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FeedingManchester 5

Date:

20 October, 2010

We are back at MERCi's Bridge-5 Mill for the 5th FeedingManchester, with over forty groups from across Greater Manchester expected to meet up for the uniquely regular opportunity to network, share and plan a sustainable food system for the city.

We have a lot to introduce, discuss and plan at FeedingManchester #5 and throughout the day we will be:

1. Updating each other with our news and progress since the last FeedingManchester in June (2010).

2. Making a sustainable food video.

3. Launching Greater Manchester's sustainable Food Directory and Web Forum.Read more

What's our Future?

Date:

23 September, 2010

Did you know that Manchester has a climate change action plan? It’s called “Manchester: A Certain Future” and it outlines how our city will change over the coming years and how we can help.

Find out about it, at the Manchester -What's our Future event where there’ll be lots of people to answer all your questions, space for you to have your say on how we should shape our city’s future, film, fun and lots of tasty food.Read more

Handy Pollination Tips

Date:

22 August, 2010

A new gallery on how to hand-pollinate courgettes has been created. So if you have a variety of courgette you are particularly fond of , why not harvest the seeds for planting next season?

You can't just take the seeds from any mature courgette because there is not telling what its cross-pollinated with and you may get a surprise when the new courgettes begin to grow. However, if you intervene early enough you can ensure a pure variety by hand-pollinating the female courgette flowers.Read more

Sustainable Food Map

Date:

10 August, 2010

A Sustainable Food Directory for Greater Manchester is taking shape after Kindling made its fledgling database of sustainable food projects available on-line. With over a hundred and fifty independent businesses, voluntary organisations and community groups listed into categories like primary producers (e.g. growers), secondary producers like bakers; retailers, community projects and support services, the directory can be searched by name, type and location. Additionally, a map allows for easy searching.Read more

Heyes Memory Lane

Date:

22 July, 2010

Timperley was once a well known market gardening area, from the late 1800's, supplying the city of Manchester with fresh fruit and vegetables such as strawberries, cos lettuce, tomatoes cucumbers from glasshouses and and in particular, the locally discovered variety, 'Timperley Early' rhubarb. Indeed, Heyes Lane School, who Forgotten Fields has been working with, is built on land bought by compulsory purchase from Harry Marsland who was one of the first nurserymen to grow Timperley Early.Read more

More Sustainable Food

Date:

14 July, 2010

Greater Manchester Council of Voluntary Organisations (GMCVO) are taking part in MERCi's Sustaining Change audit and programme. As one of the programmes trail blazer organisations they will support other voluntary and community groups to become more sustainable, showing what's possible and how to overcome obstacles they have faced. Kindling is supporting GMCVO in looking at changes they can make in relation to food.Read more

Organic Farming Master

Date:

9 July, 2010

It's taken three years, an unbelievably steep learning curve, a lot of patience of friends, relations and tutors alike, and a huge amount of time – but finally, on the 9th July 2010 Helen went to Glasgow to collect her MSc (with distinction) in Organic Farming.Read more

German EcoVillage Trip

Date:

5 July, 2010 - 20 July, 2010

Kindling's Chris will be spending a fortnight this summer on a Permaculture Design Course run by the German Permaculture Academy at the award winning Ecovillage of Sieben Linden. Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.Read more

Brookburn Souper Fête

Date:

3 July, 2010

The sun shone brightly on Brookburn Primary School's Summer Fete on Saturday 3rd July (2010), and children and parents were out on mass to have fun, taste three of the delicious range of organic, local, seasonal soups, and meet the growers who had grown the vegetable ingredients!Read more

Solar Work for Change

Date:

2 July, 2010

Exciting plans are afoot at Work for Change the co-op managed workspace where we're based. This week we had a visit from Ewen from Love Solar to help us to scope up the options for installing a Solar PV array on the roof.Read more

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