A new leaf..

A leafier Lewes with more friuit to enjoy.

Mark Ridgewell of Octoberfeast has asked me to pass on details of this Friends of Lewes and Octoberfeast project hoping to raise South Downs National Park funding for the creation of an urban arboretum:
To map the town’s apple and other fruit trees, to discover where the ancient Sussex species exist, which have disappeared and which could be reintroduced
To discover where apple and other fruit go to waste so that, with the permission of owners, rather than rot, this fruit will be harvested by individual volunteers, schools, community and youth groups and the fruit or juice, distributed around the town.

This urban arboretum project aims to generate a sustainable and growing resource for leisure, education and tourism. As many as another 120 species will almost double the diversity of our town’s tree-scape and provide increased natural beauty and shade, cleaner air and reduced pollution. To increase our town’s appeal to tourists and National Park visitors, the intention will be to provide maps for those wanting to find the trees, understand where the trees come from and when they first arrived.

Support can be offered and suggestions for new tree plantings can be made at
www.friends-of-lewes.org.uk/tree-surveys

Hoping that this project will be asuccessful as Incredible Edible of Todmorden...
http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/

Celebration of unwanted things....

“Spring into Reuse!” A new Freegle campaign is celebrating reusing... by getting the whole nation to do a mass spring clean! A great way of finding stuff you really need from local people who are looking for new homes for stuff that they no longer have a use for...
www.ilovefreegle.org