Transition Town Brixton
Supporting transition to a sustainable Brixton
Online Permaculture Trainings
As we had to postpone this year’s community engagement work and Permaculture Design Courses at Roupell Park, we used the time to develop an online programme of courses and workshops. Our Brixton-based in-person courses and other work will surely resume in latest 2021. Find belo some links here to our upcoming online events. Find all [...]
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Permaculture Design Course – Creating Resilient Communities
After a year break in 2019, Social Landscapes is offering their fully certified Permaculture Design Course – Creating Resilient Communities again in 2020. The course starts in April and runs over 6 weekends between April and October. There are additional optional Saturday afternoon session covering the basics of organic and permaculture gardening.
The Actual Permaculture Design [...]
Celebrating 10 years of TTB
Our 10th birthday party heard a special message from Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement (see below), watched a fantastic short film, heard from many of the TTB originated projects such as Incredible Edible Lambeth, the Brixton Pound, Brixton Remakery, Brixton Energy, Repowering, Open Project Night as well as Crystal Palace Transition Town and Transition [...]
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Preparing Locally for a No-Deal Brexit
On Monday 8 October at Open Project Night we convened a discussion and planning event to which we invited local people, stakeholders, organisations and the council. Sadly none of the latter came though we had some apologies including from Chuka Umunna MP.
The aim was to look at what might happen on 29 March 2019 and [...]
Local Food is the Business – taking action
More than 50 local food activists assembled at Open Project Night on 22 May to hear from 4 local food enterprises and think how we can supply the gaps and challenges so that we can move towards a local food system that can supply real local needs and begin to compete with the corporate take-over [...]
“Local Food is the Business” event
Monday 22 April, 6.30 for local food and networking, start 7pm – 9.30pm at Open Project Night at the Impact Hub Brixton, (back of POPBrixton) 49 Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PQ.
Book your FREE ticket here
There are a lot of really great innovative food projects in Lambeth. We have a range of community farms, greenhouses, box schemes, [...]
Bank of Lambeth update
February’s Brixton Bugle features a good introduction our plans for the Bank of Lambeth.
Our facebook page is now live and will be posting interesting stuff twice weekly. Please like, follow, share posts and invite friends. We have a target of 100 likes by the end of February.
A small but growing project group meets every second [...]
Urban Permaculture Design Course
Social Landscapes is running a full accredited Permaculture Design Course starting in April. The course puts special emphasis on the use of Permaculture in the urban context: small scale food growing, retrofitting of houses, water in the home, working in groups, livelihood and transition, while not ignoring other topics, such as agroforestry, natural building and [...]