Dark Kitchen: Making Friends with Microbes
By Mark Watson, Dark Mountain Project
For thousands of years the arts of fermentation have transformed and preserved raw food in cultures across the world. Yet even though some of our strongest and most loved flavours – coffee, chocolate, cheese, salami, olives, as well as soy, miso and tempeh, wine and beer – are still alchemised via the life-death-life process of bacteria and yeasts, live, fizzing vegetables can be a challenge.
Launching the Grassroots Directory!
By Charlotte Du Cann, Mark Watson, The Grassroots Directory blog
The Grassroots Directory is a new source book that aims to showcase the most innovative, practical and exciting community-led projects in the UK.
Making Space for Flowers
By Mark Watson, Transition Culture
...making space for nature goes beyond the world of nature reserves, wildlife documentaries or even pilgrimages into the wilderness.
The NR35 Dead-Hedgers Society
By Mark Watson, Transition Norwich Blog
It just so happened that the five of us who turned up at Richard’s on Wednesday morning in Bungay to learn how to do dead-hedging with Paul were all over 50, and so the ad hoc name we came up with for that morning’s grouping was the NR35 Dead-Hedgers Society - the Over 50s Contingent!
Let’s Keep the Seeds Real… and introducing Huauzontle
By Mark Watson, Transition Norwich Blog
Growing plants, particularly for food, and particularly in community, is a big part of the Transition experience and ethos. Many people in transition are active permaculturists. At the very least, most of us want to eat plants grown organically from good seed.
Well-being and the Community – a local perspective
By Mark Watson, Transition Network
What makes up community well-being in a time of financial constraints and climate uncertainty? This was the question twenty five people turned up to explore at Sustainable Bungay's first Green Drinks of the new year at the Green Dragon in January.
Transition Free Press Issue #1 is here!
By Charlotte Du Cann, Mark Watson, Transition Free Press
We are published today! 10,000 copies of our first Spring issue are now being distributed throughout the UK. Do check out your local hub and spread the word. It might just be the best £1 you’ve spent in a long while. If you or your intiative are not near a distributor, you can check out our on-line version...
Some Winter Dispatches from East Anglia in Transition
By Mark Watson, Transition Norwich Blog
It’s early January and I’m sitting in the Green Dragon pub at Sustainable Bungay’s first event of the year, a Green Drinks session on the theme of Well-Being and the Community. The room is packed, the discussion is lively, and a new Arts, Culture and Well-Being group is formed with monthly events already being planned and put into diaries. Everything from mapping the areas in town where people experience well-being (or not), to teaching each other skills in communications, living together, growing food, meditation and even body drumming (I’m going to have a go at that one).