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Scottish Smallholder and Grower Festival 2012

January 14, 2012 No comments

The town of Forfar, in the county of Angus, will host the first Scottish Smallholder and Grower Festival on Sunday 30th September 2012. The Forfar Market, owned by Lawrie and Symington, will provide the venue for the inaugural event, which will be opened by Tim Tyne, the well-known smallholder, writer and author of “The Sheep Book for Smallholders”.

The event is being organised by The Accidental Smallholder Ltd, whose Director, Rosemary Champion, has been a smallholder herself for over ten years. Since 2003, she and her husband, Dan, have been offering help and support to smallholders through their successful and popular website “The Accidental Smallholder” www.accidentalsmallholder.net and by running short courses for those taking their first steps in smallholding.
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Toasty Home and Tea

October 19, 2011 No comments

Sustainable Cupar is organising an event about sustainable energy at 7pm on Tuesday 25th October, in St John’s Church Hall on Bonnygate. Come along for a blether about saving your pennies on home energy. Presentations and conversations about insulation and the grants available, solar panels, and the dream green home. We will provide the tea!

For more information, contact Susan at info@sustainablecupar.co.uk.

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Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards 2011

October 9, 2011 No comments

In this years Scotsman/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, our very own Tom Morton has made the shortlist of 4 contending for the prestigious Environmental Award.
Tom has built one of Scotland’s leading environmental design practices, Cupar based, Arc.
Tom’s new buildings progress the agenda for affordable and healthy Eco-homes. His work on NHTT’s CaRB project, is used as a best practice model by the Energy Saving Trust. His major report on using plants to protect buildings is to be published by Historic Scotland this month.

Please do go to www.glenfiddich.com/spirit and vote for him. Once you vote, you’ll automatically be entered into a prize draw for a luxury weekend away.

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On yer bike and have a coffee!

October 7, 2011 No comments

Dr Bike (Daves bike Shed Aberdour) will be at the Letham Coffee Morning in the Village Hall  on

Saturday 8th October 1000-1200

doing FREE checks on all Letham bikes to:

  •  check tyres and inflate if necessary;
  • check steering and seating;
  • put bike onto the workstand;
  • check the operation of brakes and gears and make minor adjustments.

This will get your bike safe and on the road again and ready for use on the new cycle routes currently being built around the NHTT area.  For work requiring parts  special Letham prices apply…

Click here to learn more and see the flyer

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Training opportunity for young people in Howe of Fife

September 23, 2011 No comments

 

NHTT has been successful in being awarded funding – to provide training for local young people, transform local footpaths and create bike parking places.

 

For more information CLICK HERE

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HAM! BEER! CHILLIS! CHEESE! BREAD!

July 18, 2011 No comments

Fife Diet are  bringing together five local food producers and you’re invited!

It’s a sampling feast with firey Chillis from Chillicious (Ceres), delicious Bread from the Doorstep Bakery (North Howe Transition Toun), and Beer from Luckie Ales, to slake your thirst – we’ll also have some local cuts of meat and cheese.

 

 

Community Lunch 23rd of July, Collessie Hall 12:00 – 14:00come sample Bread, Chilli, Cheese, Ham, Beer.

Come along and have some (free) lunch with us and buy something delicious to take away! It will be a chance to meet other people getting involved in starting a new Fife Diet North group.

For more details phone us on 01592 871 371.

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Introduction to Permaculture Course

September 3, 2010 1 comment

What is it? A 1 day permaculture introduction course with James Chapman
Who is it for? Anyone wanting to find out a bit more about permaculture.
Where is it? At the Sutherland building, Beecraigs Country Park,
Linlithgow.
When is it? SATURDAY Oct 9th, from 10am til 4.30pm
What do I need to bring? Outdoor clothing, pen and paper, packed lunch.
How much? Please pay what you can afford, from £5 to £20. Free places are
provided if required.
How do I book? Please contact james chapman to book a place and for
payment details. james@tree-wise-men.com 07790 265883

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Still looking for a stove to borrow!

July 19, 2010 No comments

Our food smoking officiendo will be doing a food smoking workshop at our Family Food Skills Day on the 1st August @ 1pm and if it is a nice day we would like to do it outside, does anyone have an outdoor stove we could use for the workshop? A Camping stove would be ideal. We really do need one, if you can help please contact hayley.mills@phoneccop.coop or call 01337 810342

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Visit by The Climate Change Minister

July 13, 2010 No comments

On Wednesday 21st July 2010, Stewart Stevenson the Scottish MSP for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change will visit the NHTT area in relation to the receipt of our Climate Challenge Fund awards. If any NHTT members would like to meet the minister please contact Hamid van Koten as soon as possible on: h.h.vankoten@dundee.ac.uk

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The X Factor

July 8, 2010 No comments

Some may have missed the new Forum on the site.

NHTT e-Xchange

Its a place where users can exchange ideas, thoughts and perhaps most importantly food, goods and even manure.

To support this we’ve decided to have a daily email which will send subscribers a list of any new posts. No new posts- no new email.

We’ve had to find a balance between informing subscribers as soon as a fresh produce is available for sale/barter and inundating people with emails. Its a difficult call and if you think we’ve got it wrong (ie too m

any emails, please let us know through the forum’s Help and Support Section).

This is a separate mailing list to the NHTT Bulletin so if you’d like to subscribe to it please follow this link www.nhtt.org.uk/-xc

All the posts are displayed on the front page (in the sidebar) of the website and if you are familiar with the concept of RSS feeds you can subscribe to the feed url: “http://nhtt.org.uk/foodforum/feed.php”
Any questions or problems drop me an email to admin@nhtt.org.uk

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