Collective Action - Croft Carbon College

Are you an organisation or a business that wants to take action in order to become more socially and environmentally responsible? Leith Community Crops in Pots is offering tailored support to help companies contribute back to their own communities. Together lets create a happy, health, leafy Leith! https://www.croftcarboncollege.org/collective-action/

Crofternoons begin in two weeks - booking will be available via our Croft Carbon College website in the next few days :)

Seeds of Resilience - Crops in Pots

Only a few hours left to donate to this!

Food after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future

A breath of fresh air!

East Dorset Beekeepers Association

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All the buzz from us! - https://mailchi.mp/67007fc29297/all-the-buzz-from-us

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Thanks, Crofters! We've had a scorchingly sunny Crofters' Day, and it's all looking very late-summery: Tattie howkin' and scything down the "meadow" (thistles) around our fruitful forest garden have been some of the highlights. The next one will be on the last Sunday in September - hope to see some of you there!

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In recent years, a dedicated community has transformed a barren, abandoned part of Leith Links into a blossoming, vibrant Croft and community space that grows food, hosts environmental education courses, and is a haven for the community amidst economic and ecological violence. Our aspiration is to create connections and solidarity with those most affected by climate change and use the Croft as a space to amplify their voices through stories and exhibitions. For this reason, we are raising funds to support an organic farm in Malawi and Leith Croft. We want to exchange knowledge and practice in order to build resilient people-led food systems, everywhere. Recently, Leith Croft has seen some vandalism, which makes it harder to continue our work. We want to make the Croft a radically inclusive space, and want to put resources into inviting the vandals in, to overcome differences and build community resilience. Wouldn’t it be great if we could use this as an opportunity to broaden our empathy and increase participation in the Croft and climate action more broadly? This year, we’re participating in the Big Give Christmas Challenge to help us continue our work. We’re inviting organisations and individuals to pledge funds during summer. Come Christmas, we ask members of the public to donate. Every donation will be matched and doubled by the pledgers, and Champions associated with the Big Give. You will find more information on our work in Leith, projects in Malawi, and the Big Give below. A more detailed briefing can be found here. We hope you will feel inspired to get involved by supporting our Big Give participation. To become a pledger, click on the link below! Become a pledger! https://leith-community-crops-in-pots.org/our-initiatives/seeds-of-resilience/

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Massive thanks to the Crofters who showed up (in the pouring rain!) to our July Crofters' Day. We finished making another bed in the market garden and were rewarded with warm sunshine and a flurry of painted lady butterflies!

No flights, a four-day week and living off-grid: what climate scientists do at home to save the planet

It’s not just about climate change: if you look at land use change, biodiversity loss, fertilisers in the ocean creating dead zones, the massive extinction and loss of insects due to pesticides – these problems are all driven by food. Read about some climate scientists journey to more sustainable lifestyles.

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Not how we expected to spend our Saturday - a swarm had landed on a really inaccessible wall above a very nice hotel on George street. They hung on all through the night with really bad rain. Sadly someone had tried to hose them down this morning, so when we arrived it was a heartbreaking scene of what looked like dead and dying bees. Hours were spent trying to dry them out and gently going through them with a pastry brush, separating out the living bees. We managed to entice the bees into a hive. The queen didn’t appear to be there. A ball of bees is still clinging to the wall (third picture). Fingers crossed the final bees and hopefully the queen find the hive. We think we saved over 50% of the colony. If all goes well the bees will be joining our apiary on the Community Croft to recover.