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Community Garden Connaught Girls School visit
Transition Leytonstone's Community Garden hosted classes from a local girl's secondary school to help them learn about nature and...

Transition Leytonstone
Jul 231 min read
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A Rewilding Manual for Schools - a book review by Suzanne Veitch
Lesley Malpas is the Founder and CEO of Operation Future Hope, a programme for schools designed to educate young people about the state...
Ros Bedlow
Feb 213 min read
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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein (2013)
Sometimes I come across a book that confirms and clarifies a worldview I had held for some time but never quite managed to articulate....
Ros Bedlow
Jan 74 min read
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Regenesis, which is lucid, genuinely exciting, insightful and scary, but simultaneously gives us hope...

Transition Leytonstone
Nov 28, 20232 min read
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Walking and writing with Meryl Pugh
The workshop on 11th June, attended by 15 adults and one child, was both relaxing and inspiring. After a leisurely walk in the heat, we...

Transition Leytonstone
Jul 3, 20232 min read
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Regenesis - a book review by Tricia Handley
Feeding the world without devouring our planet is the subtitle of this absolute gem. This was a friend’s choice for our book group of six...

Transition Leytonstone
May 27, 20232 min read
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Climate Action Day
This year Climate Action Day took place on 6th November and was organised by XR Waltham Forest and kindly hosted by St John's Church...

Transition Leytonstone
Nov 12, 20212 min read
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A Hub of Resilience in Leytonstone
Back in February 2020 it was impossible to imagine what the year ahead had in store for us. I was already a couple of months into...
Amy Scaife
Feb 21, 20214 min read
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People & Permaculture - a book review
Transition Leytonstone holds a fantastic collection of books on topics from ecology to gardening, renewable energy to social justice....
Owner1
Feb 6, 20214 min read
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Love local, shop local: part 1
I want to share a couple of statistics. One: every £10 spent at a locally owned shop generates £25 for that area; the same spent in a...
Rebecca Armstrong
Dec 5, 20204 min read
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The Community Fridge latest news
The Community Fridge continues to go from strength to strength - securing grant funding and attracting donations of food from local growers.
Diana Korchien
Sep 25, 20201 min read
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An introduction – why I got involved with Transition Leytonstone
The latest member of Transition Leytonstone takes a moment to introduce herself and talk about what she hopes to do with the organisation.
Rebecca Armstrong
Sep 15, 20202 min read
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Nature privilege - exploring the journey from knowing to acting
Sandra reflects on how a lack of opportunity to learn about and spend time in Nature might lead to a lack of engagement with 'green' issues.
Owner1
Jul 27, 20203 min read
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Coronavirus, community resilience and the future
Initial thoughts on what the current crisis might mean for Transition towns and for local communities.
Owner1
May 9, 20202 min read
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A new garden for the Methodist Church
Leytonstone Methodist Church asked Transition Leytonstone to help them design and create a new garden at the front of the church.
Owner1
Jan 10, 20201 min read
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Why we all need more mushrooms in our lives
Do you grow your own food? How about mushrooms? - highly nutritious but also crucial to the health of soils and ecosystems.
Owner1
Sep 1, 20193 min read
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Museum of London – Phyto-Sensor: an air quality garden workshop and walk
An account of a recent workshop at the Museum of London on air quality and plants which help clean our air of pollutants. On 17th March I...
Owner1
May 1, 20183 min read
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Education, education, education
Vertical Veg Workshop The next event in our Community Garden will be a suitably seasonal affair, with free soup, artisan bread, cake, and...
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Nov 27, 20142 min read
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WORKSHOP: To make a Solar Dryer
The newest and most energy-hungry methods of food preservation are well known to all: refrigeration and freezing – and of course,...
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Jul 30, 20141 min read
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Cultivate 2014 - the Power of Community
SHARING FOOD, SEED AND SPACE Waltham Forest’s very first urban food growing festival, will be kicking off on Friday March 21 with Grow...
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Mar 19, 20142 min read
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