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 WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PART OF ‘EAT-LOCHWINNOCH!’

Lochwinnoch’s local Food Group ?

  Current Members of the Group are:  Rob Welsh, Mary Alice Mansell, Lesley Scott,  Sean Middleton, Shelley Mellor, and Sue Whitfield. The group are keen to develop local food initiatives and are currently organising Lochwinnoch’s 3rd Mini Food Fair for Sat 24th Marc.The next will be on  April 28th.  If you would like to run a stall, get involved, play some music , please get in touch! We are planning a larger Spring Food Fair for Sat May 26th, and if you have any ideas or suggestions how to make this better for the village we would like to hear from you. Other developing ideas include:

  • Learning more about local foraging,
  • A Food Cooperative working in conjunction with Green City a wholesaler of quality organic and natural food produce,
  • A delivery box scheme using locally produced products for example fresh meat, cheeses and honey,
  • Local Cookery Lessons.

If you’d like to be part of this or have other ideas you’d like to progress please get involved.  The Group meet next on Monday 16th April at 6pm in The Hub, why not come along ?  To find out more contact Rob Welsh at the LEAP office on 01505 842 530 or email leap@lochwinnoch.info

 

GARDEN SHARING

Do you have a garden to share or do you need one?

In order to encourage and facilitate more garden space for growing our own vegetables, LEAP is asking  Lochwinnoch residents to tell us if they have a garden that they either don't want to cultivate any more or are unable to.  If we then find people in the village who would like to grow their own but don't have a suitable garden, we can bring the two parties together.  So if you are in either category and would like to join the LEAP garden-sharing scheme, please come and register   

Our ambition is to reduce Lochwinnoch’s carbon footprint and be more self sufficient as a positive action in dealing with the twin threats of Climate Change & massively increasing oil prices, and in addition help us eat more locally and healthily