New Forest Transition

Carbon Trading is

• failing to drive down carbon emissions
• giving banks more and more cash to devise ever complex systems
• a con, that is stopping the UK meeting its legally binding carbon budget....

Hear more...

Is carbon trading a distraction or a valid exercise?

Fathers and sons, Mothers and daughters, come and try your hand at

• Shelter building
• Camp site postitioning
• Laying and lighting fires
• Wild foods and nutural cures
• How to find and purify water
• Knife work, carve your own backwood momento
• Backwoods feast over a campfire

Saturday 20th February, 9.00am - 4.30pm

£25 /adult, £10 child at Minstead Study Centre

Bring a packed lunch and warm, suitable, outdoor clothing.

Alice Roberts meets the new Diggers - groups and individuals across the country determined to tackle the looming food crisis by making the wasteland grow.

In Todmorden in West Yorkshire locals began by secretly planting up the gardens of their derelict heath centre. Today the whole town seems to throb with fertility; new allotments fill the retirement home gardens and feed the residents, an aquaponics growing system is being built behind the secondary school and pak choi self-seeds through the cracks in the town centre pavements.

Near Gateshead a National Trust-owned stately home has cleared its enormous Georgian walled garden and invited local people in to create their own allotments. Meanwhile, a farming estate in Oxfordshire has decided that a reliance on arable farming leaves it vulnerable to world markets. New farmers and growers are being invited to rent small plots of land to try their hand at making the tricky transition from amateur grower to real farmer.

Alice Roberts asks if this grassroots revolution will produce enough food to feed Britain. Will it transform the shape of our countryside and the look of our towns?

Come and join us at the Thomas Tripp Pub in February and March 2010.

We will be showing some of the old favourites and a couple of more recent films in their side bar. Arrive from 7.30pm, films at 8pm.

Wednesday 10th Feb - The Power of Community (54 mins) - Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens after they lost global support in the early 1990's.

Thursday 18th Feb - End of the Line - trailer

Tuesday 2nd March - Newly Released - Animate Earth (47 mins) and Story of Stuff (20 mins)

Wednesday 10th March - Robert Newman's History of Oil - Comedy Sketch (40 mins) and Wake up, Freak Out (10 mins)

Thursday 18th March - In Transition  (54 mins) - A postive look at other towns that are 'in transition.'

Would you like to grown your own fruit & veg but do not have anywhere to garden or, do you have a plot of land that you cannot maintain? Would you like to share?

Come to a meeting to find out more.

Thursday 4th February, 5.30 -6.30pm

NFDC Buildings, Christchurch Road, Ringwood

Please feel free to download poster:

RingwoodGardenShare.doc

Transition Lymington will be holding their second annual Spring Fair in the grounds of Priestland's School on Saturday 17th April. Come and join us, as we celebrate what is local:

Stands from local crafts people, local foods, kids crafts, face painting, seed planting, plant sale and green energy advice.

If you are a local producer or business and would like a stall at the Fair please email Kate at lymington@newforesttransition.org

Spring Fair 11am - 3pm

Free Entry

Its not just about coffee, tea and bananas... you can also get fairtrade cotton, flowers, dried fruits, honey, sweets, biscuits, beer, ale and wine!

Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 22nd Feb - 7th March, so, if you already buy fairtrade tea and coffee, why not swap another item and make it fairtrade. Find out more about The Big Swap 2010.

You can also buy catering quantities of these items.

Green and Black's going Fairtrade! Read more...

Come and join us at the

Thomas Tripp Pub, Lymington (opposite Waitrose) on Tuesday 2nd February at 7.30pm, to start at 8pm.

Some interesting reviews:

'Humanity is on course to wipe itself out in the very near future. Some people think of this as a bad thing. If you can't make up your mind, help is at hand. '

'a scorching appeal for humans to avoid knowingly up-ending the earth’s climate, delivered from the vantage-point of 2055.'

'One of the most important films of the year (perhaps decade)... Take note. While this film is about the collective future of humanity, this film is equally or more important because it represents the future of film, film culture and film distribution.'