The May 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition Crystal Palace Transition Towns market is celebrating its first birthday. The market has been a huge success since its inception, with local paper the Croydon Advertiser reporting Extremely strong winds caused havoc among stallholders at Crystal Palace food market on Saturday. But despite forcing three traders to pack up and go home, the bad weather failed to mar the markets first birthday celebrations. Congratulations from us too. The market also appeared in the Guardian in a piece about the resurgence of markets. Here are some of the CPTT organisers celebrating with a sing-song appropriate to the circumstances: And here are a few of the traders on what the market means to them: The group will also be celebrating their third birthday with an event on June 11th. And theyve been busy in the St Johns Community Garden too: Crystal Palace Transition Town have been one of the groups behind the creation of the areas Edible Bus Stop, which weve reported on previously here. With the Spring and everything, it is now a riot of plants. Is this Londons best bus stop? they tweeted. Here is a photo. You wouldnt mind a bus being a bit late if you got to spend time here would you? Transition Town Horncastle recently hosted an energy festival for people to learn more about the benefits of renewable energy. Members of Transition Town Dorchester left inspired and ready to seek a suitable site for a forest garden after a visit to Martin Crawford’s site in Devon. In the rain (see right). Also in Dorset, members of Transition Town Bridport have helped prepare a new polytunnel garden at a local school as part of their HOME in Bridport initiative. Salisbury in Wiltshire is ready to launch Transition and have invited Rob Hopkins along to a public meeting at the local Guildhall to help catalyse and inspire people to get involved. Transition Langport recently tweeted that they are very excited & proud to have been shortlisted for the #Westbourne100 for our #Plastic Bag free #Langport campaign. Transition Town Worthing are busy too. Two of their recent tweets give a sense of how things are going for them: Were heading to Transition Worthings pre-launch event for the #Worthing #farmdrops producers. Such exciting times for FarmDrop! #foodpioneers We doubled our membership on facebook in just over two months - #transitiontowns #worthing is on the up! They also partnered up with Brighton Permaculture Trust, Low Carbon Trust and Open Eco Homes for a weekend showcasing local eco homes in Worthing. A video and more info on the event in the Worthing Herald. Transition Bristol are holding their Small Green Sunday this Sunday (May 25th). Heres the flyer: We are all in deep admiration of the story this month of how the West Solent Solar Co-operative, formed by members of New Forest Transition, raised £2.46 million in local investment for a community solar farm. The full story is here. Bucks Free Press reported how Transition Town Marlow had been given Go-ahead to plant Marlow town orchard for community scrumping. It quoted Helen Dann from the group as saying: When we plant orchards we can teach children where food comes from, and the importance of nature. Orchards help a town to maintain its local distinctiveness and identity as we group together to save vulnerable local varieties of apple, pear, cherry, plum and damson. In a similar way to community gardens, community orchards are a great opportunity for everyone to learn new skills, such as fencing, wildlife watching, horticultural skills gained from pruning and maintenance of the fruit trees, and jam, cider and fruit juice making skills, once the fruit is picked. From Transition Town Totnes, the April Skillshare newsletter, details of the CARD project (Community Action for Retrofit Delivery), funded by a grant from the Energy Saving Trust and starting with the nearby village of Harbertonford, the latest community consultation on the Transition Homes project which covered natural building materials, design constraints and project overview and finally, some inner nourishment in the form of a (weekly) Time to Breathe session, this one in honour of Earth Day. Now on to some local currency stories. While were still in Totnes, Tuesday May 20th saw the relaunch of the Totnes Pound, with a great event to launch it into the world. There was a very good piece in the Guardian before hand which gave a good sense of the different schemes underway across the UK, and how they are boosting local economies. Here is the poster for the Totnes launch event: New social enterprise Totnes-based brewery New Lion Brewery also brewed a special bottled beer available on the night called The Totnes Pound. Heres the label: According to South West Business, the city of Bath is considering a local currency, the Bath Pound. Jay Risbridger, one ... ift.t…
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