Past Events October 6, 2008

Over the last few weeks events have been held at the Willow Tree Health centre there has been some drop in taster sessions on what is going on. These have been repeated on the same day usually a Thursday evening where people have been on hand to answer any questions on the Grow It Cook It Eat It campaign.

At one session held at the Willow Tree Health Centre a group of interested people were asking how they could facilitate the sustainable growing of vegetables as well as flowers as a continuation of the alley gating which had taken place in their area.

With the rising price of food it is of interest to us all with ever increasing demands upon our purse strings and balancing the needs of our stomachs with our budget allowances.

Previously we went to a screening at St Aidan’s in Charlestown, Salford on how Cuba coped with not peak oil (which we have yet to reach in a few more years) but having no oil at all. The long and the short of it is that they are now healthier and have a better education system, than before the collapse of Russia in the early 1990’s.

 

Taken from Permaculture U.K. website

Permaculture was used as a means to an ends, mainly because of trade restrictions and no support from the IMF or the World Bank. Cuba was on its own, through imorts of bicycles from China the immediate problem of transport was solved, they now have car sharing and free public transport as the norm.

There is a thriving permaculture taking place in the U.K. where urban spaces from waste land to back alley have been transformed into a growing space see http://www.permaculture.org.uk