EMBER?
Sustainable Hackney ‘Education for Sustainability (EfS) Network’ is working with Hackney Council to make Hackney a Beacon Borough for Education for Sustainability
Find out how to start YOUR school on the road to sustainability and environmental awareness plus all the benefits it brings to our children.
Think you can’t be Sustainable and Maintain High Academic Standards?
Discover How You CAN Do This, the Support Available AND How You Can SAVE MONEY by meeting us at Hackney’s only Green Flag Eco-School – Orchard Primary School, Holcroft Rd, London E9 7BB
On Thursday 21st June at 4.15 – 5.45 pm
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hackney-education-for- sustainability-tickets-46814525506
Or sustainablehackneyefsnetwork@gmail.com
(and email us if you are interested and can’t make it)
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oo. There’s a café in Springfield Park if you want a hot drink, comfort break or place to rendezvous afterwards. What’s a Wassail? Our urban wassail draws on the old tradition of waking the apple trees from their winter sleep, to ensure a good harvest for the year ahead. It’s just a fun way to spend some time, all faiths and none are welcome. Expect to be invited to join in with some singing, hearty and loud and no skills required! Or just join us for the craic. We provide song sheets, and there’ll be some warm cider, apple juice and apple themed nibbles. Please bring some little thing to share too if you can. How does the Wassail work? Join us at the start on Hackney Downs, or halfway at Millfields Park, or our final stop at Springfield Park. It’s roughly a 30-minute stroll between locations. The whole route is about two and half miles.
It’s FREE to come along, but at each location we’ll be taking a collection to cover costs, and any extra will be donated to London Action for the Homeless.
Do check our website http://hackneywassail.org.uk/ for any last-minute news, we actually had to cancel last year’s wassailing due to extreme weather.…
Imagine growing your own apples, berries, rhubarb and strawberries. Or artichokes, hops, rocket and thyme. By using plants with different heights, you'd be using all the space in your garden. AND with a single blitz of planting, you'd enjoy a rolling harvest throughout the year, every year. Come on this one day course and learn about forest gardening - a no-dig approach that's kind to wildlife and to your back.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
* learn the basics of forest gardening - what makes them work, how they are structured and what they produce
* take a look at practical examples of forest garden designs and spend time producing your own forest garden design
* try eating some forest garden produce at lunch, which normally includes a forest garden salad, pickles and pesto
* meet the plants in the forest garden at Edible Landscapes London, Finsbury Park
USEFUL TO KNOW
Location: The training mostly takes place in a cosy living room and in the afternoon we walk 5 minutes to Finsbury Park, to meet the plants
Cost: £65 / £40 concessions which includes snacks, drinks and a detailed handout to take home. If you book onto a Plantastic Cloning course at the same time, the bundle price is £110 / £70.
GIFT service. If you are booking this as a present for someone else we can post or email you a gift card.…
Tree Musketeers' Programme, Autumn 2011
Our new programme is below.
Sunday 18th September, 10:30am - 1pm
Weeding and mulching Hackney Downs Orchard.
Meet at the lock-up on the Bowling Green or find
n 12 weekend days over a year starting on May 20th, giving you the best opportunity to learn a wide range of seasonally appropriate skills to help you create incredible, thriving community orchards. You'll gain a detailed understanding of trees, learning how plant, prune and propagate them as well as identify them throughout the year. You'll also learn about soil, pests and diseases, biodiversity and how to work effectively in groups. In addition, you'll take specialist classes in areas that interest you the most, such as orchard design, veteran tree management and apple identification. Limited spaces. Full details here: http://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/courses…
This guide is aimed at helping community groups conserve or create community orchards. A
compendium of case studies has been produced to illustrate the great work that is going on in
communities