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 [...]
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There have been pizza nights, coffee mornings, a Halloween Party and even some work with students from St Andrews University. For the passed few months The Doostep Bakers have been busy getting kitchen in Collessie Hall all set up for Fridays bakes and things have been running now for a few weeks. Feedback from last [...]
Tom recently attended he Scottish Green Awards in Glasgow where he was delighted and slightly surprised to recieve the Scottish Green award for Best Community Initiative on behalf of the NHTT, ‘we were delighted to be chosen as finalists and are staggered to have won the award. There are a lot of community groups doing [...]
If you’ve got an excess of apples this year don’t forget about the NHTT Apple Press which is available to hire as usual. Check out the booking calendar for availability. This year the cost will be £5 per day for those in area and members and £10 per day for all others. Bookings have already [...]
On Sunday 18th September 2-4 p.m. at Giffordtown Village Hall, the hall committee are running a gardeners’ swap shop. Just bring along any garden surplus; veg, fruit. herbs,flowers and negotiate a deal for whatever you can negotiate.
Enquiries have already started to come in for hiring the community apple press. The press has proved popular over the passed couple of years for both community events and home use. This year there will be some changes as we are now no longer funded we need to make sure that we are in a [...]
On Friday 9th September The Doorstep Bakery gang will be turning their hands to pizza making at a fundraising evening in Collessie Hall. Bookings are essential with things kicking off from 6.30pm onwards. We will be offering garlic bread, pizza and salad for £10 or £25 for a family ticket which will give you garlic [...]
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 [...]
The bakers have been busy turning their hands to decorating,cleaning and removals. In the passed month we have cleaned and decorated the kitchen in Collessie Hall which is starting to look more like bakery especially as we have now moved in our worktable, oven and prover. We are waiting for a date for installation of [...]
**1 week short PDC course at Monimail Tower – Aug 14 to 19th 2011** Price £200 – £360 + camping @ £5 per night. Subsidised places available on request. This is a shorter version of the 2 week design course and is intended for anyone wanting to start using permaculture in your home or garden [...]
