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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Come along to a public drop in session to discuss how a grant from the Big Lottery could help local communities become more sustainable. Featuring information on energy efficiency, eco schools, community energy schemes, food production, flood warning networks, climate change impacts on tourism and farming, renewable energy, allotments and community gardening, fuel pverty and …
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Greendor 2012 is Dorchester’s first Open Eco-Homes weekend. Homes with eco-features will open up to the public on the weekend of 8th and 9thSeptember, during the annual Dorset Architectural Heritage Week. This is a chance to see how to green your home, and chat to people who’ve done it. Among the features that can be seen …
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Come and help us grow some in the centre of Dorchester at the Railway Community Orchard. We have regular workdays on the 1st Saturday of every month and you’ll find us there from 11.00am until 3.00pm. The orchard has been created on what was an area of overgrown land and we’ve been very busy clearing …
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Green Drinks hosted by Transition Town Dorchester is a regular monthly event and is held in Goldie’s, Dorchester on the 1st Thursday of each month. This international green social networking phenomenon offers a chance for people who are interested in environmental issues to meet socially for a drink and a chat. Started in London in 1989, …
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Greendor 2012 is Dorchester’s first Open Eco-Homes weekend. Homes with eco-features will open up to the public on the weekend of 8th and 9thSeptember, during the annual Dorset Architectural Heritage Week. This is a chance to see how to green your home, and chat to people who’ve done it. Among the features that can be …
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Don’t forget! Regular Community Farm workdays are held every month on the 2nd Saturday and the 4th Sunday 10am – 3pm. It’s not all work! We have a shared lunch (bring what you like) and cups of tea on tap, lots of chat – get to know someone new? A good social gathering interspersed with shared growing, sowing, …
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Monday, January 23, 2012
The next farm workday will be on Sunday 29th January….yes, I know that’s the 5th Sunday this month, but we’ve had to rearrange to avoid having two in a row….. it’s 10-ish until 3-ish with shared lunch in the middle. Lots to do, so hope you can come!
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
We had a great day at the Orchard on Sunday. A large area was prepared for tree planting on the next workday (4th Feb), and while we dug we were serenaded by violins, a guitar and singing – and best of all there was a record turnout of about 20 people …oh and the sun shined. …
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Monday, November 14, 2011
When Lorraine Wong (right) decided to borrow an electricity monitor from our loan scheme, she had very little idea how much electricity she was using in her everyday life. Six months later, at the close of the scheme, the monitor has helped her to make behavioural changes that have saved her money, reduced her carbon …
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Underlanche Community Farm was given a mention in a talk given a while ago by Rob Hopkins at the 2011 Tagore Festival held at Dartington. You’ll find it 24 minutes into the video which is called: ‘Transition as Cookery: my presentation at the 2011 Tagore Festival In today’s post on Transition Culture, Rob says “A …
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
‘Gaia – the Cabaret!’ “The Gaia cabaret is the most fun you can have with science. Peter Horton covers 14 billion years in the space of an hour and a half, and shows us that we humans take ourselves far too seriously: as far as Gaia is concerned, the bacteria are far more important than …
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Come and have a look! We’re getting on! Our next workday is this Sunday the 22nd of May. Shared Lunch (bring what you like) and cups of tea on tap. A good social gathering interspersed with some work. What could be better! Ian
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And Now for Something Completely Different Tickets also available on the door. Ian
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
AGM Saturday 7th May And this year we’ve negotiated with the Railway Orchard folk to hold the event at their site. Come and have a look at one of our projects and DON’T FORGET to bring some plants to swap. The Orchard Group will be having a workday until about 2 pm when the AGM …
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Come and help put the polytunnel up! – It’s your farm!
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
We walked into the orchard and pessimistically surveyed the endless piles of dead brambles. The plan for today was to move all the piles to the end where it could all rot and leave us space to get on with planting. But the task before us seemed daunting, Olympian, even. Various methods were used to …
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