Hello

Just a quick brief on what is happening here.

Lo and behold the council need to do a consultation of the residents about the orchard. Their plan is to cut down old trees and plant new ones.

Now it is too late and the council will add this to their plans next year.

Carina at the London Orchard Project would like to find some possible space in Islington to grow an orchard.

Is anyone free for an adventure. They really would like to see trees planted now and I think so would we. If we get… Continue

The Transition Highbury Library now stocks Green Titles for Children.
"10 Things i can do to help my World","Herb the Vegetarian Dragon" and "The Beeman" are among the books we are now proud to stock.
We welcome book donations .
To borrow a book and for enquiry contact Cinzia at cisarigu@hotmail.com

Hi All,

My name is Robert Barker, and I have just started a new lcoal service called www.farm-direct.com.

The service is exclusive to Islington, and aims to enable local residents to buy more produce from their local farmers on a weekly basis.

The service allows people to order produce from 14 participating local farmers / food producers, anytime upto Thursday 1pm each week, and then they can recieve their order anytime over the weekend from 9am on a Saturday morning. Their are two ways that… Continue

See article for a possible solution(partially,anyway!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24Despommier.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

download the flyer

Map is here

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