Date Saturday 17th May ’25Time 12.00 – 4.00pm Designing and prototyping Biochar burn from 4.00pmLocation Meadow Orchard Project Last year we built a couple of Top Lit Up Draft TLUD biochar retorts, combing a small oven and a hot plate for cooking on. The next step we are looking at how to utilise the heatContinue reading “Biochar Pizza Oven”
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Transition Towns Relaunch @MOP 🫂
Transition Town Crouch End & Finsbury Park Our volunteers, along with our friends at Edible Landscapes London and Wolves Lane are helping to relaunch Transition Town Crouch End and Finsbury Park! Come along to find out more! We’ll be sharing a hot soup, please feel free to bring food. Hear an intro, and chat aboutContinue reading “Transition Towns Relaunch @MOP 🫂”
Transition Towns Finsbury Park & Crouch End
Want to get more involved in local green initiatives? Want to support or implement practical projects around food, energy, waste, transport and nature in our community? Want to help address social injustices and decolonise our lives? Want to be part of a growing international movement of connected local communities creating change? It sounds like youContinue reading “Transition Towns Finsbury Park & Crouch End”
Harnessing Solar Power: Green Energy
Low voltage lighting in our Roundhouse We are going to add a lighting system in our Roundhouse classroom. This will increase its usability for our site users. We are planning to install a low voltage (12 volt) solar system to provide off-grid power. For lighting we will use very efficient 7 watt LED spotlights. SpotlightsContinue reading “Harnessing Solar Power: Green Energy”
Transition Towns Tour ’23
The London Transitions Gathering Tour In Summer 2023, Transition Towns groups joined together for a four day tour of Community Gardens, Group Projects and Permaculture Sites across London. Meadow Orchard was one of the stops on the tour! Members of the project were delighted to host the group at the project. What is Transition Towns?Continue reading “Transition Towns Tour ’23”
Biochar Burn @MOP
Site Closed Today Edit: We regret to inform you that Meadow Orchard is closed today due to Storm Darragh. In light of the yellow weather warning and the potential risk of falling branches, we have made the decision to close the site for safety reasons. We appreciate your understanding. The activity We will be preparingContinue reading “Biochar Burn @MOP”
Biochar Cook Stoves
Soil at Meadow Orchard is very shallow as the majority of the site was previously used as tennis courts, the ground has previously been made up with a thick drainage layer of clinker under the tennis court surfacing, leaving very little topsoil. The clinker itself can be broken up into the subsoil but that leavesContinue reading “Biochar Cook Stoves”
URBAN SYBIOSIS
Firstly, what is Urban Sybiosis? The basics of Urban Sybiosis is taking waste materials from one stream and utilising it in another. Using local waste materials saves waste from going into landfill, saves having to move the material around in big polluting diesel trucks, saves money and reduces the need for producing new materials, furtherContinue reading “URBAN SYBIOSIS”
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