Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival Event at Green’s Mill, Sneinton on Sunday 27th September

Following the success of last year’s first Urban Harvest Festival, Transition Nottingham invited groups from around the city to celebrate this year’s crop at Green’s Mill on Sunday 27th September.

Clare Davies, an organiser of the festival says: ‘despite grim forecasts for the weather and worse for the economy, our gardens and allotments are starting to overflow with goodies – let’s celebrate the abundance and learn how to put it to tasty use in building Nottingham’s food security.’

Transition Nottingham was established in the summer of 2007 to provide a grassroots response to the problems of peak oil and climate change. We are working to turn Nottingham into a city which is less reliant on fossil fuel energy and a better place for us all to live. We are one of more than 100 initiatives in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Chile

This year, the Urban Harvest Festival focused on creative, fun and tasty things to do with our harvest with input from the diverse cultural traditions represented in Nottingham.

Activities included cooking and preserve making demonstrations, apple pressing and making a smoothie using a bike; plus ideas about how to turn your fruit and veg surplus into something a bit stronger…….! Also learned how the challenges of Peak Oil and climate change will affect future harvests and how you can get involved with Transition Nottingham. Competitions, kids’ activities, stalls loaded with local produce for sale, music from local performers, and the barter area where folks can swap those enormous marrows for a pot of jam.

 http://www.transitionnottingham.org.uk/urbanharvest

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Transition Nottingham’s Great Spring Sowing at the Arboretum
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424901.html

Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival 1 Event 2008
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/10/410024.html

Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival 2 Apple Pressing 2008
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/10/410046.html

Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival 3 Windmill 2008
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/10/410068.html

Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant 1 [Food for the Future]
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430465.html

Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant 2 [Food for the Future]
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/438647.html

"Food for the Future" skillshare session at the Sumac centre [Greenweeks]
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430936.html

'Fresh' Project at Ecoworks, St Ann's Allotments
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/10/382929.html

St Anns Allotments open Day
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348168.html

much more 'Tash on Food' at:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tash/sets/72157603274353832/

Sprout  http://sproutnottingham.org.uk

Ecoworks  http://www.ecoworks.org.uk

St.Anns Allotments  http://www.staa-allotments.org.uk

Greenweeks  http://www.greenweeks.org

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@indymedia.org
Member of the National Union of Journalists [No: 014345]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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