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Food Group - News & updates

Here's a list of all the new and updated content from this group and its projects. For more specific information please use the site search feature.

Medicinal Herbs and Sustainable Nutrition - Two Ways to Health and Wellbeing

Date and time: 
18 Nov 2008 - 8:00pm - 18 Nov 2008 - 9:45pm
Organizer: 
Neil Chadborn
Venue: 
Methodist Church
Price: 
£4, £3 concessions, T3 (3Totnes £)
Brief description (3 lines max): 
Connections between food and health will be investigated by two speakers: Simon Mills and Isla Burgess
'Using Common Plants as Home Remedies.' Simon Mills, Programme Coordinator of Schumacher College's new certificate in Sustainable Health and founder of Sustaincare network
Superfoods and Superweeds! 'Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food' (Hippocrates 400 BC).  Isla Burgess MNZAMH(Medical Herbalist)

Food Group minutes

TTT Food Group Meeting - Minutes
Monday 2nd November 2008

Update on current projects

Seed Swap
Autumn Glorius Glut Gig was held in a cottage garden in Bridgetown, on a beautiful sunny day in October.  Some lovely glut swaps took place with veg, cakes etc, and workshops were held on seed saving and a gardener’s question time. 

The Seedy Sisters are already planning the next Seed Swap, for 21st February, to be held in Birdwood House. 

Food Group Meeting

Date and time: 
3 Nov 2008 - 7:00pm - 3 Nov 2008 - 9:00pm
Organizer: 
Noni
Venue: 
TTT Offices
Price: 
free
Facilitator: 
T and Noni
Brief description (3 lines max): 
Regular meeting of the food group to co-ordinate plans and future projects. More information about the specific topics to be covered in this meeting will be posted later. see the agenda here.  See proposed aims and objectives for discussion here, and some background info here. To read the notes of the meeting, click here

Food and Health Open Space Day

Date and time: 
22 Nov 2008 - 11:00am - 22 Nov 2008 - 3:00pm
Organizer: 
Noni, T, Janet, Neil
Venue: 
Totnes Civic Hall
Price: 
donation to cover cost of room
Brief description (3 lines max): 

All welcome.
Join us to create a resilient future in food & health for Totnes. For families who want to be involved in this day click here for more information

It has now been over 2 years since TTT was launched, and one of its
first major events back in Autumn 2006 was a Food Open Space Day.  As
some of you will remember, that event was key in getting the community
involved, to identify the issues around food that Totnesians wanted to
address.  The discussions, ideas and involvement on that day have
formed the basis for many of the projects that have taken place since
then.
TTT are therefore excited to announce their next Open  Space Day will

Food Guide Group Meeting

Date and time: 
19 Nov 2008 - 6:30pm - 19 Nov 2008 - 8:30pm
Organizer: 
Noni
Venue: 
Holly's House
Price: 
free
Facilitator: 
Noni
Brief description (3 lines max): 
We will be meeting to discuss plans for using the guide to promote the use of local producers by local businesses as well as assessing sales of the Guide through the shops and other outlets so far. Click here for more information about the Guide.