Dates for your Diary

FEB 19th 10am -2pm: Transition Worcester Seed Swap, at the Community Garden. Back by popular demand. The rule is ‘take what you need, give what you can.’ Bring your own seeds to exchange or give a cash donation. Delicious hot soup will be available!

FEB 12th 10am-2pm THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED: Grafting workshop at the Pumphouse Environment Centre, run in co-operation with Duckworth Worcestershire Trust.

Tony Kennell from Worcester Community Garden and Arthur Rowe, from Worcestershire Orchard Workers will teach you all about tree grafting. Grafting is an ancient skill and a better and more reliable way to guarantee a tree that bears good, healthy fruit than you would get from planting a seed.

This workshop provides an excellent opportunity to learn this skill directly from the experts. On the workshop, you will not only get an opportunity to put what you have learned into practice, at the end of the course you will also be able to take away your own newly grafted fruit tree!

The course costs £5 per person, to help cover costs, and places are limited. If you are interested in attending, please register without delay by emailing us at [email protected].

 

Old North Stables pitching at Worcester Soup

On the 16th October we will be doing a pitch at the Worcester Soup
We could use your support in this.

This event is held at Cafe Bliss at the Arts Workshop
21 Sansome St, Worcester WR1 1UH from 2pm – 6pm.

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What is the Worcester Soup?

Each quarter, Worcester Soup will host a group dinner in Worcester City.

Worcester Soup is a potluck style dinner. You are invited to bring food to share if you want. (usually soup, bread and salad). It is a free dinner. The door fee is for grant funding of local community projects.

  • Worcester residents and supporters donate £4 at the door (you can give more if you want🙂
  • 4 people working on projects that benefit the community get 4 minutes to present their proposals to the group
  • The diners get to ask 4 questions per project
  • Over dinner, diners cast their vote for the project they want to help fund
  • The winning project goes home with all of the money raised on the door
  • Winners come back to a future SOUP dinner to tell us about how the project went!

We will use these funds if we win to fund our running costs, buy seeds and look in to creating more raised beds. To make sure we will get the votes we will need your support and we hope you would be willing to come to the event and support us.

More information about the Worcester Soup can be found on www.worcestersoup.co.uk

Transition Worcester Apple Pressing

This year’s programme of apple pressing events is now underway! Bring surplus apples or pears from your trees and get them pressed into juice with our Orchard Worker volunteers. Please bring your own clean bottles or containers. The events are also a good opportunity to find out about managing your trees for fruit and for wildlife.

All events run from approximately 11 am – 3pm. Here are the venues and dates:

October 201

Please note the event on Saturday 1st October has been canceled
Earth Festival @The Fold – Bransford: Sunday 2nd October
Cripplegate Park (near the Sons of Rest Building): Saturday 8th October
Lyppard Hub, Warndon: Saturday 15th October
The Commandery: Saturday 22th October
The Fold at Bransford: Sunday 23rd October
Ellenden Farm Shop, WR11 8LU: Tuesday 25th October
Evesham Country Park: Thursday 27th October
Pump House Environment Centre: Saturday 29nd October

November 2016
Countryside Centre: Saturday 12th November
Ellenden Farm Shop: Saturday 19th November