Following the success of last year’s event we will be holding our second Local Food Day on Saturday. We will have paper potting and seed planting, herb selling and havesting, a composting workshop and mocktail fruit drinks on offer. Activities will be held at the Community Herb Sharing Garden on the Rothsay/Castle Road roundabout and [...]

On Saturday 6th March ZCC and our Bedford in Bloom friends (BTCV, Kempston in Bloom, Taste Real Food, Transition Bedford) will be holding the first food growing event planned for 2010 – Seed Sharing Saturday. The event will be held at the Bunyan Free Meeting Church on Mill Street Bedford in the main hall and [...]

Mile Road Allotments are doing some community tree planting on their site on Sat.20th and Sun. 21st February. There will be hot drinks all day and warming soup for lunch. All are welcome. The allotment site is next door to John Bunyan School and the Bunyan Centre.

Our first meeting of 2010 is planned for Tuesday 5th January at the Gordon Arms on Castle Road (7.30pm). All are welcome. Please bring your best ideas and diaries as we will be chatting and mapping our activities for the year ahead. See you there!

Apple Day is once again being held at Bromham Mill, this years date is Sunday 18th October 2009. See – http://www.bedford.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/local_history_and_heritage/bromham_mill.aspx

Traditionally the event has been staffed by volunteers from the County Council (no more of course), however, this year they are asking for help from communities to assist at the event.

Help [...]

Thanks to all those who turned out for the bike maintenance workshops on Saturday. Stephen from Transition Cyles was brilliant giving up his morning to demonstrate and guide people through some basic bike maintenance jobs. Thanks Stephen. Another thank you goes out to Rachel and Chris from the Castle Road Cop Shop [...]

Love you bike day! Is your bike sitting in the shed feeling neglected and in need of some TLC? Not sure how to fix those little problems or get your bike into shape? Well on Saturday 11th July we have the event just for you! Transition cycles will be doing three free bike maintenance workshops. [...]

We’ve been talking about mapping these things for a while now and I thought we should get this organised so that we have a record of what could potentially be used for community use together with locations of trees  identifying unwanted fruit.

Stephen from Abundance Sheffield www.growsheffield.com who recently visited us on our food day said [...]

The Anglia in Bloom judges will be visiting Bedford in early July and our projects have been ear marked for definate visits. So we have to get moving and get them tidy and organised!

I am proposing to start a list of things that need to be done for the Eat Fish forest garden and the [...]

This article made for interesting reading - http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/Peak_time_travel

News like this does not get into the daily press but it should do.  When industries are coming together to think about something like peak oil, maybe we can reassured that the Transition Towns movement is going to be an important part of the ‘peak oil and climate [...]