http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/event/feed July 30 2010- August 29 2010 en http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/node/821 <div class="start">Start: 03/07/2010 - 09:30</div> <div class="end">End: 07/08/2010 - 15:00</div> <h3><a target="_blank" href="http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/sites/default/files/images/beekeeping_Apr10.preview.jpg"><img hspace="10" height="288" align="left" width="200" vspace="10" alt="" src="http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/sites/default/files/images/beekeeping_Apr10.preview.jpg" /></a><em>There are still 4 place left on their beekeeping course starting on Saturday July 3rd. Please see attached poster for more info. Very good course, very good value for money. Pls contact Offshoots directly if interested .. details below.</em></h3> <p>Because it is such short notice, if you are unable to start until week 2, then this is OK.</p> <p>Phill Dewhurst<br /> Offshoots Project Manager<br /> Offshoots Permaculture Project<br /> Tel: 01282 450270<br /> Fax: 01282 436138<br /> Web: <a href="http://www.offshoots.org.uk" title="www.offshoots.org.uk">www.offshoots.org.uk</a></p> <p><strong>Click image to enlarge.</strong></p> http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/node/821#comments Bees Offshoots Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:51:11 -0500 http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/node/817 <div class="start">Start: 30/07/2010 - 18:00</div> <div class="end">End: 01/08/2010 - 18:00</div> <h3><img hspace="10" height="225" width="300" border="10" align="right" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs331.snc3/29161_388475716324_736156324_4103981_6676924_n.jpg" alt="" /></h3> <h3><em>This is the final in a series of four forest gardening weekends that we have organised over the last year at Middlewood Permaculture Trust on Slack Bottom Farm near Lancaster. We have had over 70 people in the garden over the previous weekends, and you are invited to come along too, and lend a helping hand in the forest garden, gain skills and knowledge, and celebrate the special time known in the ancient pagan calanders as the Lammas (or Lughnasadh) 'fire festival'.<br /> </em><br /> Last summer a group of us hatched a plan to open up the forest garden, and bring about fresh energy and change. It was agreed that we would organise a series of four weekends, to co-incide with the pagan festivals: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. As a result, a hardy group assembled for Samhain (Halloween) last year, and set about opening up the forest garden, making it accessible, and building a large fire pit, around which we drummed and danced under the full moon ... until the wind blew up and the rains came in!</h3> http://manchesterpermaculturenetwork.howcreative.co.uk/node/817#comments Forest Garden forest gardening lammas Middlewood rod everet Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:35:46 -0500