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Book Reviews
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Common or Garden
Common or Garden by Ken Thompson
This fascinating book takes you on an extremely interesting journey to help explain why some wild plants, those we are most likely to come across, are so successful.
Compost Coach
The Compost coach has become my new composting bible. It has the science to back everything up but Compostable Kate manages to explain this all in a way that is comprehensible and in just enough detail to grasp your attention and keep you reading on.
Entangled Life
How to read a tree
How to Read a Tree by Tristan Gooley (Hodder Press)
This interesting book encourages us to look more carefully at every single tree to try to ‘read’ its origin, its growth pattern and all the influences on that growth pattern and what this can tell us about light, temperature, soil and other trees.
The Food Solution by Dr Gundula Rhoades
This is an amazing book. Dr Rhoades is a vet, practising and farming organically in Australia, who has "connected the dots" between what we eat, modern diseases, how our food is grown and the sorry state of the planet.
Wild Fell
Lee Schofield, Wild Fell 2022 Transworld Publishers/Penguin
There have been a number of books about farming and wild life over the last ten years or so, particularly in a Lakeland context.
Two groups are fiercely defending their seemingly incompatible corners. The book “Wild Fell”, seems to rise above all of this and find a way through to get farming and nature conservation to be compatible.
Local Organisations
Resources
PACT
Penrith Action For Community Transition
Penrith Action for Community Transition (PACT) is a sustainability group committed to decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, reducing carbon emissions, helping to build resilience to climate change and restoring biodiversity to nature depleted areas. PACT consists of like-minded and enthusiastic volunteers working together on matters such as energy, transport, waste and recycling, food and nature recovery to make a real difference in the local area.
National Organisations
Resources
Garden Organic
The leading British organisation for organic gardening.
Garden Organic (formerly the Henry Doubleday Association) promotes organic growing and composting, citizen science and research, and seed conservation through their Heritage Seed Library. They help you garden 'the organic way', using natural methods to promote healthy, productive, sustainable gardens.
Recipes
Resources
Apple and Almond Dessert
This is a favourite recipe and never fails to please. It is also Gluten free, and can easily be adapted for Vegans.
Quick Pineapple Fruit Cake
This delicious fruit cake is very moist due to the pineapple, so store it in the fridge until it is eaten.
Stir Fried Cabbage
Quick Cabbage Recipe
This dish was cooked by Michelle at the AGM, when successful recipes were being shared.
Featured resource
Garden Organic
Garden Organic (formerly the Henry Doubleday Association) promotes organic growing and composting, citizen science and research, and seed conservation through their Heritage Seed Library. They help you garden 'the organic way', using natural methods to promote healthy, productive, sustainable gardens.
Contact: secretary@cumbriaorganic.org.uk
Fresh Fruit Flapjack