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Special events are in bold type, other meetings and regular events are also open to everyone! There are more events (organised by other groups but with similar aims) here.
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Thursday 16th May: Transition Cafe: Getting started with growing salads and vegetables
CB1 Cafe, 32 Mill Road, Cambridge 19:30-21:00 add to google calendar
Want to grow your own but don't know where to start? At this cafe night we plant some salad and veg in pots for you to take home with you, and there'll be some experienced growers to answer your questions. Seeds, soil and pots provided, just choose what you'd like to grow! The cafe opens at 7, and we'll start at 7:30. Free!
Saturday 18th May: CropShare - Be an organic farmer for a day.
Waterland Organics, Willow Farm, Lode CB25 9HF 10:00-16:30 add to google calendar
Join Transition's community farming project, CropShare, to experience life as a real organic farmer for a day. We will be having fun helping out on the farm from 10am to 12.30pm, and 2pm to 4.30pm, sharing a lunch and a chat in between. You can join us for the morning or afternoon session, or both. See our blog to get a flavour of what workdays are like. It will be good healthy fun,a great chance to see our local countryside, and how food is grown on a large scale. Fill in this form if you would like to take part , & we'll also help you arrange travel to the farm. Everyone is very welcome! Family friendly. More...
Saturday 18th May: Permaculture group meeting. Use and value renewable (and locally found) resources and services
13:00-15:30 add to google calendar
Starting with a shared lunch, we will be looking at how Pippa works with the permaculture principle "Use and value renewable (and locally found) resources and services". More details here. For directions, please contact Ceri and Dave. All welcome, free.
From: Transition Cambridge Permaculture group.
Tuesday 21st May: Food Group meeting
CB2 restaurant (upstairs room), Norfolk Street, CB1 2LD 18:30-20:00 add to google calendar
All welcome at the Food Group's regular meeting. We'll be reviewing our activities, discussing our exciting new fruit-picking project that will be launched this coming Autumn and making plans for a fruit picking exploratory meeting on July 2nd. More details on this coming soon. Note that we're meeting at CB2 restaurant - upstairs room, go towards the back of the building.
From: Food Group
Saturday 25th May: Grow Your Own Session in Trumpington
Trumpington allotments 10:00-13:00 add to google calendar
Join experienced allotmenteer Dave Fox on his plot in Trumpington. These sessions are for novices and people with any amount of practical growing experience - it's more of a mutual sharing than a lesson! In the May session we will be sowing maincrop potatoes and/or beetroot and/or polyveg, weeding and tending fruit in the forest garden, building a raised bed and taking a look round the community polytunnel. Join in here. More...
From: Transition Cambridge Food Group
Sunday 26th May: Building your own top bar beehive and talk on sustainable bee keeping.
Milton Country Park. 10:30-17:00 add to google calendar
Dave will talk about sustainable bee keeping and the different sorts of top bar beehives available in the morning followed by a shared lunch. After that you will have the opportunity to build your own horizontal top bar hive. All materials supplied. Cost £65 for talk and hive, £10 talk only. Contact Nicky or call 07762 012 167 or via facebook page. More...
From: Cambridge Greentech
Thursday 30th May: Transition Cafe: All about CamLETS (Local Exchange and Trading)
CB1 Cafe, 32 Mill Road, Cambridge 19:30-21:00 add to google calendar
Richard Robertson will introduce CamLETS - Cambridge Local Exchange and Trading System. CamLETS enables members to exchange skills by means of a sophisticated barter system. You get things done for yourself by doing things for other people. How it works: members list the services they offer in a directory. This allows you to buy and sell goods and advertise wants. Payments are made in a local currency ('Cams'), used only by members. Normally one hour's work is worth 10 cams. So, for example, you can earn 'cams' by teaching someone Dutch, and use them to pay someone else to baby-sit! The only sterling cost you pay is a small annual subscription to cover running costs. CamLETS now have an on-line payment system, as well as the more traditional paper cheque book. For more information and to join, come along to this cafe night or see their web-site: http://www.cam.letslink.org/. You can also read more about LETS schemes here: http://www.letslinkuk.net/.
Wednesday 12th June: Energy Group Meeting
Judith's house 20:00-21:30 add to google calendar
We will consider plans for our next forum and progress on the community energy project for PV panels. Contact Nicola for details of venue.
From: Renewable Energy Group
Saturday 22nd June: Permaculture Group Meeting "Observe and Interact"
Claire's House/garden 15:00-17:00 add to google calendar
Claire will be hosting and showing us her one year old Forest Garden which is a work in progress within her suburban garden in Trumpington. The principle we will be focusing on is, "Observe and interact." This is important in any system. If we make a change and we like what happens as a result we need to be able to repeat it or if we don't like the change, then do something different. The latter is also a learning experience not a mistake! For directions, please contact Ceri and Dave. More...
From: Transition Cambridge Permaculture group.
Thursday 27th June: Energy forum - solid wall insulation
St. Lukes Church Centre, Victoria Road, CB4 3DZ 19:30-21:30 add to google calendar
Does your home have solid wall? If so now is a good time to be thinking about insulating them because there is financial help available for all through the Green Deal and the ECO grant scheme. Come to our forum and find out all about it. We will have industry experts on external and internal insulation for you to quiz, plus some of our friends who have done it to tell you about the experience. More...
From: Energy group
Tuesday 2nd July: Fruit Harvest Project - exploratory meeting
CB2 Bistro Norfolk Street Cambridge 18:30-20:30 add to google calendar
Come to a special meeting and find out about the latest Food Group project. We want to collect and make use of unwanted and excess orchard fruits from Cambridge gardens this coming season. We'd love to hear from anyone who'd like to join in, please see our new web page for more on this project. and contact The Food Group to register your early interest. More...
Thursday 11th July: Transition Cafe - All about recycling
CB1 cafe, 32 Mill Road, CB1 2AD 19:30-19:30 add to google calendar
The Transition Café is focusing on waste this week. The stuff we throw away goes on a journey after the bin lorry picks it up – but where does it go and what happens next? Emma Cross will begin this informative and interactive evening with a short talk – and there will be plenty of time for discussion and questions. Emma coordinates the Recycling Champions scheme for the City Council - see this page on the Transition website for more info. More info on recycling is here.
