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Kinsale Food Club

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Locally grown food at a fair price


Kinsale Food Club is working with two local farmers to grow oats and potatoes using a new system of  food production known as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

These days farmers are mainly getting supported in the dairy and beef sector of farming. So it’s up to us the local community to support the farmer and encourage them to grow vegetables so that they are fresh and easily sourced for us. This creates a stronger link to our food and creates community resilience.

This a great idea, instead of buying and paying for our oats and spuds every week, we pay for it all in one go. Let’s put it this way €240 for a years supply is only approximately €8 a week for local spuds, and that is just for a full share. You could do a half share instead which is even cheaper / €4 per week. So if it’s local and organic it’s going to be fresher, we also use less carbon as we are not transporting from afar. We are also helping to strengthen the local economy..............................................continued

Last Updated ( Monday, 12 July 2010 11:20 )
 

Bringing Eco Education to Ireland in a Fun Positive Way !!

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Hi everybody,

I’m really hoping to network with a lot of people around Ireland to promote Eco-Education here in Ireland..Education For Sustainability of Transition Town Kinsale really want to bring  these
guys to Ireland after hearing Klaus (our colleague on the Transition Town
Kinsale Steering Commitee) rave about them after he saw them at Transition
Conference in London UK.I’ve seen Klaus  use some of their techniques
already at our recent Transition Gathering with great success and hilarity. So
now I’m in contact with them via skype and email to see if we can organise them
coming over here to work with Transition and other environmental groups in Ireland.


Read below for further details on their wonderful work.

Moving Sounds are an imaginative group who work with Transition
communities all over the UK doing workshops on causes and consequences
of climate change and the broader ecological issues in a fun,positive,
entertaining and often hilarious way.So wouldn't it be great if we availed of them over here too?
Moving Sounds
An example of one of their workshops would be a musical story-telling
workshop about 'How to Make the Best World Imaginable'. They have a new
show aimed at teenagers consisting of video footage,live
performance,rap,electronic and live music and some clowning. This work
has been inspired by Joanna Macy Eco-Philosopher.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 May 2010 16:25 )
 

Education For Sustainability

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Education For Sustainability are holding a fund raising fun event this

coming thurs 2nd at 7.30pm.It looks like it's going to be an exciting fun

event with games and live bands and food.Watch out for the surprise

outside at the commencement of the Haunted Samhain Carnival.

Education For Sustainability Haunted Carival

 

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:20 )
 

Down at the Community Garden.... jun 09

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  Summer is here!!! Well It was, then it wasn't, then it was again; all very confusing but fingers are still crossed that mother nature will provide us with a nice warm season this year. The community garden has definitely come on with some of the warmer weather and the veg beds are filling up. It has been an interesting process to watch the garden change colour throughout the seasons and now it has become a green sea of both crops and plants of a less deliberate nature. But non the less the garden is a hive of activity especially that of bees around the flowering Comfrey patch and the beautiful crimson flowered Broad Beans. 

Sunday workdays have been continuing as usual, (1-4pm) and we have now been welcoming volunteers on Thursday evenings too (6.30-8.30pm), to help at this busy time of year, maintaining the garden, tending the crops and of course harvesting. Any produce from the garden goes to those who have come to help out so what better incentive to come and join in than some fresh tasty vegetables to enjoy when you get home. We have already had a bumper harvest of salads and in the coming months we can look forward to our main summer crops of peas, broad beans, French beans carrots, courgettes and more. So if you're interested to get stuck in growing fresh food or just would like to come and see what's going on please join us on Thursdays or Sundays and see what you come home with! Also, look out for our Summer open day and barbeque so that everyone can come and  have a taste!

 

Down at the community garden...

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  We are having lovely harvests thanks to the warm wet weather we have been receiving. The broad beans, kale, garlic, beetroot, spuds and salads have all been cut, pinched off or pulled from the ground much to our satisfaction.  All this lovely produce can then be shared between out helpers and the local community around us, which is what it's all about!

Work days:  Sundays 1-4pm  Thursdays 6.30-8.30

It seems there are lots of edible and community gardening projects springing up around Kinsale what with the school gardens facilitated through the education for sustainability programme and the new allotments which are thriving. The more the merrier I say!!!  Because of all the hard work that is going into these community growing projects Transition Town Kinsale has decided to reward them. Following suit from the highly successful Bandon community garden awards TTK will also be giving awards for the best community garden scheme in Kinsale. Look out in September for our launch of the awards and to find out how your community or group can get involved.

 
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What is Transition Town Kinsale

Transition town Kinsale (TTK) is a group of concerned residents who work together to raise issues of sustainable living. Concerned with more than the environment, TTK has developed new means of transport, started the community garden, planted trees, etc. Thank you for visiting and we hope to see you at one of our regular events soon.
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