigs, fruit….(cider, we hope!!)

Friends of the Earth South West Regional Gathering

Come along to a Friends of the Earth South West Regional Gathering. Learn or brush up on campaigning skills, find out how you can take action locally, nationally and internationally on a range of issues such as climate change, waste & resource use and the local to international food supply chain.

Composting ‘guru’ at GrowTavi open forum

Happy New Year and welcome to 2011!

Westden, The Tavistock & Villages (TaVi) Development Forum and the Transition Tavistock Food Group are pleased to announce the fourth GrowTavi Open Forum event. Tuesday 11th January 2011, between 2-4pm at The Wharf Arts Centre, Tavistock.

Stock up your drinks for Christmas!

A Christmas grand bottle auction in aid of the Friends of the Tavistock Music and Arts Festival in association with the Friends of the Wharf will be held at the Wharf, Tavistock Monday 13th December 2010.

Vote to get better broadband access

The Race to get improvement has finished for Two Lucky Telephone Exchanges. There are 3 Telephone Exchanges left for selection. To get considered there must be at least 1000 Votes. The race is to get these 1000 Votes as soon as possible. For more information and to vote see: http://www.tavistock-devon.org.uk/

A big thank you…

A big THANK YOU to all the students, teachers, governors, parents and community members who helped out on our project at Tavistock College this weekend. Photos and more details to follow shortly…

WynnAlice aka Transition Network’s Steph Bradley, invites you to join her this spring and summer on a journey around the UK

A Transition Tale. Once, upon our times, in a town that was not too big and not too small, where Rob of Great Renown has settled to share his vision of a transition future, there lived a storyteller who decided she wanted to create a collection of Transition Tales.

10:10:10 – A global day of doing

10:10:10 – A global day of doing. 10 October 2010.

The Sky is Falling

“The Sky is Falling!”
Henny Penny calls. An acorn has just landed on her head and, panicking, she hurries of to warn all her friends of the impending doom. The beginning of this well known children’s story has passed into the English language as indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. There are some that believe the news of recent years about global warming and climate change and how it will effect peoples around the world is just one such mistaken belief. They deny it is happening and even if it is, we had nothing to do with it and couldn’t change things even if we wanted to.

The Big Lunch 2010

At noon on Sunday, we braved the swirling mist and pitched the first tarpaulin on the banked grass in Bannawell Street Park ready for our Big Lunch 2010. Armed with local homemade or Fairtrade food, an assortment of games and stubborn optimism we laid out our fare. It was great to see the first of our neighbours coming around the corner handling their hamper up the hill. Before long we had around thirty people lunching on a giant patchwork of picnic blankets. Children played freely and safely on the recreation equipment whilst others adventured down the stream bisecting the park. Our star guest finally showed up, parting the clouds and turning the afternoon into a perfect little community event.

Big Lunch 2010 – this Sunday….

Big Lunch 2010 – Sunday 18th July, 1-5pm, Bannawell Street Park, Tavistock, Devon

Community Project Officer wanted for CCD

COMMUNITY PROJECT OFFICER (LOCAL FOOD) 4 days (29 hours) per week Fixed Term Contract to Sept 2012 Salary £22,001 – £22,221 pro rata + benefits (pension, flexi-time, 25 days holiday pro rata)

Change your world from Sustrans

Take a walk. Get on your bike. Choose the bus or train. Pledge a journey and let’s see how many times we can get around the world by 4 July. Join in Change Your World. Make a journey by foot, bike or public transport and help us clock up enough miles to complete our virtual trip around the world. Show your support by pledging one of your journeys – then tell Government they must act too.

38 Degrees: people, power, change

38 Degrees: people, power, change.

A law for the Earth

Two distinguished British barristers are campaigning for changes to the global legal system, which would see greater environmental protection and justice for those affected by climate change. Positive News.

Tavistock Town Council remove their support for TaVi

I have just heard that Tavistock Town Council have removed their support for the Tavistock & Villages Development Forum (TaVi). The TaVi committee provides vital funds to third sector organisations like Horrabridge Youth Club and Tavistock Rugby Club and also hosts a monthly Open Forum for Tavistock and the surrounding villages to be able to air their concerns and plan for the future together.

New website for the Tavistock Peace Action Group

New website for the Tavistock Peace Action Group.

Buckland Abbey Community Garden Meeting

Interested in growing your own food? Would you like to put something back into the local community? If yes, then come along to the Community Garden meeting at Buckland Abbey on Thursday 17th June at 7pm. For more information please call: Lucy Wood on 01822 854 332

World Environment Day 2010 – Sat 5 June

Westden endorses the United Nations’ World Environment Day (WED) 2010 which is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action.