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Gardener's Question Time is coming from Thrive in Reading on Friday.

http://www.thrive.org.uk/

Thrive is a small national charity, founded in 1978, that uses gardening to change the lives of disabled people.

BBC radio 4

Here's a link to a website that I'm sure will interest you all.

http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/

Abstract from my friend's post

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According to the Davies Report, all FTSE 100 companies and all public bodies and charities should have at least 25% female representation by 2015. Please join this campaign today! We are encouraging all women to at least consider taking up non executive positions on public bodies,…

The home insulation survey (Neighbourhood Energy-Watch) has got started in earnest now!

One of our door-to-door questionnaire people is looking for a room for accomodation a few nights a week, as she is travelling from Manchester to help us out. Any ideas or offers please? Call Neil 07754897024

Now I'm sure this will be much more fun than the AGM of the Climate and Health Council that I 'attended' by teleconference today.

Transition Town West Kirby Annual General Party

Fri 9th March 7pm Old Unitarian Church, Brookfield Gardens

Film 'Honouring our Elders', Music and Poetry,

oh and the AGM...…

Great to see progress with raised beds in the village. But is anyone gardening at home?

Potatoes are the most versatile kitchen garden crop that you can grow - boil, roast, mash, bake, chip... take a look below.

Everyone has their favourite varieties and I love to try out new ones.

My choice of potato varieties for this year.

'Elizabeth' - a top performer for yield at close spacing - should be…

Thanks to students from Eastham Centre and Heswell Day Centre and volunteers we have 3 raised beds between Eastham Centre and the NHS Clinic and 2 smaller beds right next to the footpath. These will make a big impact to passers by and visitors to clinic and Centre I'm sure. Really looking forward to…

We've got loads on this week, so if you can come and lend a hand that would be great (some work will still be heavy though!!)

Monday 27th 10am - 3pm Come along whenever to shovel some soil into new raised beds at Eastham Centre (next to NHS clinic) I'm sure there will other lighter jobs too.

Tuesday 28th - finish shovelling! Tuesdays are the new volunteer days at Eastham Centre - Transition projects or other projects... Greenhouses are almost ready now I…

Great news! The Mayor and Mayoress have accepted our invitation to attend our event on 3rd March 1-3pm at Eastham Centre. Please invite all your friends and family - see following text - I can get posters to you if you can put any up? Here's the flyer: 3rdMarGreeningCommunity.pdf…

Wirral Council’s groundbreaking free insulation scheme has provided 15,000 insulation measures to Wirral homes, saving a total of 6,150 tonnes of CO₂ every year.

The Warmer Wirral programme, delivered by Wirral based charity, Energy Projects Plus, has…

I've just registered us as a 'muller' transition initiative. This doesn't mean we have bad haircuts, nor are we vanilla yoghurt with a separate portion of fruit/jam, but we are thinking over and developing our ideas as a transition initiative. At some point, when we get bigger and better, we can graduate into a fully fledged 'official' initiative! See following page on Transition Network website:…

We've been talking with Energy Projects Plus in Wallasey about submitting a joint application for funding an survey of home energy efficiency in Eastham and Bromborough. It would be great to hear from anyone interested in being involved in this survey or who has questions about insulation or renewables?

There's lots of things we must do at the garden now.

1. Gather tons of leaves and set aside one or two compost bays to store them,
   • they will be used to make leaf mold and compost and in demonstation areas,
   • can we get the council to deliver leaves?
   • clearing up the leaves inside the Walled Garden will be a major task going foward - lets not waste them.
2. Although slug traps have been delivered to the garden they are not being…

Things are moving much faster on Energy Saving and there are opportunities we shouldn't miss out on. See below for another great opportuinity to save.

I've heard MP's and others talking about the 'Green' industries leading the way out of recession - or whatever you call it. Well today I had a call with another very exciting offer - free solar panels.

I blogged on the Feed-In-Tariff a week ago (see below) but let's quickly recap.

The…

Hello all,

Two beds of Bocking 14 Comfrey plants are now planted at the Walled Garden in Brotherton Park. Bill from the Eastham centre helped me with shovelling and spreading the manure, perhaps not his favourite job, but he certainly does it well.

Why is Comfrey special?

First, Comfrey leaves contain large amounts of the major plant nutrient nitrogen and even larger amounts of potassium. Details are on…

I've just met Sally and Rose from Incredible Edible in Hoylake. They were visiting the Walled Garden in Brotherton Park today. I suggested that they visit the Eastham Centre too. Their email address is incrededhoylake@gmail.com

And the advice that they passed on was: the Incredible Edible is best done by people in one area - it is more difficult to do over a wider area. So for me - I'd like to concentrate on the Walled Garden at Brotherton…

If you want to do something now that will help you pay your way into the future then the Feed In Energy Tariff has to be high on the list. Especially as money in the bank right now is giving so little return in interest.

I was talking with someone today on how it works. So check this out.

So what is a Feed In Tariff? It works like this.

You put photovoltaic cells onto your roof, get an Electricity Inverta and 

special meter…

Hi Michael,

Thanks for uploading photos from the walled garden open day. Anyone else with photos of this or other TVEB events - would be great to have them up here!

Cheers

Neil

I'm at the Transition Network annual conference this weekend. I'm writing a blog about what's happening on Transition Liverpool's blog  We had a good meeting with people from other northwest groups and hope to do more of this in future, good to know that there are similar people not too far away to share ideas / problems...

It's also the next of the Walled Garden Open Days this Sunday and Monday -…