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Town Grown – Food growing chat and advice
Seasonal growing advice and tips from Vicki Cooke.
Town Grown: a food grower’s network, Transition Town Hastings’ new project to support food growing throughout the town. Stay up to date by signing up to The Town Grown newsletter, Facebook, and Instagram
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The Big (Jubilee) Lunch
https://www.edenprojectcommunities.com/the-big-jubilee-lunch
Save Sunday 5 June for the return of The Big Lunch, aka The Big Jubilee Lunch this year in honour of the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. No matter what your perspective on the monarchy, this is always a wonderful way to celebrate the power of fabulous food to connect people.
Bring a dish and drink to share and TTH will supply the tables and gazebo!
We’re really excited to be back in Warrior Square Gardens again this year after a two year break – fingers crossed that our unbroken record of warm, sunny weather continues!
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TOWN GROWN May/June Programme
5 May COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
Town Grown is looking for experienced volunteers who would be interested in the launch of a community assisted agriculture (CSA) project. Initial meeting on
The Common Room, 27 Cambridge Rd, 5pm – 6pm, all welcome.Sat 7 May TOWN GROWN SEED & SEEDLING SWAP
Bring along any surplus seeds and seedlings to swap with other local growers at the Transition Town Hastings stall.
Leonards King’s Rd market from 1pm – 3pmSTATION GARDEN GROWING SESSION
Meet expert food grower Vicki Cooke for practical advice and hands-on seed sowing demonstration.
Warrior Square Station Garden (access from Station Approach). 2pm – 3pmWed 11 May BEGINNERS GUIDE TO GROWING VEG
Practical advice and tips on how to get growing, with experienced grower Vicki Cooke.
Bohemia Walled Garden, Summerfields Woods, Bohemia Rd, 6-8pmThur 12 May FORAGER’S GARDEN BOOK LAUNCH & TALK
Hear Anna Locke talk about her recent book; an accessible introduction to permaculture and planting an edible garden.
St Mary in the Castle, drinks from 6pm, talk starts at 6:30pmThur 19 May PLANTING A FORAGER’S BORDER
Learn how to plan and plant an edible border with Anna Locke. An introduction to growing food in harmony with nature, even when space is limited.
The Common Room, 27 Cambridge Rd, Hastings, 6:30-8pmThur 9 June INTRODUCTION TO GROWING OYSTER MUSHROOMS
Chris Richards, local oyster mushroom grower, will introduce you to the wonderful world of mushrooms and in particular gourmet oyster mushrooms. You’ll learn about the life cycle of mushrooms and how they’re grown locally on waste coffee grounds from local cafes in a low tech way that reduces food miles and the need for big agriculture. At the end of the workshop you’ll be able to take home an oyster mushroom grow kit to grow your own oyster mushrooms at home.
The Common Room, 27 Cambridge Rd, Hastings, 6-8 pm.Stay up to date by signing up to The Town Grown newsletter, Facebook, and Instagram
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Letters to the Earth workshop & Pot Luck Dinner
Join the Culture Declares Emergency Southeast Coastal Hub for a free workshop that explores responses to the climate and ecological emergency.Letters to the Earth is a creative participatory campaign that has generated, received and amplified thousands of letters to or from the Earth from people all over the world.
All ages are welcome. Please register at https://onca.org.uk/event/letters-to-the-earth-workshop/This workshop will create space for participants to share thoughts and feelings about the climate and ecological emergency, and facilitate the generation of creative and personal responses through the writing and sharing of Letters – which can be to or from the Earth, another species, person, moment in time or place.Expect new conversations and a chance to find common ground and new collaborations.
The facilitator is Kay Michael, a theatre-maker, co-founder of Culture Declares and the director of Letters to the Earth.It will be followed by Transition Town Hastings’ Food for Thought zero-waste potluck supper (7-9pm) – please bring a dish to share if you would like to stay on for the evening. -
Beyond the Beach Clean / Free community film screening
Plastic is cheap, cheerful and very convenient – and it’s also made from fossil fuels and threatening the health of every living thing on the planet.
You’re invited to take part in series of ‘long-game’ conversations about our problems with plastic, hosted by Strandliners, Wonderfill and Transition Town Hastings.
Thursday, 3 February and Thursday, 17 February / No booking required
The series will start on Thursday, 3 February at 7pm with us coming together to hear how local thought-leaders see the nature of the challenge.
They’ll set out their stalls (literally and figuratively!) and, hopefully, pose a few provocative questions.Global challenge, local solutions
Between our 3rd and 17th February conversations, we’ve arranged community-viewing permission for the feature-length film, The Story of Plastic, which you can access through the Eventbrite link here.This means you can watch the film at home at whatever time suits, between the 12th and 16th of February. Then join the conversation again on the 17th , when we’ll reconvene to share our thoughts and impressions, and use our collective wisdom and impact, to begin the ‘long game’ of changing our behaviour and phasing out the use of plastics.
We look forward to starting the conversation with you!
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FOOD PRESERVATION & FERMENTING WORKSHOP
FOOD PRESERVATION & FERMENTING WORKSHOP Thursday 20 Jan 7-9pm The Common Room 27 Cambridge Rd TN34 1HG Learn how to make sauerkraut, preserved carrots and garlic in honey with Hastings fermenter @garrettworld
email chrisrichards999@hotmail.com for info. No need to book.
If you’d like to make your own sauerkraut on the day please see the following ingredients list
Ingredients: A cabbage, if you want to make the sauerkraut
and Carrots for a simple brine ferment.You’ll need a knife/chopping board, a large bowl and a large jar (kilner type for krauts) or smallish jar(carrots).
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Monthly Pot Luck Supper
Potluck supper
in the Common Room (27-29 Cambridge Road, Hastings)Bring a dish and drinks to share (and your own plate and cutlery, please!)
