Transition Thame & District
Next events:
Saturday 11th September: Transition Thame & District has a stall at Thame food festival
Wednesday 15th September: Allotments for the busy 7.30pm, Rose and Thistle Pub, Station Road, Haddenham. It is said that you can maintain a productive allotment with 1/2 an hour a day, with your weekends off. This discussion will look at how it is possible to effectively manage your time, get the most out of your plot and provide fresh food throughout the year. With contributions from new and experienced allotment holders we will consider what the best things to grow are in terms of value/ease of growing/vulnerability to pests etc and time. We will also discuss how to manage an allotment while minimising energy input, bearing in mind peak oil (eg. artificial fertilisers are made with oil and petrol strimmers need a lot to manufacture and operate). Of interest to those who have just started an allotment and the 'old hands' too!
Ideas for further events include.... constructing compost toilets (we know a specialist!), constructing Rocket Stoves - a chap in Transition Buckingham specialises in this and Chicken Keeping - it is becoming increasingly popular! We shall be screening the film 'The End of the Line' and 'The Tipping Point' this autumn.
About Transition Thame and District
We are an umbrella group supporting transition groups in Haddenham, Thame, Long Crendon, Chinnor, Princes Riborough, Cuddington, Chearsley etc. Individually these communities would struggle to get active groups going it alone, but as part of the TTD group we all support each other. As the area straddles the Bucks/Oxon border we often use the local village name when talking to organisations like councils - they get turned off if somewhere 'over the border' is mentioned!
We are still in awareness raising mode and engaged in some practical activities. With the much valued support of FOE Chinnor & Thame we carried out home energy efficiency surveys with a thermal imaging camera on loan from S. Oxfordshire DC and ran exhibitions locally of the results. One of our members has a digital projector and we have screened extracts of the Powerdown Show and Money as Debt, Age of Stupid & In Transition 1.0. Recent meetings have included a presentation about bee keeping that packed out the large back room at the Rose and Thistle.
To Contact us:
David Lyons
Transition Thame & District
tel: 01844 296174 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01844 296174 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01844 296174 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
mob: 07799 337024
email: dakeyd10 (at) gmail (dot) com
If you live locally or may be visiting, please get in touch.
All these activities need your help! If there are any computer whiz kids in the area that could help us set up a proper web site, your skills could be put to very good use!
Meetings and groups
Having run a number of general meetings where detailed discussion of planning and business was offputting to people who came along for the first time, we are now running informative meetings with film viewings and discussions and keeping the business side to a steering group meeting.
We have regular steering group meetings to which everyone is welcome with one proviso: you must be willing to leave with meeting with one or more actions - not just having raised questions and made suggestions. Please get in touch for details of our next meeting.
We have a fledgling transport group which is looking at improving cycle transport in the area and supporting a campaign to put in a cycle route between Haddenham and Thame, avoiding the busy main road.
We have a fledgling Local Food group which links with TT High Wycombe's Food on our Doorstep group and has had a presentation from Organic Wheat Grower and founder of the Oxford Bread Group, John Letts.
We have a Permaculture Group which we will encourage anyone and everyone to attend its meetings. Transition is founded on permaculture principles and it is hoped that by helping people put these into practice in their homes and gardens, local people will engage with the wider transition initiative in making our community more resilient to Peak Oil and Climate Change.
