Grow Your Own Village: Workshops Sunday 28th March

THE LAND IS YOURS

Are you ready to take radical action to change this planet?
If you are up for living free and responsibly in the urban jungle, This Blog will cover all aspects of setting up and maintaining a low-impact, sustainable community EG: spotting derelict land, building structures, compost toilets, growing food and alternative energy sources.

please email any ideas or project which you feel are relevant to this blog but most importantly If you spot some derelict land in your area take some photos of it do a bit of research (if you can) and send the info to growyourownvillage@yahoo.co.uk we will be building up a database of sites but we need your help. At Kew Bridge Eco Village we have a court case on the 7th May 2010 we are optomistic but any pieces of green disused land that you know of in London or around the country then email them in !

Location: 24 Kew Bridge Rd, Brentford.
Directions: the entrance is next to the Wagon and Horses pub. The nearest over ground train station is Kew Bridge (trains from Waterloo). Nearest tube is Gunnersbury (District Line). Buses from Hammersmith (237&267).

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Thursday, 25 March 2010

Workshops Sunday 28th March

The first of the weekly 'Grow Your Own Village' workshops will be commencing this Sunday at Kew Bridge Eco Village from 12 Noon.

The workshops that will be happening this Sunday are:

12-1PM: virtual land hunting workshop. <---- this will involve looking at databases & satellite imagery with a PC

1PM-2PM: lunch <---not a workshop, just some good tasty skipped food!

2PM onwards: land scouting workshop. <---- going out and about looking for derelict land, followed by a discussion about things to think about when identifying and selecting land for low impact communities in the urban environment.

Also this Saturday from 12 Noon, there will be the weekly Permaculture session at Kew Bridge which will involve planting vegetables, designing growing areas and much more.

Hope you can come and join us for either or even better, both of these days.

we will have videos and information on this blog about the workshops afterwoods if you are unable to make it