Transition towns

Penelope_Penguin

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kate83

nesssie1702 wrote: »

Not sure that the H&S people would find a problem with it, nor the food hygiene police either Fruit isn't particularly associated with food poisoning, so there shouldn't really be a risk with this :j

Round me, they have taken down all the cherry blossom trees as "the blossom made the roads and pavements slippy when wet" so I'm sure they'd have a problem with nuts falling out of trees and hitting people on the head or being on the pavements as a fall hazard. Fruit, if left on the ground would be troden on and become slippy!

Caterina - I do believe in serendipity - I work in a garden centre and was very bored and started surfing the net to try and find out about a meeting I'd seen about growing more food locally - found out I lived in a transition community and I'd never heard of it so had a good read. I was later looking in our sale section and saw we had a copy of the transition handbook, don't know where it came from as I work in the book department and had never seen it before! Someones obviously trying to tell me something - quite glad I found it actually as I had kind of given up trying to be green as I thought it was a lost cause and it's given me some new enthusiasm and hope

To the mod - I was hoping this post could be left on Old style as I thought they would have a lot of ideas and knowledge that would be useful to others condsidering this

artichoke

hi

yes, i agree that this post could be usefully left on old style, if we agree to specifically talk about old style reskilling issues that are brought up by Transition Towns, which are the issues discussed on the moneysaving old style board, and DON"T talk about climate change and peak oil.

art

Caterina

kate83 wrote: »

Caterina - I do believe in serendipity - I work in a garden centre and was very bored and started surfing the net to try and find out about a meeting I'd seen about growing more food locally - found out I lived in a transition community and I'd never heard of it so had a good read. I was later looking in our sale section and saw we had a copy of the transition handbook, don't know where it came from as I work in the book department and had never seen it before! Someones obviously trying to tell me something - quite glad I found it actually as I had kind of given up trying to be green as I thought it was a lost cause and it's given me some new enthusiasm and hope

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Kate that's amazing *background X-files music playing* I hope that your TT project goes well, and mine too. I am a sort of impatient person and waiting for up to one year for the launch is going to be difficult for me, but I hope that some practical things will come out after a few meetings.

Let's keep this thread updated with the progress!

ceridwen

Indeed.....another vote for this shoulda stayed on Old Style Board - as its about reskilling and that is indeed a very Old Style thing. Cooking, gardening, making do and mending, knitting, dressmaking....what could possibly be more Old Style than that?

In fact - this is where I came in personally - I first got interested in the idea of reskilling (courtesy of T.T. Movement) and then soon realised where I could learn a lot of traditional housewifely ideas from..........step in...Old Style Board and take a curtsy.

artichoke

is there anything we can do to get this moved back to old style?

If not can we just try and use the thread here - even though more of the "right/ interested " people would see if it was on old style?

So anyway - what types of reskilling workshops would you be interested in your transition towns running?

Here in matlock we have started to run vegetable / fruit growing workshops, and are going to hopefully start some textiles workshops on sewing, mending revamping clothes, knitting, rugmaking

and some on preserving food in the autumn time....

art

kacie

hi, are transition towns for just the town/city stated or smaller towns/villages around them as well?

kate83

They are for any area - smaller is probably better to start off with really.
Near me, two large villages have joined together to create one.

Larumbelle

Well, waddya know, I live in a transition town too, and never knew it. Very irking, as it's a big interest of mine... I'll be scuttling off to offer the local committee my Big Gob for publicity purposes!

ceridwen

SilverCharming - well...if you have a "big gob" - mine probably matches it:D Hope you get on well in this - I have a feeling you will like it Aril (on my Simplifying Life thread) attended her first T.T. meeting the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it by the sound of it and several other people on that thread are looking into this. We're on a roll here folks - the more the merrier....:T

At a T.T. event here locally one of the people who is very much a "leading light" in our local group expressed astonishment and pleasure at just how many people had turned up and the level of enthusiasm generated and commented that she wouldnt have believed a year ago JUST how many people would join in (ie in our local area). Hello "mum" <waves> - just in case she ever reads this...'Tis okay...she and her partner were told by someone t'other day at one of our events that she regarded them as "our Mum and Dad here locally" in the T.T. Movement - because of the amount of effort they put into getting this off the ground here.