NHTT will be having a Christmas Celebration to encourage people to live more lightly on the planet this festive period and think about what we can do to reduce our carbon footprints for 2010. It will also be a chance to celebrate the successes and work of 2009. An informal festive event planning meeting will be held on Friday 27th November @ 7.30pm @ Broom Cottage, Monimail. We need volunteers to help with coordinating different bits of the day such as the festive supper, to help with set up, clear up, musical people, someone to make mulled wine, festive cake makers, someone to coordinate the eco pass the parcel & other games and just general helpers. If you are willing to help out please make contact with Hayley Mills.

Draft programme below to give you an idea of what it will be like!

4pm                 People arrive – get some mulled wine!
4.15 – 4.30pm  Heart & Soul Welcome
4.30 – 4.50pm  Sing some festive tunes, lots of relaxed musical fun!
4.50 – 5.00pm  Catch breath & have another mulled wine
5.00 – 5.40pm   Workshops – for kids & adults
5.40 – 6.40pm   Everyone Bring a Dish Festive Supper
6.40 – 7.00pm   Pass the eco parcel/musical chairs & statues for all!
7.00 – 8.00pm   Drink Up & Tidy Up!

There will also be a festive bartering/for sale table. The Travelling Transition Tavern & NHTT Cafe will be there.

Any further queries to Hayley

The North Howe Transition Toun Food Group and Monimail Tower Project have been working in partnership to create a small scale Transition re-skilling library set in the ancient and unique Monimail Tower. Hayley Mills, who is an active member of the Transition Food Group, said “the idea of a re-skilling library is to provide practical information that allows people to develop the skills that will be needed for a more localised and sustainable way of living.”

The opening of the library will take place on Sunday 22 November 12-2pm at Monimail Tower, Monimail, KY15 7RJ. This will be a free event. There will a cutting of an eco ribbon, some local eco poets, an ‘open eco mic’ and a delicious local meat and vegetarian BBQ.

‘Open Eco Mic’ – this will be an opportunity for people to contribute an eco poem or a short eco reading that they have written or is particularly meaningful to them. If people aren’t brave enough to read it out, they can post it up on a board for others to read on the day!

To give you an idea of the range of books The Green Library will have, there are the following subjects:

Local Food, Growing, Small Holding, Fish, Permaculture, Preserving, Eco Building and Renovation, Home Brewing, Energy Descend, Transport, Heart & Soul, Aquaculture, Woodland, Transition, Peak Oil, Local Livelihoods and Economics, Sustainability, Crafts, Nature, Baking, Cooking & a Children’s section. Relevant topical donations to the library are most welcome – if you are keen to donate books please contact Hayley The full catalogue will be available on line soon.

“This library promises to be an important resource for developing the skills we need in our local communities with a view to climate change and oil depletion” said Hamid van Koten, who is also a member of the North Howe Transition Toun.

Membership is free for members of MTP & NHTT, £5 yearly for people within the NHTT area who are not members & £10 yearly for those out with. People can join on the day and take away books by filling in a membership form. For people that can’t make it on the day further details will be available at on our website.

The NHTT Local Food Group have organised a Local Food Festival which will take place in Letham Park on Saturday 19 September from 12.30 to 5.30pm.

Stall holders and participants will include Bellfield and Jamesfield Organics, Your Piece Baking Company, Pillars of Hercules, Monimail Church Home baking, The Secret Garden Outdoor Nursery, Letham Primary School, Elmwood College, Fife Ranger Service, The Transition Tavern, Cupar Farm Shop and much more.

There will be talks and workshops including Whitemore Organics, The Fife Diet and a cooking demonstration from Elmwood College.

For the children there will be face painting and the critically acclaimed Puppet Show ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’.

The Transition Tavern will be in attendance with their usual array of local ales and wines and we will be entertained by acoustic trio Honky Tonkin and Drumming workshops throughout the afternoon.

Programme of Events: To follow

For your convenience and so that you can leave your cars at home there will be cycle parking and we are running a shuttle bus to and from villages within the NHTT Area.

Bus Timetable:

Run 1

Monimail Green 12.00

Collessie Park 12.05

Giffordtown Bus Stop 12.15

Charlottetown Giff Hall 12.20

Bow of Fife 12.30

Letham Park 12.35

Run 2

Monimail Green 12.45

Collessie Park 12.50

Giffordtown Bus Stop 13.00

Charlottetown Giff Hall 13.05

Bow of Fife 13.15

Letham Park 13.20

14.15 Food Foray

15.45 Food Foray

16.30 start runs home

If you would like any more information about the day please get in touch with Louise at “northhowetransitiontoun@googlemail.com” or call 07879996845

Collessie Hall

Saturday, 13 June 3.30pm

FREE EVENT!

You are invited to attend this exciting event on Sat 13 June,
3.30pm onwards. This is an opportunity to learn more about
the Climate Challenge Fund Award and how this will benefit
our North Howe communities and find out what the projects
are and how we might take these forward.
The event is free and open to all residents from the NHTT
area which covers the Community Council Areas of Giffordtown,
Monimail and Collessie. We encourage you to come along.

Provisional Programme for the Day
• 3.30pm onwards Information. display boards, networking – with teas and cake. Meet the
People in the Local Food, Energy, Transport, Events and Coordination Action
Groups. Find out about the projects and how to get involved.

• 5.pm AGM What is a Community Interest Company and why would we want one?
NHTT is re-constituting as a CIC and is recruiting directors for the company
from the active membership.

• 5.30pm Buffet supper. An array of locally made and grown foods will be supplied by
the Local Food Action Group and a free drink from the Transition Tavern.
Sample McLuckie Ales from Dunshalt and local Wines.

• 6.30pm Short presentation on the 12 steps of Transition. Where have we got to?

• 7.00pm Music and Social

Local Food Event Planned for Saturday 5th September 2009, 12-4pm. For more information click here. For minutes of the Transition Toun Food group, click here