NEXT MEETING - Thursday 24th January 2013 - 8pm Thomas Tripp

There was lots of discussion last night, and lots of planning for our future events.

Mince Pie Making - Thurs 29th Nov - Emily's house at 8pm. Bring your own jar of mince meat.

Christmas Fair - Sat 1st Dec - 9-12 noon. Lots of help needed from 7.30am. Newspaper adverts are in. School leaflets have been distributed. Emily to arrange a rota, items such as A frames and garden greenery needed. Jean genie examples needed too.

Jean Genie - Sat 9th Feb - What can you do with an old pair of jeans? Lym Comm Centre 10am - 12.30pm. To advertise at the Christmas Fair and local press nearer the time.

Lymington Allotments - NOW up and running with great enthusiasm and friendly rivalry!

Garden Share - There are still some gardens that do not have gardeners. All gardens can be found athttp://www.lymingtongardenshare.org  

Mapping Projects - with OS ongoing.

Wild Flowers - Kate explained that just sewing seeds without proper preparation is unsatisfactory. Seeds are expensive and yields will be poor.  

Priestlands Walled Garden - No real solution to this. It was felt that the school uses the garden to promote itself and would benefit from setting up a management plan to work out what is going to happen.

Lymington Veg Shop - Angel Courtyard - Natasha (the jam lady) has taken over the fruit shop. She is keen to stock local produce and anyone's garden surplus. Help support this local independent business.

School Energy Project - This is a great NFT initiative, part-funded by the NPA's Sustainable development Fund. The group felt that we need to advertise this further - it would give us greater credibility with a wider cross-section of the community. 

February - New Forest Transition - Visioning event - 

March - New Forest Transition - Training weekend, Minstead Study Centre

Insulate Hampshire's free top up insulation was well received in Lymington earlier this month. 

Next meetings

Thursday 24th January, 2013

Thurs 24th Jan 

NEXT MEETING - Wednesday 21st November - 8pm Thomas Tripp

There was lots of discussion last night, and lots of planning for our future events.

Green Open Doors - last weekend - this was felt to be a very positive event, with nearly double the number of visitors from the 200 last year. Fiona's mill had 35 visitors over the two days. Richards B&B had 6 visitors over three hours. Fiona said overall is was very 'heartening.'

Mince Pie Making - Thurs 29th Nov - Emily's house at 8pm. Bring your own jar of mince meat - Gary to email the recipe.

Christmas Fair - Sat 1st Dec - 9-12 noon. All 17 have now been booked. June and Arthur have kindly offered to run the tea and coffee stand. Stalls to set up the night before - Emily to look into the Lymington Lights - possible road closure on Fri 30th Nov? Sarah to look at the posters/school leaflets, Lymington Times and events websites. Andy has offered to print the leaflets.

Jean Genie - Sat 9th Feb - What can you do with an old pair of jeans? Lym Comm Centre 10am - 12.30pm. There has a good response from people interested in bringing along their sewing machine to help. Emily to speak to some of the local charity shops for old jeans, Sarah to produce a leaflet - so that it can go out at the Christmas Fair. 

Lymington Allotments - NOW AVAILABLE - to anyone who was on the waiting list and wanted one at that location. There are 68 plots, keys are available to pick up, the site has been ploughed, water is available on site, planning permission applied for for one design of shed. Gary said that he was looking forward to being part of a thriving community down there. Apparently some people on the waiting list have been on the list for in excess of 15 yrs! So amazing stuff! Well done to everyone involved.

Garden Share - There are 12 gardens available and 5 gardens that are matched. All gardens can be found at http://www.lymingtongardenshare.org  Emily and Rachel have just completed a survey from CAT by a MSc student on Garden shares. 

Mapping Projects - There were continued discussions on the potential mapping projects for Lymington, including a foraging map. Also, the Food Challenge have an idea for local food trails by bike, on foot and would like to take this further over the winter, so that they might be available from Easter 2013.

Wild Flowers - It was reported that the TC 's request for funding for more wild flower planting at Woodside Park had been rejected. Sally is meeting with the Land Advice Service at another potential area for planting/seeding. 

Priestlands Walled Garden - Kit is giving up looking after the garden full time. The group felt that they would like to be involved somehow in the garden in the future, they also felt that it was important for the students to continue to be involved in some way too.

Lymington Veg Shop - Angel Courtyard - Natasha (the jam lady) has taken over the fruit shop. She is keen to stock local produce and anyone's garden surplus. If you are in town, drop by and say hello.

School Energy Project - Mel is the volunteer for South Baddesley School. She has already made first contact and their energy audit is booked with HCC.

(Attendees: Richard, John, Fiona, Simon, Gary, Mel, Emily, Kate and Sarah)

Next meetings

Wed 21st Nov

Thurs 24th Jan 

Come along to Transition Lymington's 4th

Greener

Christmas Fair

Saturday 1st December, 9am - 12 noon

St Thomas Church Hall, High Street, Lymington

Lots of local producers, artists and crafts people - come and find some lovely local presents to give this year.

Fairtrade cafe and homemade mince pies on sale too!

Kids wreath making - for a donation - too.

All pitches are now taken, but if you require further info, please call Emily: Lym 675612

TRANSITION LYMINGTON - Meeting this Thursday

Six of us met up this evening at the Thomas Tripp to discuss what has been happening recently and our forthcoming events for the rest of the year, and for early 2013.

DATES AHEAD

Weekend 20/21st October - see NPA website Green Open Doors Event

 Sat 13th October Arnewood School have a Food Festival, promoting local food, making connections with where food comes from, food demonstrations, apple juicing, and more... School Hall 11am - 3pm

Thurs 25th October Transition Lymington Meeting 8pm Thomas Tripp

Wed 21st November - Transition Lymington Meeting 8pm Thomas Tripp

Sat 1st December Christmas Fair booked at St Thomas Church hall 9am - 12 noon. 17 stalls available. 10 booked and 5 already paid. We can set up on the Friday night. Emily to let the stall holders know timings. Need some big signs, A boards and TL banner.

Thurs 24th January, 2013 - Transition Lymington Meeting - 8pm Thomas Tripp

Sat 9th Feb, 2013 - Making use of an ol' pair of Jeans! at the Community Centre, Lymington 10 - 12.30pm. Need lots of old jeans, fabric, ribbon, buttons, people with sewing machines, ideas, and a 'come and have a go' feeling. 

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?

Lymington Allotments - Deneside Copse - The council are still committed to this, and there will be enough plots for everyone who would like one on the waiting list. There has been some repeated vandalism on the site, which has caused some delays.

Garden Share - 12 vacant gardens. Discussed ideas about how to advertise this? Landshare? Food challenge website?

Mapping - OS are able to help us with some maps of the town for: local food, garden share locations and available land for growing. They might also be able to help the Food challenge Food Trail idea.

Wild flower seeds for bees and butterflies. Apparently the town council are applying for funding for some more wild flower planting in Woodside Gardens. Transition groups around the country are able to order 'seed balls' at discount prices. See website

Just a quick reminder about our next Transition Lymington meeting

Thursday 27th September, 8pm at the Thomas Tripp

Topics for discussion:

• Wild flowers and bees, town council areas
• Christmas Fair - St Thomas Church Hall
• Denim Day/Jeans Genie idea for Feb 2013
• Possible events we could have a stall/activity at in 2013
• Deneside Copse - allotments
• Garden Share update
• Green Open Doors - Oct 2012

Other meeting dates we have in the diary for this year are:

Thursday 25th October

Tuesday 20th November

Thursday 24th January 2013 

A Greener

SPRING FAIR

at Priestlands School

Saturday 19^th May

11am-3pm

Free Entry

Come and join in the Fun!

Lots of local stalls,

Local produce

Craft stalls and gifts

Kids activities

Hog roast & delicious organic refreshments

Fair trade café

Face painting

Seedlings and Plant sale

Local Strawberries and cream

Local preserves and chutneys

Wood fired pizza

Handmade jewellery

Meet the animals

Vegibox.com

Real nappies!

Storytelling

Live music

Meet the famous Priestlands Pigs

Find out about the Bag Monster!

Raffle and more…

- Bring along your spare seeds and seedlings to swap

Please walk, cycle or share a car if possible

Organised by Transition Lymington

lymington@newforesttransition.org

If you live locally to Lymington and in SO41 area please could you print one of our Spring Fair posters and put it up in your local shop, on your fence or may be on the village notice board?

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Many thanks

Transition Lymington

From Economic Depression to Happiness

Credit Crunch, Bailouts, EU Debt Crisis, Austerity measures...

The system is broken.

Its time to create a new sustainable economic system. A system when money works.

In this inspiring presentation Stef Kling explains

• where does money come from and how banks work?
• what is wrong with the current economic system?
• how we can solve the economic crisis?
• how we can all contribute to a financial transformation?
• what does all this mean for you and steps that you can take now?

Wednesday 25th April

Lymington Community Centre

7.45 for 8pm with refreshments

Come along and watch a delightful film by local film maker Jonathan Blease, as he investigates the reconnection with local food in the New Forest. Enjoy some local produce nibbles as you watch.

FREE ENTRY - just come along.

Wednesday 11th April

Milford Community Centre 8-9pm

FILM TRAILER

"Connecting to Our Food is an inspirational and informative look at the resurgence of local food activity in the New Forest. The film clearly demonstrates what creativity can spring from a passion for community-sourced produce, and how reconnecting with our food is at the fulcrum of our relationship to our own health, our home planet and each other. I hope that this film is shown far and wide, and that it helps to generate more of the local food enthusiasm that it captures so well!”

--Tamzin Pinkerton, co-author with Rob Hopkins of Local Food, How to Make it Happen in your Community.

 This event is part of Milford Food Week