Growing Seminar 28th April, Spring Clean

April - Growing Seminar, Spring Clean & Newsletter 

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Dear Mr. Archive,
Happy Easter. Please find following a preliminary notice of a Growing Seminar which will take place on 28th April. We are appealing for articles on Water and Food for our Spring Newsletter. Are you involved with a Spring Clean event - would you like CEF to promote this? Finally dates for Green Drinks April & May 2012.

Growing Seminar/ Showcase Event Saturday 28^th April 2012
CEF is hosting this event to inform people of the various opportunities to get involved with growing food and to highlight the many wonderful projects that are already building resilience in communities.
 
We are hoping to procure a venue in proximity to the Churchfield allotments. It will be a morning event from 10am -1pm. The event will include speakers and workshops on the following:

• Community Gardens
• Allotments
• Grow It Yourself Groups (GIY)
• Fruit & Orchards
• Food Security

We may also have a speaker on bee-keeping and community shared agriculture. The speakers and facilitators for each growing topic will be drawn from different projects throughout the city & county.  Another important aspect is to showcase what existing projects are doing, therefore, we invite groups to bring photos and any other promotional materials along to display on the day. Please let me know if you are interested in attending/ participating. Further details will be circulated shortly.
 
 
Spring Newsletter 2012
 
The format of our Newsletter in recent years has been to adopt a thematic title, borrowing from this year’s World Water Day theme the Spring Newsletter will focus loosely on Water and Food.  We welcome contributions from members and the public. If you wish to contribute please submit an article of approximately 300 words. You can also send any associated images or links and any upcoming related events. Please note that articles may have to be edited before inclusion. Please forward by Friday 20^th April.
 
National Spring Clean 2012
 
April is National Spring Clean month and offers an opportunity to “Clean Up Cork”. This is an An Taisce sponsored initiative which every year results in local people through voluntary effort cleaning up their communities, for more information check out the website link here.
 
CEF is helping to mark National Spring Clean with a workshop on Saturday 14^th April entitled “Spring Flowers from Spring Clean”  upcycling old rubbish to make something beautiful by creating spring flowers.  The workshop will create large flowers to be a display installation piece at Dunmanway Family Resource Centre to raise awareness around waste and the importance of protecting nature.

Please let us know if you are having a Spring Clean Event in your area which we can promote.
 
Green Drinks
April: Tuesday 10th at The Arch Bar, Dunmanway @ 8pm includes a presentation on "Developing a New Currency"

May: Thursday 10th at the LV Bar, McCurtain Street @ 6.30pm. Topic TBC

Green drinks is a get together to allow people with an interest in sustainability and the environment to chat in an informal way. All welcome.


Best regards,

Bernie Connolly
Development Coordinator

Email: bernadette@cef.ie
Mobile: 086 8216726
 

CEF Management Committee 2011/ 2012 Michael Hobbs(Chair) Kieran McDonogh (Vice chair) Helen Barrett (Treasurer) Anna Aherne (Hon Sec) Conor McManus Darren McAdam-O'Connell Jennifer Franklin Mary Barrett Ted O'Leary Kieran Higgins Paul Doherty Bernadette Connolly (Development Coordinator)

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