Incredibly Edible Chagford

Incredibly Edible Chagford.

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!!)

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.

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.

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

Volunteers dig in to help the environment

Volunteers and gardeners gathered together as environmental charity Westden held a volunteer afternoon at Tavistock Community Primary School as part of their latest major project called the School Community Landscape Network (CLaN).

Fairtrade Fortnight – 22 Feb to 7 Mar 2010

Fairtrade Fortnight is fast approaching and Westden has been involved in events before. If you would like to be involved in any activities in Tavistock this year then please get in contact with Max. There is a meeting on Monday 25 January 2010 at 10.30am to discuss opportunities.

Tavistock College Outdoor Task Force strike at the Molly Owen Centre

Pupils from Tavistock College joined Westden’s event to promote sustainable community outdoor volunteering on a day all about rights and responsibilities. The facelift at the Molly Owen Centre was greatly appreciated and the group had gained great satisfaction in doing work for other people.

Tamar Grow Local community allotments and composting project

Tamar Grow Local has opened two new community allotments at Calstock and St Budeaux on an exciting new model for community-based development. They are also looking to establish demand and interest for a Community Composting Scheme in the local area.

TVAONB Newsletter (Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)

The latest newsletter from the TVAONB has some interesting articles about Morwellham Quay, new community allotments, Tamar Grow Local and much more.

Eco-schools

Westden would like to support the schools that become part of the Westden Community School Garden Network towards joining the Eco-schools network and working towards sustainability.

Second place for Tavistock Town Farmers’ Market in Devon Life Best Farmers’ Market Awards 2009

Tavistock Farmers’ Market in top three of Devon Life Best Farmers’ Market 2009 again.

Todmorden shows the way with Incredible Edible

Westden co-ordinator, Maxim Laithwaite, attended the University of Plymouth’s “All Our Futures 2″ conference last week. He reported back with an excellent initiative from Todmorden, Lancashire. For more information CLICK HERE.