Surplus produce stall
Our weekly stall for people wishing to sell surplus garden produce, including fresh fruit, vegetables, plants, cut flowers, preserves, free-range eggs, cakes and other home produce started up on 22 May and will continue through the summer.
When? Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. (Bring items to sell between 9.30 and 10.00 am.)
Where? The shop (garage forecourt) on London Road.
More information? On our food page,
or contact Sarah Deco, 
or
01235 851441.
Apple Day – 16 October 2010
Apple Day is an annual celebration of apple, orchards and local distinctiveness, initiated by Common Ground in 1990. It has since been celebrated each year by people organising hundreds of local events. We will be having a Blewbury-wide celebration of Apple Day – watch this page for details!
Sustainable Blewbury stall at Brass Band Day, 11 July 2010
The Blewbury and District Brass Band celebrated its 100th anniversary with an open-air party in the Playclose. Sustainable Blewbury had a stand – we talked to a lot of people about the project's aims and activities, as well as selling some local produce.
Green Energy Initiative – information meeting on solar panels, 5 July 2010
The Blewbury Energy Initiative is coordinating a group order from Blewbury and Upton to obtain a discount on solar photovoltaic panels. Under the new feed-in tariff these have become an good investment, as well as contributing to a low-carbon future. Indications from local installation companies and the planning authorities look hopeful. A well-attended information meeting about solar panels and the possible arrangements was held on 5 July.
A series of 3 films
- The Power of Community – how Cuba survived peak oil: 22 January 2010
- Home – a film by Yann
Arthus Bertrand:
19 February 2010
- In Transition 1.0 – what communities elsewhere are doing:
5 March 2010
Food and farming in and around Blewbury – a discussion evening, 13 November 2009
The discussion was chaired by agronomist Andrew Chell, with a showing of the recent BBC2 film "A Farm for the Future". The aim was to learn about the huge changes and challenges in today's farming, including higher oil prices and climate change.
Sustainable Blewbury – exhibition and demonstrations, 27 June 2009
In recent years the Blewbury Village Society Environment Group has worked closely with other organisations on issues concerning the environment. For this Blewbury Festival event, in the newly constructed barn at The Manor, the Environment Group organised exhibitions, demonstrations of, and detailed information about:
- Energy saving, solar PV, solar thermal, ground source heat pumps, etc.
- Reducing and recycling waste, including advice on composting
- Fairtrade food, saving resources and much more on sustainable living initiatives
The exhibition also highlighted the group's activities past and present, with a display of records and photographs of our own natural environment, and presentations on energy saving and microgeneration.
News from a warming world – a talk by Mark Lynas, 22 June 2009
This talk discussed what Blewbury and its global neighbours might look like in a warmer world, and how we all need to adapt our lifestyles. What can we do now to prevent the worst effects of climage change?
Mark Lynas, who lives in Oxfordshire, is a journalist, author and environmental activist (www.marklynas.org). His book Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet won the prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2008.