Blasda! local food feast

ARCHIVE: September 2012

Join Greener Kirkcaldy and the Fife Diet to celebrate our local food and harvest on Sunday 9 September

10.30 -11.30: Talks at Dysart Community Hall (on the Fife Diet, Fife Council’s EATS project,  and Ravenscraig Walled Garden)
12-1 pm: Lunch Dysart Community Hall
1 pm: Procession to the Ravenscraig Walled Garden for Doors Open Day

Loads to see and do: Guided tours, story telling, seed sowing workshops for adults and kids and the Fife Diet’s Seed truck and smoothie bike.

Blasda is gaelic for tasty, delicious, appetising, sweet. From blas (“taste, flavour”). As in “That vindaloo’s blasda!”

http://www.blasda.org.uk

Jam Making Workshop

ARCHIVE: September 2012

On Thursday 13th September at Templehall Community Centre 6.30pm – 9pm we’ll be running a jam making workshop.  Come along if you’ve never made jam before, come along if you’re an expert – we’re happy to be taught a thing or two!  Depending on how the foraging goes on Saturday 8th we’ll be using fruit gathered from Dunnikier Park to make the jams, but feel free to bring any fruit from your gardens to add to the mix.  Also bring along clean jars with lids to take you jam away with you.  It’s all completely FREE!

Please email russell@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk to register your interest.

Introduction to composting workshop

ARCHIVE: September 2012

On Tuesday 18th September at Ravenscraig Walled Garden 10.30am – noon – come along and learn about composting – master composter Kirsty Martin of Zero Waste Fife will carry out the workshop, answer questions and provide help on how to compost successfully at home or on your allotment.

The workshop is free and there’s no need to book – just turn up on the day. The entrance to the Walled Garden is a blue gate near the junction of Dysart Road and West Quality Street. If you can’t find us, call 07583 275241 for directions.

Herb spiral workshop

ARCHIVE: September 2012

Help us build a Herb Spiral at the Greener Kirkcaldy training allotment – Saturday 29th Sept at Ravenscraig Walled Garden 10am – 4pm

Permaculture is a system of design that works with natural systems to create greater sustainability. This workshop will explore how permaculture design principles can be applied to gardening, the creation of micro-climates, and uses for the herbs grown in the spiral. It will be very hands-on – together we will build a herb spiral – a very special kind of raised bed – for our training allotment.

The workshop is free but places are limited. To register your place please email info[@]www.greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.

We’re currently developing our training allotment to demonstrate different approaches to organic growing and to host training workshops and courses for individuals and community groups.

The photos below show a herb spiral built by a group of volunteers in Glasgow.