Transition Sudbury and District: Food Meters

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13 August 2016

Landescape - historic foraging walk

15 July 2016

The Apricot Centre: The Edible Garden Series

13 July 2016

22 April 2016

Preserving class with the Jam Shed

Tour of Fulibroch Dairy, Bures St Mary

23 February 2016

22 February 2016

5 February 2016

Fruit tree grafting course 13 February

Suffolk Traditional Orchard Group

Fruit Tree Grafting Course Sat 13th Feb 2016 10am – 4pm

Would you like to learn to graft fruit trees? Is there a favourite tree that you would like to propagate? Perhaps there’s a tasty apple in a friend’s garden you would like to grow or a special plum you remember from childhood? And you can also help us by grafting trees that we will give to amenity orchards in Suffolk.

If the event is oversubscribed we will run further courses.

Workshop format:

· Discussion of traditional fruit tree propagation techniques.

· Demonstration of grafting and budding

· Practical experience in grafting, mainly using the whip-and-tongue graft method.

Venue: Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Foxburrow Farm, Saddlemaker’s Lane, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1NA

Cost: FREE - EVERYONE WELCOME!

Booking essential. Further info available on booking. Tea and coffee provided, please bring your own lunch.

Please note there is a risk of minor cuts. We suggest that no one concerned about handling sharp knifes should attend. The course is not suitable for children.

Contact: Paul Read paul@home–farm.myzen.co.uk

26 January 2016

Sudbury Farmers' Market dates

17 September 2015

Thank you! From The Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm

Its great the farm has raised the money it needed, still time to donate to fund the purchase of fruit trees and bushes that will create a future income stream.

9 August 2015

Save The Oak Tree

Please could you circulate this around your e-mail contacts and encourage them to spread the word - and donate!

The Oak Tree is a unique Low-Carbon Community Farm on the edge of Ipswich which has grown from small beginnings, and very impoverished soil, in 2010 to a vibrant community producing weekly veg-boxes, eggs and pork for over 70 families, and is now a safe haven for much wildlife. It is a Permaculture Association Land Demonstration Farm and has won numerous awards including the Suffolk Carbon Charter Gold Standard and the Creating the Greenest County 'Community: Local Food Award. It has also been featured in The Guardian and on ITV. But the unexpected loss of some major promised funding means it may have to close within months.

But ... it is fighting back with a crowd-funding initiative which has raised an amazing £10,000 in its first week! https://www.indiegogo.com/save-the-oak-tree#/ However ... unless it can get to its target of £27,000 by the end of September it will have to close. It has lots of supporters but needs more! Closure would be a tragedy, not only for the growers but for the whole idea of small scale, community-led, low-carbon and environmentally beneficial farming of which it is a shining example. Can you help, even in a little way?

See what a buzzy, up-beat place it is on the Farm Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ and its own brilliantly informative website which has these FAQs about the campaign: http://www.the-oak-the-savetheoaktree-

Please do what you can, even if it is just passing this on, sharing, tweeting or telling everyone you know and lots of people you don't. But the main thing is to get the money in https://www.indiegogo.com/save-the-oak-tree#/

Please donate NOW, even a couple of quid would help.

Many thanks