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Govanhill Baths Community Trust in Glasgow recently held a Big Lunch to celebrate the end of Refugee Week and to commemorate 10 years of community activity to reopen the Swimming Baths at the heart of the community. With an estimated 42 different nationalities living within the square mile of Govanhill, Refugee Week proved the perfect [...]
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Northern Irish eyes are smiling because last week the Big Lottery Fund awarded four Lottery grants totalling nearly £240,000 to community projects that can now go on to inspire people to get more involved in their local area. Community projects from all over Northern Ireland were encouraged to compete for the funding. UTV regional news featured the finalists [...]
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We’ve teamed up with Landshare again this year to try and encourage all those with green fingers to sow some seeds for their Big Lunch. It’s a great opportunity for like-minded growers to get together in their area and share some delicious home grown produce. You can use Landshare Groups to find people in your [...]
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Our friends at Capital Growth – the initiative that aims to encourage Londoners to grow their own food – have just launched a fantastic new competition for 50 communities in London to win the equipment, bees and training to help them start up with beekeeping. The competition is part of the Capital Bee project that [...]
We’ve just got news in of the first Big Lunch to have taken place in Australia this year. The organiser, Tina Jackson, wrote to tell us about the day: ‘Around 200 people picnicked on home grown food in the village square for Mosman’s Big Lunch, the first of its kind to be held in Australia. [...]
Read The Big Lunch down under!…
We’re a pioneering local food growing project based in north Cornwall (not far from the Eden Project). And we’re enthusiastic Big Lunchers! Camel Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is growing fresh, seasonal vegetables for members to share. The emphasis is on shared effort and shared reward. We’ll be eating vegetables we’ve grown ourselves at the Big Lunch on our two-acre site. [...]
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My turnips nearly died… but I gave them the kiss of life. I forgot to mention that it was me that nearly killed them. (Note to self – always do your research before you start hacking away at live things.) Turnips – need – thinning. Just because they have gone all bushy and wild does [...]
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Big Jubilee Lunch 2012, an Eden Project
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