It is now more than 2 years that our transition group has been running in the village and in that time we have had plenty of fun and organised a few things that may have slightly altered some people’s actions or beliefs – maybe, just a little. Last week was the first ‘Forest Row local food week’ – as ever with transition events it seems slightly mad and I wonder what it is all about, but it is great fun – as I travel between taking my chickens down to the Forresters Green (not yet a football pitch!) for a ‘chicken chat/workshop’, sowing biodynamic wheat seeds with Peter Brinch at Plawhatch, and encouraging local foodie producers and caterers to network at the business breakfast we held. All of it I will happily do again next year and maybe then we will have 30 people for the chicken chat, and a couple of heavy horses to help till the soil at Plawhatch….
For information about Transition forest row go to www.transitionforestrow.org, where you can also find a downloadable copy of the incredible ‘Forest Row in transition….’ document
The next focus will be on the ‘low carbon community challenge’ grant funding I expect – here’s hoping there are some more willing people to get going with that one.
