mikeyboy Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Doing some gentle surfing today I found this interesting site: http://www.allotment.org.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 I am part of the Transition Town group here, there is one in Shetland. You do not have to agree to all the points, but there are some excellent folk with great ideas. http://www.transitionshetland.org.uk/forum.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted December 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 very interesting, just signed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Some interesting stuff here:http://www.self-sufficient.co.uk/index.htmhttp://www.rivercottage.net//http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Have been reading some of the stuff on this site recently. It is very North American centric and a wee bit right on. But it does have a lot of interesting info as seems to act as a nexus for Green articles.http://www.motherearthnews.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 There is of course this as well... http://www.growshetland.co.uk/ bit more local. Here where I am.... We have a several community projects on going at the moment.We support community gardens, orchards and coppicing. This year we gave away quite allot of veg to elderly residents around the garden as a thank you for keeping an eye on it. Next year we will be giving away shoe box gardens and the like, we have handed over the running of one raised bed to the youth club at the community centre. Also provided tools to do the jobs. What folk can do is approach the council about plots of land that could be used as a garden. Generally, they hare happy to do this as id removes it from the maintenance list though they still support the land. This then makes way for grants to be applied for as the garden now has "partners" and the gift of the use of the land could be used. We will also encourage more service users to come along, we have a couple, it would be great to have more.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 I think the last post on that site was about Sept. Which is a real shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Yup, that is the case it seems...Malachy may be the one to talk to about it. I wonder if these are still up and running? http://www.growshetland.co.uk/projects.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 http://www.turriefieldveg.co.uk/ Transition Turriefield are going very well. Great folk, great veg and an absolute mine of knowledge too. THoroughly recommend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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