Topics covered will include
- A brief history of permaculture and the birth of green movements (including
transition towns)
- Solutions thinking for urban living
- Ethics of permaculture
- Permaculture principles
- Recognising inputs and outputs of a system
- Observation skills
- Recognising and utilising patterns in nature
- The intricate web of life (why we should value diversity)
- Effective design tools
- Understanding your energy zones and sectors
- Reducing your energy consumption by designing your day to day life efficiently
- Design practical

The last few hours of the weekend culminate in a design practical. This is an
opportunity to work in small groups to put all the design and analysis tools you
have learnt throughout the day into practice. If you have a project you wish to
present as a potential design case, please bring it with you.
If there is interest will also do some wild food foraging, and have a
permaculture question and answer session

Some links to interesting videos around permaculture.

Rob Hopkins. Founder of Transition Town speaking at TED.

Carolyn Steel on Hungry Cities at TED. (Not about permaculture directly but the links are implicit to a systems way of thinking about food which is rooted in the principles of permaculture.)

the Emely Cafe Press Realease
“By playing Café we want to learn more about economics of scale and find strategies for artistic survival. So far we have done our work for free and with little resources. Now, its time to learn how our work could grow and become sustainable in a long term, without us turning into a big thing or even worse, the big society. With this Café we want to bring together small businesses and home-based artists to find out about their (and our) working conditions. The Café will provide the space and framework for this endeavour. And it will also be a place where you can simply sit down and have a good cup of tea.”

The Emely will publish a book about this Café, this will feature the suppliers of the Cafe and their work processes. The book can be read for free at the Café, purchased for 5 Pounds or swapped for doing the washing up.

Sourcing supplies from small businesses & home-based art projects.
Tea from the Quilliam brothers
Coffee from Federation Coffee
Jam for Cream Teas from Pickling Peckham
Sandwich fillings and scones from Sprouting 56
Kitchen foil and cleaning materials from Mr Patel’s Londis shop
Bread from Blackbird bakery
Furniture from the Emely’s previous projects

CAFE DEVELOPEMENT
13/02/2011: intial meeting working it out in the pub with a dog that joined in15/02/2011: evening meeting working out budget, timescale, & publication

17/02/2011: Rosalie at the no-more Tesco campaign to save Mr Patel’s Londis shop, buying cleaning materials from Mr Patel’s shop. Sign the petition here. 18/02/2011: Rosalie visiting the the space

Sandwich fillings and scones from Sprouting56

Sprouting56 at The New Gallery Jumble,

The New Gallery Jumble
Saturday 15th January, 11am – 6pm
The New Gallery London, 92 Peckham Road

Is a mix of stalls, of upcycled crafts, repurposed and secondhand things and workshops includding a make it last area to retrive old garments with provided materials.
We will be on a stall selling our publication Grassroots, providing plants for people and someother things.

A brilliant lie in while watching Blackpool, which is a bbc musical comedy drama tv series, that we have devoured in the evenings while ‘switching off” from Food & Things. It is ridiculously great in some weird addictive way.

Afternoon – Duck Sweets & vege swops

TV Dinner – Blackpool & Soup

‘Dropping off Rosalie’  in the snow

With us relaxed and releived, we decided that we should walk to Brixton and ‘drop Rosalie of home’, as we had been doing Food & things for a total of hours, it was time to leave the house and be outside in the snow. I think it took us about an hour and a half to walk to Brixton. Our walk included; swallen gums, large snowballs, lost gloves, criticising the institute we have graduated from, San Keller – The Long Way Home, quotes from Blackpool, falling over, rolling in the snow, snowballs, picking up old chairs & tea.

Afternoon – finger knitting

Supper – Meze Feast

Tonights Food & Things supper had an added element of a workshop from Saadiqah Rahman. Using traditional Bengali cooking instruments, Saadiqah lead a  workshop on cooking Chapatis and Potaoe Bhajees. Alongside this we ate a meze of salads, dips and greek pie. Having the workshop was really good, it made the evening more enlighting, fun and delicious!

Tonights Food: Meze Feast Spanakopita   Houmous, Favoslata        Tzatiki           Celariac Coleslaw Spiced Red Cabbage Carot Salad                  Hot Beetroot Bread         Workshop Chapati cooked on a tava (flat skilet) Potatoe Bhajee

==Afternoon Tea == 2-6pm
Join us for workshops, tea,cakes and to browse our parcel selection of self made things; zines, objects, sweets….you might find a christmas present!

==Communal Supper == 6:30 – 10pm
Come for a night of entertainment at Food & Things, supper includes main pudding and a drink. BOOK A NIGHT ASAP as places are limited,by emailing or ringing us. Selected nights are hosting special guest such as chef Angela and with food sponosrship from Riverford.

Its going to be good, so contact us to get involved, come for tea or come for supper.