Tuesday, February 3, 2015

The New Site Progresses

The cabin is being built and, hopefully, we’ll get on to the new patch soon. Lots to do so come along on a workday if you can.

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Poor Ducks

Have you heard? The Fox has got into the Railway Orchard and we now have 2 less ducks. Check out Malcolm’s posts on FB.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Grow veg and help save wildlife

Dorset Wildlife Trust are championing ‘Wild About Gardens’ week by teaming up with Transition Town Dorchester for the launch of a new ‘Incredible edibles’ scheme on Tuesday 29th October in the Dorchester Wildlife Garden. The Garden is sited in the grounds of All Saints Church on the corner of Ackland Road and High East Street …

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

This Shiny New Website

It was a fair while coming but I’m sure you’ll all agree it looks good. More ‘organic’ than the previous version. There will be things that need sorting but that’s no surprise with something new. If you see anything you don’t get just leave a comment and I’ll take a look. For example the dates …

Friday, January 14, 2011

More Updates

Didn’t get to tell it all last time so here’s some extras.The Pond has been dug – but not quite as planned. It was decided by the Wildlife Team that a slightly* different arrangement would be more beneficial to wildlife and be a little more aesthetical…

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Updates

There’s been quite a lot of activity offsite so I thought it timely to say where we’re at.Workdays have been a bit sporadic but then its been Celebration Season, and the weather’s been pretty miserable. Subject to climate* the next workday is scheduled…

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Brrrrrr….

It’s been b****y cold just lately.The Farm ended up with a good layer of snow, and under that a good layer of what might be likened to permafrost. I couldn’t get a garden fork more than about 1 cm into the soil – thus scuppering any chance of achieving…

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Under Lanche Community Farm 2010-12-14 18:01:00

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Dig This!

The Duchy folk have come good again.Kevin’s offer of a digger to form the pond was honoured yesterday (Friday) and we now have the basis for the pond. Mike and Glenys were instrumental in settling on the final layout. All thanks to them too. All we nee…

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Scuppered by the Weather

Hmm.What can you say? We turned up last Saturday with all good intentions. At least it had stopped snowing on Friday so there was some hope some work could be done – but no sooner had we brewed up and supped our tea in preparation to get busy, it raine…

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Edible Hedge

Saturday the 13th saw about 15 of us down at the Farm planting the “trees” donated by the Woodland Trust. The pack contained over 100 trees and shrubs of varying sizes and consisted of dog rose, crab apple, elder, hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel and sea bu…

Thursday, October 21, 2010

It’s a Laugh!

One of our number is Mark who organises the Comedy Club at various times and venues in Dorchester. He decided he’d like to donate the profits from these to Transition Town Dorchester for use on its projects.The first of these donations, a little over ?…

First Workday.

And a fine day it was, too.About a dozen of us all turned out to mark out the areas on-site that had been agreed on the plan. We now have a good idea where the Chicken run, raised beds, polytunnel and pond are going.The new gate has been installed, cou…

Thursday, September 16, 2010

I’ts just the Beginning Pt 2

It all started like this.Whilst at a Transition Town Dorchester Food group meeting I had this harebrained idea that it would be nice if Dorchester had a community farm. Inspired by the book “Local Food – How to make it happen in your community” (want t…

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

It’s just the beginning

Hi All,Eventually got around to starting the blog.If anyone wants to contribute then just forward copy to me at rentman(at)mac.com and I’ll publish. Please feel free to comment by choosing the (would you believe) COMMENT tag at the bottom of the entry.Ian

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Parkway Farm Community Garden

You’ve read it here first….Site confirmed!… We are very please to announce that the Duchy of Cornwall have granted us a lease on 2 acres of land at Parkway Farm to the South of Weymouth College Construction Centre at Poundbury to establish …

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Great Reskilling?

Is it underway already? Found this on the Transition Culture blog. Its a BBC Radio 4 Food Programme. A really inspiring enterprise. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a similar such operation in Dorset. Go have a listen. Just click on the link.Ian

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Part-time Carnivore

Ever considered reducing the amount of meat you eat, either for your own health or that of the planets? The figures are quite remarkable. From memory a chicken consumes 6 times more energy than it produces. For pork its more like 10 times and for beef …

Thursday, March 11, 2010

GM Food

Do you read the Transition Culture blog? You should.Rob’s last entry was all about GM food which should be of concern to all of us. I’d recommend you also read the comments at the end of his entry, especially the bit about the EU sanctioning the growin…

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Get Planting!

The 8th of May sees Transition Town Dorchester celebrate it’s 2nd birthday at St George’s Church Hall, Fordington. To raise money for TTD coffers a plant swap/sale is being organised for the event so when you’re sowing this years seeds sow a few extra…