Out for a walk in New Mills today, spotted this lichen growing on the Millenium Walkway.
Also lovely to chat to one of the volunteers checking on Torrs Hydro, a community owned hydro-electric plant that was generating 50kW while we were there. https://torrshydro.org/
I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. I was quite surprised to see fungi appearing all throughout the spring and summer as I always associate fungi with autumn. This is the first video of fungi I have managed to capture .... so far!
The #market is owned by TteS but is open to everyone. The store displays signs in #Secwepemctsín (#SecwépemcLanguage) including a welcoming of Weyt-kp above the front door.
The #NativeLanguage also labels each department of the store such as q̓wlem (bakery) & ts̓i7 ell swewll (meat and fish).
I want to share some of my blogs with you about the Maryburgh Community Woodland. I thought a good place to start would be to tell you a bit about how the community bought the local woodland. Then over the next few days I'll be looking at some of the plants and fungi that I've found in the woodland.
There hasn’t been any grocers in this town of 28,000 people for 15 years. Now a group of locals wants to change that by opening a community-owned greengrocers.
Working with local growers and food producers, it will create a permanent outlet where people can buy local food. Veg will be loose and they’ll stock local and heritage varieties.
Chris Dobbs is one of the suppliers they've lined up: “Over the years we’ve lost the connection between our local farms and our local households, but Carrick Greengrocers is going to tie those back together and get fresh food from farms into people’s homes. Being so close, I can get vegetables off the farm and into the grocers in 10 minutes.”
The project is giving people a chance to become co-owners and raising funds to open the business by June with community shares. If successful, it would be the first community-owned business in Carrickfergus, and the first community-owned greengrocers in Northern Ireland.