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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

Welcome to the Transition Worcester Potato Bash 2016.
This is your chance to take part in a fun potato growing competition, see just how many spuds you can grow for yourself, and you might even win one of two cash prizes!

PICK UP YOUR POTATO AT THE OLD NORTH STABLES OR THE LANDSDOWNE ALLOTMENT SHOP FOR JUST £1

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The rules:

• Entry is £1
• £10 cash prize for the heaviest total yield from a single seed potato (supplied by Transition Worcester)
• £5 cash prize for the heaviest single grown potato (seed potato supplied by Transition Worcester)

What should I do?

1. Pay £1 to enter the competition.
2. Pick your potato from the authorised Transition Worcester Potato Bash potato supplier
3. Take your potato home and ‘chit’ it.
4. When you want to, get a pot and compost, and plant your potato.
5. Note that you MUST grow your potato plant in a pot or container (no bigger than 30 litres*) and not in the open ground. The growing medium you use is up to you.
6. Look after your potato plant.
7. Bring your potato plant, in its pot, to the Transition Worcester stall at the Worcester Flower Show, Gheluvelt Park on Sunday 14th August, by 1pm at the latest.

*As a guide: 30 Litres = 31cm x 31cm x 31cm (approx) or a cylinder 30cm diameter and 42cm depth.

The Transition Worcester Plant Swap will be taking place on Saturday 7th May from 11am to 3pm.

Join us at the Old North Stables for veg seedlings, advice and to chat with like minded people. Have a tour of the site, where you’ll see the initial progress on the Forest Garden project, as well as the floating beehives…. that’s right beehives that can float! Also, while you’re there why not pick up your official Potato Bash competition spud!

We’ll have the usual range of veg seedlings (tomatoes, peppers, beans etc), and fruit bushes available, and of course the things that we don’t know about that other people will bring on the day.