Sens - Sustainability & Energy Network in Staveley











Big Onion

 

A community volunteer-led organisation, with a mission to grow more food locally and share relevant knowledge and skills.

 Winter Big Onion Events .

'Get Growing' Event
Sunday 19th February 2012
2-4pm at the Pavilion in Staveley (opposite the playground)
This event will feature 3 local speakers and is a chance to share and learn about what types and varieties of vegetables and fruit people find grow well in Staveley, with our marginal land and rainy climate. We hope this will provide a useful source of information and inspiration to help increase local food growing. (Watch this space!) All welcome - please come along and share your experiences.

Planning meeting for increasing veg and fruit growing in Staveley
Sunday 4th March 2012
2-4pm at the Pavilion in Staveley (opposite the playground)
Come along to help plan the planting scheme for the public planting sites around the village, including the Forest Garden on the Recreation Ground and beds in the Mill Yard. All welcome.


The main events of the Big Onion year start with Easter Pancake Day. However during the winter we will be organising informal planning meetings and work parties. To join the mailing list to hear about these events please email sustainablestaveley@googlemail.com


Big Onion Backgroundpicture of big onion Easter Event

Staveley Big Onion grew out of Pancake Day, held on Easter Sunday 2011. Weekly events were held over the summer where local fruit and veg was traded, sold and swapped. Cakes and teas and coffees were sold in the volunteer run cafe and talks from various speakers on topics such as growing, keeping hens, wild food, composting etc were all held in the Pavilion.

Other events and activities included supporting Apple Day, Staveley Winter Festival and Staveley Harvest Festival, running a Pumpkin themed event at Starley's, producing a local food map for the village, starting work on a small Forest Garden on the Recreation Ground and planting veg and herbs for all to harvest in the Mill Yard (with other sites planned). At Easter 2012 the Big Onion will return to the Pavilion.

To join the mailing list email sustainablestaveley@googlemail.com or look out for posters on the noticeboards.


Achievments of Staveley Big Onion during 2011

Read about some of the achievments of the Big Onion during 2011 in the latest SENS newsletter here.

Staveley Egg Map

Download a map of local food available in Staveley here. Download the back page of the map with updated list of producers/retailers here.

This map was put together collaboratively with Alan Lord in 2011 as part of the Staveley Big Onion. If you have any updates or suggestions please email sustainablestaveley@googlemail.com



The Big Onion is supported by the Lake District Sustainable Development Fund. supported by the SDF


 
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