It’s great to see other people out foraging & preserving again. I wonder whether anyone shares my concerns about how our hedgerows are managed now?

Updates: we are hoping to go ahead with a Foraging Walk on Saturday 18th September, weather permitting. Meet at 2.30 in the car park opposite the Sturminster Marshall turn on the Beech Avenue, B3082 Blandford Road. Families welcome, but please wear tough clothing & footwear…

The “apple twinning” & equipment exchange ideas seem to be going very well – many, many thanks to all of you who have offered fruit or equipment, and to all who have put these things to good use. Happy cooking/preserving/brewing!

Details for the Re-Skilling day at the Priests House Museum are being firmed up & will be released shortly. Watch this space!

After 12 monthly meetings, it seem to be that the Wimborne Transition Town initiative wants to go slowly. There are many groups in our town doing specific activities that relate to the transition to a post-peak-oil society, and many of us are committed to the ideas that Transition represents.

Our meetings over the last 12 months have often been well attended, but everyone who has come by has many others things going on in their lives to commit to this too. I myself have not been living in Wimborne since September, although I’ve maintained the website and made up posters for meetings. So, speaking to the other wonderful people who have been involved so far, Transition Town Wimborne is going to drop down a gear for now: We will simply do the “Green Drinks” thing and irregular special events for the next while.

Hopefully there soon will be enough people willing to take this project forward, as the need for it becomes more apparent and the success of others Transition initiatives nearby and nationally is seen and heard.

Future events:

• The reskilling day is going ahead on the last Saturday of September, in conjunction with and at the Priest’s House Museum
• We’ll be organising our Apple Days soon too; we have the use of two small cider presses for free
• The next Wimborne Green Drinks will be at 7pm on Thursday 26th August in the White Hart

Continuing our series of regular meetings, the next meeting will be Thursday 15th July, 7pm-9pm, at the Community Learning and Resource Centre (behind the Minster) in the Stour Room.

During previous Transition Town Wimborne meetings, discussion has centred around the activity of the group over 2010. We are running monthly meetings, with specific films or topics/speakers on set dates. This will lead up to a “Party not a Protest” event.

This meeting is a screening of two episodes of the Transition television series “The Powerdown Show,” and then a discussion of the topics raised and local Transition issues.

Later meetings will focus on specific areas of interest related to Transition and act as introductions to them, screen other films, and be open to specialists giving 15 minute talks in their area of expertise.

Download A4 posters here to print out and post on notice boards around town and at your work and social clubs:

• July meeting

Continuing our series of regular meetings, the next meeting will be Wednesday 9th June, 7pm-9pm, at the Community Learning and Resource Centre (behind the Minster) in the Stour Room. The following meeting is Thursday 15th July.

During previous Transition Town Wimborne meetings, discussion has centred around the activity of the group over 2010. We are running monthly meetings, with specific films or topics/speakers on set dates. This will lead up to a “Party not a Protest” event.

This meeting is a screening of two episodes of the Transition television series “The Powerdown Show,” and then a discussion of the topics raised and local Transition issues.

Later meetings will focus on specific areas of interest related to Transition and act as introductions to them, screen other films, and be open to specialists giving 15 minute talks in their area of expertise.

Download A4 posters here to print out and post on notice boards around town and at your work and social clubs:

• June meeting
• July meeting

Continuing our series of regular meetings, the next meeting will be Thursday 13th May, 7pm-9pm, at the Community Learning and Resource Centre (behind the Minster) in the Stour Room. This is a change from the previously announced date. The following meetings are on Wednesday 9th June, 7pm-9pm, and Thursday 15th July.

During previous Transition Town Wimborne meetings, discussion has centred around the activity of the group over 2010. We are running monthly meetings, with specific films or topics/speakers on set dates. This will lead up to a “Party not a Protest” event.

This meeting is a screening of two episodes of the Transition television series “The Powerdown Show,” and then a discussion of the topics raised and local Transition issues.

Later meetings will focus on specific areas of interest related to Transition and act as introductions to them, screen other films, and be open to specialists giving 15 minute talks in their area of expertise.

Download A4 posters here to print out and post on notice boards around town and at your work and social clubs:

• May meeting
• June meeting
• July meeting

“Well, what a lovely lady! And what an inspired idea and a Grand Adventure. Steph’s walking around most of the Transition Towns, cities & villages of England over the next 6 months, entirely on foot, collecting up our stories as she goes. I met her on Canford Bridge, brought her back to my home for a lunch of nettle-and-leftover veg soup and homemade bread, accompanied by my daughter’s very refreshing home-made ginger beer, a rest in my comfortable post-op chair & footstool (rescued from the Tip for a fiver) and a good natter; the budgies couldn’t get a word in edgeways. Then we strolled through Wimborne, noting the course of the rivers & millstreams that used to power the town, & marking all the genuinely local shops we have left like Burtons the Butchers and Minster Greens.

We’d just inspected the Jubilee herb Garden behind the Town Hall when we met up with Tom from Gaunt’s House, who had kindly offered to host her for the night. I may have been feeling a bit down in the dumps before her visit, that we hadn’t really managed to achieve anything much here yet… But she’s left me feeling inspired and energised, and Nicky’s 100% right with the idea that we just keep on popping up, nibbling away at people’s consciousness, until we break through. Steph’s advice is that whilst it may look as if nothing’s happening, momentum is quietly building in the background. So, onwards and upwards!

I’m going to be trying to arrange the Re-Skilling day this week. With any luck we’ll be able to go for the week before the Folk Festival, ie the first weekend of June, which is also the first weekend of halfterm, which doesn’t leave long to organise things. As I’m also organsing the Dorset WSD Guild’s stand for the County Show, as well as attending various Craft Fairs in my own right over the summer, I’d be glad of some help on the organisational front, if anyone could spare the odd half-hour?”

Continuing our series of regular meetings on the first Thursday of every month; the next meeting will be Thursday 13th May, 7pm-9pm, at the Community Learning and Resource Centre (behind the Minster).

This date has changed to the 13th!

During previous Transition Town Wimborne meetings, discussion has centred around the activity of the group over 2010. We are running monthly meetings, with specific films or topics/speakers on set dates. This will lead up to a “Party not a Protest” event.

This meeting is a screening of two episodes of the Transition television series “The Powerdown Show,” and then a discussion of the issues raised and local Transition issues.

Later meetings will focus on specific areas of interest related to Transition and act as introductions to them, screen other episodes of The Powerdown Show, and be open to specialists giving 15 minute talks in their area of expertise.

We are planning a quarterly stall at the Farmer’s Market to help raise awareness of Transition Towns.

Download an A4 poster here to print out and post on notice boards around town and at your work and social clubs!

The recipe that was available at the stall is now online as a Word Document Download