General Discussion
Dawlish Transition
‘Delicious Dawlish’
Community Feast
growing food anywhere and everywhere
Sowing, Growing, Harvesting and Eating
Have you been growing your own?
Make a dish using some of your own
or local produce
and
Share in a Community Feast
at
The Strand Centre
URC, Dawlish
22nd September 2012
1.30pm until 3.30pm
Free Admission
Learn more about local food producers
…Raffle …Live Music…
For further details contact dawlishtransition@gmail.com
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I'll be there ..... sans food however. My flat wont allow for growing :-( But will be there in support and to see what others are doing :-)
Do you have a balcony or any kind of outside space? I'm told herbs and veg can be grown in all sorts of containers in all sorts of places.
Hi Lynne, is campaigning for more allotments part of this groups agenda? Is there any scope for demanding provision of community allotments as part of the Section 106 bonuses coming our way?
I guess that's a "no" then. Which is a shame really, as this group seemed, on face value, to be quite a positive one.
It's nothing of the kind. I just haven't gotten around to responding to your post yet. Which I will do - but in my own time
I think what might be best is if you contact the transition group directly and ask them your question about allotments and any other matter you think relevant to new development and section 106s.. That way you will get a response direct from the horse's mouth as it were. Their e-mail address is at the bottom of my first posting on this thread.
I know their representative on the Steering Group of the Dawlish Neighbourhood Plan raised the issue of, and pressed for, the inclusion of allotments and community orchards but I also heard the professional planners representing developers/landowners poo poo the whole idea when the Dawlish Neighbourhood Plan was publicly examined back in April.
@Lynne - unfortunately not :-( i must get around to potting some more chillies though, they grow lovely on a window sill
There is more info about this event in this month's Dawlish Diamond and as I know not all of you get the DD I'll reproduce the info here.
"Following on from the successful launch of Delicious Dawlish, Dawlish Transition will be holding a Community Feast on September 22nd from 1.30pm to 3.30pm at The Strand Centre, U.R.C. Dawlish to celebrate the growing of local food.
Our Community Feast is open to everyone and you are all warmly invited to bring a dish to share and learn more about local producers and what they have to offer.
We hope to provide live music and we would love to hear from local musicians who would like to play: email dawlishtransition@gmail.com
The only cost is your donation of a dish made from a 'grow your own' ingredient or from local produce. Dawlish Transition is holding the Community Feast to encourage everyone to be aware of the benefits of locally produced food, use seasonal ingredients and cut down on food miles.
We have some excellent producers in the South Devon area and we are organising a display featuring information about food that is produced locally and where and when it is available".