New Hot Bed course

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Jack First building a hot bedFollowing the great success of the last hot bed courses, Jack First (WYOG member and very experienced organic gardener) is planning to hold a practical course on the process and principles of making and using hot beds in your garden or allotment.

This is an eco-friendly way of providing heat so as to grow both early and late crops so extending the season by several months.

The course will be on Friday 2nd of March 10am – 4pm at the Marley Stadium in Keighley and the cost will be £20. Drinks will be provided but bring a packed lunch. The course is  very hands on, and outdoors – so weatherproof working clothes are the order of the day.

To book a place please phone Jack after 6pm on 01422 202648 to book a place, or contact him by email. It may be possible to hold another course if there is a big demand.

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Making Local Fruit Work

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Sustainable fruit-based enterprise

Saturday 28th January 2012
10am – 4pm Lunch provided.
Todmorden Unitarian Church, Todmorden, West Yorkshire

Join the Making Local Food Work team and Incredible Edible Todmorden for a day of workshops, networking and inspiration.

Suitable for those involved in:

  • Community Orchards
  • Fruit-based Community Supported
  • Agriculture (CSA)
  • Abundance projects
  • Scrumping projects
  • Transition Initiatives
  • Cider co-ops
  • Orchard Groups

Or just anyone with an interest in creating sustainable livelihoods and community enterprises around local fruit.

Can’t see the wood for the trees?

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A woodland scene with bluebellsWoodlands For Our Future

The Council is the single largest woodland owner in the district with 590 hectares of woodland, 267 hectares of parkland woods and some 14,000 highway trees. These trees along with hundreds of hectares of private woodlands help to make the district sustainable and also a great place to live, work and visit.

They are currently working on a plan for the future of trees and woodland in the District, and they need your views and suggestions, to ensure that it meets the needs of all of the community. This is an opportunity for you to help shape the future of our local woodlands. Please spend a few minutes answering the questions and making suggestions.

A consultation document regarding a Draft Woodland Strategy has been produced, and the Woodlands Team welcome feedback in any form – letters, emails, phone calls. The most important thing is that they hear peoples’ views. The consultation finishes on 31st January 2012, after which the comments will be incorporated into a final draft which will be presented at The Environment Scrutiny Committee on 20th March. This is the place where the elected councillors adopt (or not) the strategy – the more responses the consultation receives the more information can be included in the action plan, but also it will indictate the level of support for woodlands in our District.

WYOG AGM 2011

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image of fannys ale house, saltaireWYOG AGM 2011 at Fanny’s Ale House 12 – 2 Saturday 19th November

AGENDA

1 Apologies
2 Minutes of last meeting and matters arising
3 Reports – treasurer, chair, 22nd show, potato day, other events/visits, any other
4 Election of committee
Some minor changes suggested – we need to define the roles so everyone knows what they are.
Chair (Marion wishes to resign so offers/nominations welcome)
Secretary
Treasurer
Mailing secretary (on-line)
Mailing secretary (postal)
Show Secretary/Co-ordinator (plus individuals agreeing to take on specific roles)
Publicity co-ordinator (new position)
Committee

Brief break to help ourselves to lunch

5 Future events/stalls – Potato Day, 23rd WYOG Show date/venue (20 mins max) Plant Sale, New Year meal + any other other (wine tasting, visits)
6 Next Committee Meeting date
7 AOB – to include -
Brief talk from Ann Algie from Growing With Grace – a cooperative community project – update on the project and a time to ask questions (hopefully discussions can continue after the meeting)

Download a copy of the agenda

Post-Christmas meal

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The WYOG post-Christmas meal will be at Prashad on Horton Grange Road in Bradford at 7.30 on January 20th. If you would like to come along, please let Peter Taylor know at sueandpetertaylor@yahoo.co.uk by November 30th at the latest so he can book the restaurant. There is a £5 per person non-refundable deposit required with the booking.

Growing Communities

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Kirklees Environment Partnership are hosting an all day event called ‘Growing Communities’ on Wednesday 23rd November. This day of free local food workshops and activities is organised in partnership with Stirley Community Farm, Growing Newsome and Information by Design.

In the morning there will be a series of workshops to inform, inspire and illustrate to you the ways that Newsome residents are growing. Together we have created a range of successful food growing projects, sites, events and education facilities. Our activities over the past two years have enabled local people to grow their own food, created volunteering opportunities, given people new skills and confidence, and helped to build new and stronger relationships.

Join us for these interactive workshops, a home grown lunch of local seasonal food, and a visit to Stirley Community Farm in the afternoon.
This day will be useful for anybody who is involved in education and training, policy making, and community or voluntary organisations who are interested in local food. Places are limited – please book now if you’d like to take part.

More details about the local food workshops:
Growing Communities local food workshops

Book online now:
Growing communities booking form

AGM 2011

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The WYOG AGM 2011 to be held on Saturday 19th November 12 – 2 pm upstairs at Fanny’s Alehouse in Saltaire.

This will be a chance to discuss how things have gone over the last year and help with planning for the next one.

Refreshments will be provided and all members are very welcome. The agenda will be available nearer the time, so keep an eye on the website.

It would be very helpful if you could let us know if you are planning to attend so that we can judge the amount of food to order. Please use the form below. Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you there.

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Vegucational excellence

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Selina, Elisha, Daniyal and Amaan from Riddlesden St. Mary’s CE Primary School in Keighley are helping to collect some of their vegetables from the school garden. There is no sign of any of their sweetcorn which won the best entry in the schools section this year at the Show – they’ve all been eaten!
Are there any other schools who have some photos of children gardening you’d like to put up here? If so please send them in.