Transition Stroud is a group of volunteers who work “for the benefit of the community of the Stroud District to take, and inspire others to take, collaborative actions that strengthen our local community and respond positively to the challenges of climate change and declining energy supplies.” As well as organising the Edible Open Gardens weekend, Transition Stroud initiatives include: Eco-Renovation Open Homes Sept 10th – 11th 2011 After 3 successful weekends Transition Stroud will again be offering home owners the opportunity to visit over 20 homes around Stroud (5 of them new to the open weekends) and find answers to your home eco-renovation questions. This year the focus will be on fuel poverty. Skills Gain focuses on those self reliance skills we will need tomorrow and offers taster courses in these skills today. For more information contact Erik Wilkinson on [email protected]TripSwitch where we are encouraged to use other forms of transport rather than the car. www.stroudtripswitch.co.uk Changing Gear A scheme that encourages secondary school pupils to cycle to and from school during National Bike Week and provides cycle training within six secondary schools. Stroud Pound A local currency designed to benefit customers, traders, businesses and local charities. www.stroudpound.org.uk Join us If you would like to join us, or explore working in partnership with us, please contact us at [email protected]www.transitionstroud.org 9th-10th July 2011 T R A N S I T I O N STROUD T R A N S I T I O N STROUD Saturday 1.00pm at Thrupp allotments COMPOSTING DEMONSTRATION How to make great compost from your kitchen and garden waste. A beginner’s guide. with Amanda Godber from Down To Earth Co-Op. Saturday 2.00pm at Whiteshill and Ruscombe allotments GET STARTED ON YOUR ALLOTMENT Are you thinking of starting an allotment or veg patch? Come along to meet Helen Pitel, organic vegetable grower from Down To Earth Co-Op. See how to get started growing your own delicious food – get your questions answered. Sunday 11.00am at 14 Tynings Road Nailsworth GL6 0EJ KEEPING CHICKENS Find out about keeping chickens in your garden with Simon Eeles, a ‘radical ecologist’. Sunday 12.00 noon at Washpool, Horsley with community members. CHILDRENS’ STALL Come and see what the children of Washpool have prepared and enjoy a cream tea. Sunday 2.00pm at Allotment 28 DRAW THE GARDEN Please bring sketchbook, pencil and crayons. Sunday 3.00pm at Jovials Community Orchard SETTING UP A COMMUNITY ORCHARD If you are thinking of setting up a community orchard, garden or shared space, this workshop, led by Community Landscape Officer Katherine Kearns, will give you the information you need. Sunday 4.00pm at Allotment 28 GARDEN STORIES Wednesday 13th July – £10 per person FORAGING WALK Learn how to recognise and find over 20 edible wild plants with Refreshments will be served at several of the venues. Please see timetable and check the website for more information. Over 35 gardens to visit including: • Organic, biodynamic, medicinal and permaculture gardens • individual, community and vegan allotments • new community and mature traditional orchards • chicken, ducks, geese, quails, pigs • rainwater harvesting • small and large scale forest gardens • community shared space Mini workshops and activities will be running at the following times and venues www.edibleopengardens.org.uk Workshops edible open gardens edible open gardens www.edibleopengardens.org.uk
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Transition Stroud is a group of volunteers who work “for thebenefit of the community of the Stroud District to take, andinspire others to take, collaborative actions that strengthenour local community and respond positively to the challengesof climate change and declining energy supplies.”
As well as organising the Edible Open Gardens weekend,Transition Stroud initiatives include:
Eco-Renovation Open HomesSept 10th – 11th 2011
After 3 successful weekends Transition Stroud will again beoffering home owners the opportunity to visit over 20 homesaround Stroud (5 of them new to the open weekends) andfind answers to your home eco-renovation questions. Thisyear the focus will be on fuel poverty.
Skills Gainfocuses on those self reliance skills we will need tomorrowand offers taster courses in these skills today. For moreinformation contact Erik Wilkinson on [email protected]
TripSwitchwhere we are encouraged to use other forms of transportrather than the car.www.stroudtripswitch.co.uk
Changing GearA scheme that encourages secondary school pupils to cycleto and from school during National Bike Week and providescycle training within six secondary schools.
Stroud PoundA local currency designed to benefit customers, traders,businesses and local charities.www.stroudpound.org.uk
Join usIf you would like to join us, or explore working in partnershipwith us, please contact us at [email protected]
www.transitionstroud.org
9th-10th July 2011
TRANSITION STROUDTRANSITION STROUDSaturday 1.00pmat Thrupp allotmentsCOMPOSTING DEMONSTRATIONHow to make great compost from your kitchen and garden waste. A beginner’sguide. with Amanda Godber from Down To Earth Co-Op.
Saturday 2.00pmat Whiteshill and Ruscombe allotments GET STARTED ON YOUR ALLOTMENTAre you thinking of starting an allotment or veg patch? Come along to meetHelen Pitel, organic vegetable grower from Down To Earth Co-Op. See how toget started growing your own delicious food – get your questions answered.
Sunday 11.00amat 14 Tynings Road Nailsworth GL6 0EJ KEEPING CHICKENSFind out about keeping chickens in your garden with Simon Eeles, a ‘radicalecologist’.
Sunday 12.00 noon at Washpool, Horsley with community members.CHILDRENS’ STALLCome and see what the children of Washpool have prepared and enjoy a cream tea.
Sunday 2.00pmat Allotment 28DRAW THE GARDENPlease bring sketchbook, pencil and crayons.
Sunday 3.00pm at Jovials Community Orchard SETTING UP A COMMUNITY ORCHARDIf you are thinking of setting up a community orchard, garden or shared space,this workshop, led by Community Landscape Officer Katherine Kearns, will giveyou the information you need.
Sunday 4.00pmat Allotment 28GARDEN STORIES
Wednesday 13th July – £10 per personFORAGING WALKLearn how to recognise and find over 20 edible wild plants with
Refreshments will be served at several of the venues. Please see timetable and check thewebsite for more information.
Over 35 gardens to visit including:• Organic, biodynamic, medicinal and permaculture gardens
• individual, community and vegan allotments • new community and mature traditional orchards • chicken,ducks, geese, quails, pigs • rainwater harvesting • small and
large scale forest gardens • community shared space
Mini workshops and activities will be running at the following times and venues
www.edibleopengardens.org.uk
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1 Thrupp Allotments, Thrupp Lane W 4 Summer Street Allotments, Stroud
2 Bisley Old Rd, Allotments, Stroud 21 Stroud Slad Farm, The Vatch, Stroud, GL6 7LE
W Workshop 33 4 Cotswold Cottages, Shortwood, Nailsworth, GL6 0SG
Stroud Edible Open Gardens
Over 35 edible gardens and
allotments have signed up to
open to the public to encourage
people to grow and learn more
about food. The gardeners will be
available to share their
knowledge and passion for
growing. This is a chance to
celebrate some of our
wonderfully productive gardens
and local food growing projects in the Stroud Valleys. We want to see if we can reach
lots of people who have never grown veg before.
About 40% of the food we eat is imported. That includes 95% of our fruit and most
of the wheat in our bread. In the 2000 fuel strike, the Sainsbury’s chief executive wrote
Stroud Edible Open Gardens is organised by and supported by:
to the prime minister to warn that food
supplies would run out “in days rather
than weeks”. We saw supermarkets ration
bread, sugar and milk. The situation is
now worse: world food reserves are at
historically low levels. It seems clear that
not only is our dependence on imports
damaging for national food security and
harmful to the environment, it is simply
unsustainable.
We have become dependent on fossil fuels that are starting to run out. Modern
farming is particularly reliant on fossil fuel-derived fertilisers, pesticides and energy-
intensive distribution. But at last awareness is growing. In 2008 a report from the
Cabinet Office concluded that “existing patterns of food production are not fit for a
low-carbon, more resource-constrained future”.
With this Edible Open Gardens project Transition Stroud hope to help people
learn, and inspire more local food production at a lower environmental cost than the
supermarkets. The organisers would like to thank all the gardeners who are making
this weekend possible.
SUNDAY 10.00 – 1.00 SUNDAY 2.00 – 5.00
SATURDAY 10.00 – 1.00 SATURDAY 2.00 – 5.00
TRANSITION STROUDCainscross
Parish CouncilThe Co-operative Membership Community Fund
Smallbiodynamicresearchgarden withmany plants,vegetables, fruitand trees with asmall pond andpolytunnel.
(Annual Open Day with Potato tastingand a Master Composter andexamples of quality testing). Upper Grange, Lovedays Mead,Stroud, GL5 1XB LIMITED PARKINGSat 10.00 - 1.00pm, 2.00-5.00pm
vine, salads, members work thegarden together and share theproduce. Stroud Slad Farm, The Vatch,Stroud, GL6 7LE NO PARKING, park inSummer Street, walk about half a mile.
Sat 2.00 - 5.00pm
A medicinalherb-flower-beegarden. Thestyle of thegardenresembles awild meadow. Stroud SladFarm, TheVatch, Stroud,GL6 7LE
Sat 2.00 - 5.00pm NO PARKING, parkin Summer Street, walk about half mile.
harvesting, and flow form from RuskinMill. Roseleigh, Northfield Road,Nailsworth GL6 0NB Sun 2.00 - 5.00pm PARKING by Jovial Foresters
Thrupp
A no dig vegan(stock free)allotment.Composting,greenhouse,wildlife pond withtoad house, logpile withhedgehog house.
Thrupp Allotments
Sat 10.00 - 1.00pmWORKSHOP - COMPOSTING - 1.00PM
Stroud
Over 40 plotsgrowing amixture oforganic andtraditional veg.Linked to GlobalBee Project, alsonature areas,slow worms and
frogs! Stall on Stroud Farmer's Marketselling surplus products, home madejams and chutneys.Bisley Old Road AllotmentsAssociation GL5 1LPSat 10.00 - 1.00pm
A gardenreformed fromexotic and non-native floweringplants andconifers, notgood for birdsand wildlife.Steep slope built
into layers, now with fruit, veg, herbs,composting, green manure, dry stonewall. Introducing native berry trees.6 Castle Rise, Stroud GL5 2AWSat 10.00 - 1.00pm
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7 plots withsharedcultivation,started throughLETS, individualplots withmixture oftraditional and
organic plots, garden hut forcommunal use.Summer Street Allotments, StroudGL5 1NX Sat 2.00 - 5.00pm
Small familygarden withveg, fruit treessoft fruit (somein awheelbarrow),and play area.Been in house 5
years, with 2 children who both lovegardening.16 Folly Lane, Stroud, GL5 1SDSat 10.00 - 1.00pm
SteepMediterraneangarden with veg(garlic reallygood), fruittrees, soft fruit,herbs, salad.Severalgrapevines
(makes own wine each year), 2greenhouses and compost bins. Beenin house 42 years. 6 Folly Lane, Stroud, GL5 1SDSat 10.00 - 1.00pm
Small familyforest gardenwith freelyroaming hens.17 BoaksDrive,StonehouseGL10 3QWSat 10.00 -1.00pm
Stanleys
Large garden,rainwaterharvesting.Seeds fromHenryDoubleday.
3, StanleyHouse,
Ryford, Stonehouse, GL10 3HH Sat 10.00-1.00pm PARKING SelwynClose
East facingraised beds ona slope,polytunnel,greenhouse,coldframe. vegand fruit. Whenthe ownersarrived it was all
brambles, worked over 2 years. Sunmost of day.Yew Tree Cottage, Upper Kitesnest,Whiteshill GL6 6BQSat 2.00 - 5.00pm
New organicallotments, firston private land.Fantasticcommunityeffort. 12allotments ofdifferent sizes.Growing
blackberry and hedging to helpsecurity.Whiteshill and RuscombeAllotments, Humphrey's End,Ruscombe GL6 6EN PARKING on corneror bus no. 230 Sat 2.00 - 5.00pmWORKSHOP - GETTING STARTED ONAN ALLOTMENT - 2.00pm
Traditional oldorchard with 19standing oldapple trees.Restoringorchard over 9years, plantedanother 20saplings of
local, traditional varieties. Originalorchard trees, most Gloucestershirevarieties. Humphrey's End Orchard,Humphrey's End, RuscombeSat 2.00 - 5.00pm PARKING on corneror bus no. 230
Horsley
Large veg plotand old orchard,fruit and veg,rainwaterharvesting,raised beds inbaths to keepcarrot fly and
badgers at bay. Sugley Farm, Sugley Lane, HorsleyGL6 0SU Sun 10.00 - 1.00pm, 2.00 - 5.00pm
A medium size,sloping gardenwith veggarden, hens,bantams andgeese. Clay soil.TheBungalow,Sugley Lane,Horsley,
Stroud, GL6 0SU Sun 10.00 - 1.00pm
Efficient use ofa relativelysmall, windyslope by usingraised beds,and inspiredmixed plantingof flowers andvegetables.
Badger run (blocked off from garden). Melbourne House, Tickmorend,Horsley GL6 0PESun 10.00 - 1.00pm, 2.00 - 5.00pm
Theescombe
A delightfulsmall, walledgarden with 7raised beds anda minatureorchard (smalltrees M107).Very tall trainedroses and fruittrees.