Transition Kentish Town
Tom Allen
Cleavers Pesto
Who doesn’t love a good pesto? Cleavers (Galium aparine) – also known as goose grass – are showing their beautiful bodies and are ready for the picking. Spring is the time for rejuvenation and detoxification. Cleavers comes out right in time to help that immune system fight off any yucky allergens floating around. And what [...]
Nifty Nettles
The nettle season is just beginning! Nettles have a bad reputation. They sting and they’re invasive – so what good could they possibly do? Quite a lot actually. You can eat young, fresh nettle tips, they’re a magnet for beneficial wildlife, they make great plant food, and they’re just the thing for kicking your compost [...]
The Ecobeat is coming!
The first ever Camden newspaper written by KIDS! First issue will be published in January/February 2013. We are looking for editors and contributors for the topics of energy, food growing, transport, water saving ideas, fashion, wildlife, local food, recipes, What’s eco hot in Camden, upcycling, schools stuff…. We are also looking for eco cartoons and [...]
Support our veg box scheme
We’re launching a new and exciting food focused co-operative in Kentish Town. Vegbox is a community-led organic vegetable box scheme with a weekly selection of fresh seasonal produce, sourced as locally as possible. You pick up your weekly veg every Wednesday from one of several pick up points round Kentish Town: The Thanet community centre [...]
Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum consultation
Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum have formally applied to Camden Council for designation as a neighbourhood forum. A consultation has been launched and comments on the application have to be made by 20th December. Camden Council have said that it is important that as many people as possible support the application by responding positively. You can [...]
Inaugural Bike Workshop Session
Our new Bike Workshop, a collaboration between Camden Cycling Campaign and Transition Kentish Town, had its inaugural event under the canopy outside Kentish Town Station on the evening of the longest day of the year. The mechanics were Sam Parkes from Lunar Cycles, Ruth Chiat, Stephen Taylor and George Coulouris. They helped 18 owners with [...]
Elderflower Walk and Picnic
Yesterday was the longest day of the year. To celebrate, some members of the Food Group walked up through Kentish Town – saluting the elder trees along the way – to Hampstead Heath, where several neighbouring Transition Initiatives held a celebratory picnic on top of Parliament Hill. We drank homemade elderflower fizz, sang songs and [...]
George Marshall at The Abbey
We gathered in the cosy back room in The Abbey Tavern last night for a talk from George Marshall, founder of Climate Outreach Information Network. He explored what life will be like if we reduce our carbon emissions by 80 per cent or more. Though it can seem a huge and daunting task, and in [...]
North London Festival of Transition
We’ve been quiet for a bit but we’re back for an exciting June! On 20th June, the longest day of the year, governments will meet in Rio for the 2012 Earth Summit to discuss the transition to a sustainable economy. Here in North London we’ve teamed up with neighbouring Transition Initiatives for a Festival of [...]
Carbon Nation film showing
It was a full house last night with standing room only for a showing of the film Carbon Nation, brought to the Lord Palmerston pub by the Transition groups of Kentish Town, Dartmouth Park and Tufnell Park.
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