Transition Towns initiatives are springing up all over the world, aiming to build local resilience and community co-operation as a practical and creative community response to climate change, and to reduce our dependence on oil and fossil fuels and tackle the issue of peak oil. We all know we can’t rely on oil forever, so it might be a good idea to plan what we do instead.

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Transition Town Cheltenham aims to empower ourselves and others to improve the quality of life in the town and make a reduced impact on the outside world, whilst looking after the environment and each other.

Edible Park Project

TTC is working with Cheltenham Borough Council this year to convert the Annecy Garden in Sandford Park (at the top of the Strand) into a vegetable garden which is both ornamental, productive and insect-friendly. The delicious edibles will be grown with an array of colourful annual flowers, which will attract bees and other benificial insects, as well as people. The garden will be just as pretty as a bedding scheme, but a lot more interesting and useful.

Weekly work sessions have now begun on Mondays at 6-8pm. We will be putting up our beanpoles, cut from local hazel coppice, and adding to the peas, potatoes, herbs and flowers that are already planted.
See Food Group, Echo & SoGlos articles contact Lorraine for more details.