TTWK update

Hi and welcome to the latest update from TTWK. Below you will find details on:

Lantern workshop tomorrow Saturday
St Bridgets harvest lunch and debate
Patrick Holden visit
Allotments update
West Kirby Garden Orchard
Fungus Foray – Advance Notice
Tree planting day – November 21st
TTWK donations to West Kirby Library
How to grow fruit & veg – 6 week course starting soon

Lantern Workshop
This workshop is tomorrow October 3rd 11am-4pm at the Scout Hut, Grange Community Park (top of Lang Lane). Design and build your own lantern in preparation for the Travelling Light procession to be held on November 11th. This workshop is for any age. Over 30 people are already booked in but there are still a few places left. Booking essential. Tel 625 8474. Participation is free but donations welcome.

Fair Trade and Transition Towns: Are they compatible?
St Bridgets church West Kirby is holding a bring and share harvest lunch this Sunday followed by a discussion on the above topic. Bring some food to share for lunch at 12:15 followed by a debate from 1-2pm. Everyone welcome.

Patrick Holden Visit
‘Food and Farming in Transition’, with Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association. 25th November at 8pm at Westbourne Hall, Westbourne Road, CH48 4DQ. A chance for producers and consumers to come together and discuss how local food can be supported.
Spaces for this event are limited to just 200 and are already selling fast. Recipients of this newsletter have the opportunity to reserve tickets via our on-line reservation form or by calling 632 5366. Tickets cost £3.50 each.

Allotments
Thanks to so many of you for signing the petition asking for land in West Kirby to be made available for allotments. At a meeting of the council's Sustainable Communities Committee, councillors resolved to endorse the development of a new site in West Kirby (and four others in Wirral), subject to further work by officers. We will be contacting those who offered to help get things started. For more info contact ttwk.food@gmail.com West Kirby Garden Orchard The vision is for a fruit tree in every garden in West Kirby. Orders for fruit trees must be placed by 16th October. For more details see www.transitiontownwestkirby.org.uk/garden_orchard.htm

Fungus Foray
Advance notice of a local fungus foray, (provisional date Saturday 7th November). We are privileged to have mycologist Ted Tuddenham of the Famous Haringey Fungus Foray, to lead this. Firm details available soon. Places will be limited. Email ttwk.food@gmail.com for more details or to book a place.

Community Orchard Tree Planting Day - Sat 21st Nov, 10am - 3.30pm Come and plant a fruit tree and help Wirral grow more local food. Bring your wellies and a spade if possible. Lunch provided. Why not sponsor a tree for a loved one? Meet at Scout Hut, Grange Park (top of Lang Lane), West Kirby, CH48 5HH. For more details contact Friends of Grange Community Park (FROG), 31 Somerset Rd, West Kirby. CH48 6EJ, or email ttwk.food@gmail.com

New books donated by TTWK and appearing shortly in West Kirby library - Local Food: How to Make it Happen in Your Community - Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkins - Cook Your Own Veg - Carol Kline - Vegetable Growing Month by Month - John Harrison - The Right way to Keep Chickens - Virginia Shirt

How to grow fruit & veg
Would anyone like to car share to the following course? contact ttwk.food@gmail.com RHS Outdoor Food Crops - 6 week course at Ness Gardens - starts Thurs 5th Nov, 1-3.30pm. Perfect for gardeners with some experience wanting to expand their knowledge or an ideal first qualification for those wishing to pursue a career in horticulture. A module of the RHS Level 2 Certificate in Horticulture, this may be studied as a stand-alone course. For further details, contact course tutor Andrew Lambie on andylambie@btinternet.com or 07854 809849. Fee: £40 To book: Welsh College of Horticulture 01352 841000 www.nessgardens.org.uk

And finally…..a mention for the Jonathon Porritt lectures on RECESSION AND RECOVERY: IT'S THE ECOLOGY, STUPID. Mon 19th Oct at 6.30pm, free public lecture at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Entrance by ticket only - 0151 709 3789