Food the focus for our next Tuesday Forum

by | 28 Jan 2011 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM

When it comes to sustainability there’s nothing more critical than food, and our current food system is a lot less resilient than we might suppose. It has led to farmers being driven off their land by low returns and rising costs, soils losing their fertility...

ALF Meeting February 2011

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Venue: Armidale Community Cottage, 3 Alexander St, Armidale New participants are always welcome. Just come along to a meeting, or contact Jo Leoni for further information. We try to keep the meeting as brief as possible and then people can stay and socialise longer if...

ArmLETS Get-together

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM

ArmLETS is having it’s first get-together next Wednesday afternoon and would love you to come along. Now that we have exceeded 20 members, we thought it would be nice to have a get together. If you are wanting a job done, it’s much easier to ask someone...

Planning our Autumn Festival float

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM

There will be a get together at 5:30 on Friday 4th February at 163 Barney St to plan the SLA float for this year’s Autumn Festival. We have the basics of an idea, so that’s a good start, now all we need is some group creativity to make it work!

ALF produce stall at the Farmers’ Market

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Calling all of those keen backyard vegie growers out there – have you thought of selling your surplus vegies through the ALF stall at the Farmers’ Market? A bunch or two of silverbeet, a bunch of carrots, one or two lettuces; everyone brings along whatever...

It takes a village to raise a child

by | 24 Jan 2011 | SLAM

While our children played (and argued!) on the trampoline at Helen and Terry’s place last Sunday, some members of the Heart and Soul group sat on the grass beside the kids to chat about ways to build a family-friendly community in a transition town.  We talked about...

ArmLETS: A Gem of an Idea!

by | 8 Dec 2010 | SLAM

LETS is  active in Armidale again and is looking for new members! Local Energy Trading Systems (LETS) are locally initiated, democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprises which provide a community information service and record transactions of members...

Open letter & invitation to the New England community

by | 1 Dec 2010 | Event, SLAM

I am writing to seek your participation at an historic event that will contribute to the future strength, success and well being of our New England Region. On Monday 6 December, at Armidale Town Hall, interested community members, organisations, groups and authorities...