Fruit harvesting and juicing at Shipston High School
We had a successful apple and pear picking trip to Portabello last Tuesday (13th october), thanks to Keith, and with the help of PC Guy Blacklock we were able to take the fruit picked to Shipston High School this afternoon. There is a blossoming Food Science after-school group there run by the Mrs Butterworth, Food Science teacher.

Food Group Meeting - Monday 21st September 7.30pm Black Horse Pub

For those that missed the Transition Shipston Food Open Space meeting there was great enthusiasm and ideas/suggestions. The ideas are being discussed further at the meeting on Monday when hopefully we can start some more food initiatives. Notes from the Open Space:

Big Green Bus in Pebworth, Sat 26th Sept - book now!

The Big Green Idea (www.thebiggreenidea.org) is an environmental charity headed by Brigit Strawbridge that seeks to encourage people to move to a more sustainable living.

Local Organic Lamb for Sale

Keith & Sue Finlay have 20 lambs that are just being sent to the butcher. If anyone want to buy one (or any part of one) contact Sue Finlay: 01608 661157 or sue.finlay12@btinternet.com

Shipston High School Projects

PC Guy Blacklock the Safer Schools Officer at Shipston High School has sent in this email requesting help with food growing projects at the school...
In a few weeks time I will be running the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme from Shipston Youth club, if there are any projects already running, can I ask if anyone would be willing to take on some young people so they can complete a section of their award? The relevant sections are either volunteer or skills. So they could volunteer to help with a specific project, or learn gardening skills over a set time period.

Feeding Shipston in 2030 - the first step!

There were 20 people at the first Transition Shipston Open Space entitled "Feeding Shipston and the Surrounding Villages in 2030" on Tuesday 8th September.

At the beginning of the meeting several local people who had already started producing food locally told of their experiences.

* Frances Lee (see photo) from Witchford showed slides of the allotment she and others had started in the village earlier this year when they managed to get a local landowner to provide a hectare of land for a peppercorn rent. There are now 12 allotment holders who have all produced good crops in their first year.

Got ideas? Got inspiration? Want to get involved ? Join us for a series of Open Space sessions

Transition Shipston will be facilitating a number of Open Space events to allow people to share there ideas for how we can tackle the threat of Peak Oil and Climate Chaos.

Open space events are designed to allow people and communities to share ideas there ideas on how a particular problem can be tackled, from these ideas practical projects and solutions can be established.

So if you've got some good ideas? Would like to get involved? or just would like to see whats going on, please come along.

The open space sessions will be on the following 3 topics: Food, Energy and Transport. These topics were popular areas concern and interest at the Age of Stupid film screening.

The dates for the Open Space sessions are as follows:

Food: Sept 8th at 7:00pm in the Community Lounge Shipston High School
Energy: Oct 6th
Transport: Nov 10th

Please look out for further info on the events.

We look forward to seeing you there

Please contact us, if you have any inquiries