Good Food Year No comments yet

Trinity Centre, Haddington

FREE entry, plus tea and homemade biscuits

Number two in our CCF series of carbon footprint busting events.  Food can involve a lot of airmiles and road miles, not to mention pesticides and packaging.  What could be greener and more local than growing your own veg and carrying it a few yards to your table?  Once you’ve gone to all that effort you don’t want to waste any either, so come along and get all your questions answered.

Kitchen Canny

Kitchen Canny is a fabulous project from Changeworks aiming to get us all throwing away less of that hard grown/transported/cooked food.  Come along to find out more and pick up your FREE Kitchen Canny Kit.

Master Composters

Is your compost heap just a mass of weeds or a horrible slimey mess, then you need some a advice on how to improve your composting from trained Master Composters!

Seed Swap

Who would not want FREE seeds.  Bring along any left over seeds from last year, or ones you have saved yourself and swap them for something new and maybe exciting.

Advice on growing your own vegetables

It can be daunting starting your first vegetable plot.  Where should you put it?  What to start growing?  When to start planting?  Those packets always say February/early March, maybe ok for Cornwall, but here it is still snowing!  Get some advice from experienced, LOCAL vegetable growers, who can tell you where, what and when is best for Haddington veg.

Haddington Allottments

Have you already started your veg plot, and outgrown it?  Or maybe you only have a window sill?  We want to know if there is a demand for allottments in Haddington, and if there is let the council know about it.  Come and add your name to the list.

Fruit Mapping

We all know of an apple tree bursting with fruit, which is left to rot.  Come and help us put them all on the map.  Once we have located them, we hope to harvest that unwanted fruit and make the most of it.  So we also need people to pick it, turn it into jam/pies or pickles and then distribute it.  If you are an ace apple pie baker or bramble picker we need you!

Kids Stuff

Foodie fun and games for the kids, maybe even a little planting?

Kitchen Canny No comments yet

Kitchen Canny is a great new project from Changeworks, all about how households can reduce their food waste.  The Action Kit takes you through 4 weeks, looking at how much you throw away now, working out ways to reduce it, then measuring what you’ve achieved. You even get a lovely tea towel for sending back your results!!

To take part, all you have to do is to pick up a pack from Haddington Library!

Kitchen Canny will also be at the Good Food Year event on the 13th March.

To find out more

http://www.changeworks.org.uk/kitchencanny/

Fairtrade Fortnight No comments yet

©Marcus Lyon

Fairtrade Fortnight is all about swapping the things you normally buy for fairtrade versions.  The focus this year is tea.  Look out for the fairtrade logo on fruit, tea, coffe, chocolate……all sorts!  They are everywhere, even Tesco’s!  The Coop is good for lots of things even fairtrade wine.  Also, Oxfam, Whole Earth……..any other suggestions?

To find out more and register your swaps go to

www.fairtrade.org.uk

Earth Hour Supper 2 comments

Come and celebrate Earth Hour with us at Peter Potter’s Cafe.  Lovely food, candle light, lovely music and good company.  While (hopefully) all the lights in Haddington go out for earth hour, enjoy a candlelit supper made by the new cook at Peter Potter.  Cost is £12.50 per person BYOB (£2 corkage).  Tickets available from Peter Potter gallery www.peterpottergallery.org.  BOOK NOW!