An even­ing of live music fea­tu­ing ‘Sole­bound’, dar­bua, Irish folk and solo gui­tar to raise money for life-saving med­ical work in Syria.

8pm, 26^th June, The Cow­ley Club, 12 Lon­don Road, BN1 4JA 01273 696104

Stan­mer based grow­ing group Fork and Dig It are launch­ing a share issue with a dif­fer­ence: a share in this year’s har­vest of organic local veg.

Fork and Dig it set up the pop­u­lar ‘Veg Share’ two years ago, as Brighton’s first com­munity sup­por­ted agri­cul­ture (CSA) scheme. CSAs are a way for people to access qual­ity local pro­duce at an afford­able price, by volun­teer­ing some of their time to grow it. The more pro­duce is grown, the greater the size of each share!

All the pro­duce is grown in Stan­mer Park and cer­ti­fied organic by the Soil Asso­ci­ation. The veg travels weekly to Brighton and Hove pick up points so as to keep ‘food miles’ to a min­imum and guar­an­tee fresh­ness; or share­hold­ers can opt for door­step deliv­ery. All profits go back into the group and there are dis­counts for people on a low income.

Fork and Dig It wel­come also wel­come volun­teers  on a drop in basis every Tues­day and Fri­day and the first Sunday of the month, to enjoy the group’s beau­ti­ful site at Stan­mer Organ­ics; learn about organic grow­ing; and be part of this friendly com­munity project.

There are just 35 veg shares avail­able on a first come first served basis, with prices from £10 per week. For more inform­a­tion see www.forkanddigit.co.uk or ring 07969 805795.

Note to editors:

Fork and Dig It is a volun­teer led com­munity grow­ing group based in Stan­mer Organ­ics, Stan­mer Park, Brighton and cer­ti­fied organic by the Soil Asso­ci­ation. They grow on just under 2 acres of land sur­roun­ded by lovely woods on the edge of the Downs.

Com­munity Sup­por­ted Agri­cul­ture (CSA) offers an innov­at­ive approach where a food or farm enter­prise has mem­bers who own ‘shares’ in the har­vest and there­fore also share in the risk. 

Local food- there has been con­sid­er­able growth in the local food sec­tor with organic box schemes, farm­ers’ mar­kets, farm shops and more recently com­munity sup­por­ted agriculture.

The Soil Asso­ci­ation is a char­ity cam­paign­ing for planet-friendly food and farm­ing and has some of the most com­pre­hens­ive stand­ards for organic pro­duc­tion and pro­cessing in the world.

CONTACT:  For information/ photos/ interviews/ site visit/ photo oppor­tun­it­ies con­tact Emily: 07969 805795 or sales@forkanddigit.co.uk   www.forkanddigit.co.uk

Last week a drilling rig was set up near Bal­come in Sus­sex to start bor­ing for water samples, tak­ing res­id­ents and the Envir­on­ment Agency by sur­prise. This has gal­van­ised the local com­munity to set up “Rig­watch” — a gath­er­ing of people to mon­itor Cuadrilla’s activities.

Friends of the Earth South East Regional Cam­paigner, Brenda Pol­lack said:

“Shale gas will do little to tackle rising energy bills. It’s extrac­tion will have a dam­aging impact on local com­munit­ies and their envir­on­ment, and pump more climate-changing emis­sions into the atmosphere.”

Carol Dawes from Brighton & Hove Friends of the Earth added:

“We totally sup­port the people in West Sus­sex who are fight­ing frack­ing.  This energy pro­cess will indus­tri­al­ise the Sus­sex land­scape and under­mine invest­ment in clean, renew­able energy.”

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LISTEN HERE TO MEETING IN FULL

Speak­ers:
Dr Mari­ann Lloyd-Smith — Inter­na­tional expert on tox­ics and con­tam­in­a­tion and advisor to the anti-fracking move­ment in Aus­tralia
Tony Janio B&H Coun­cil Con­ser­vat­ive envir­on­ment lead
Howard Johns — founder of South­ern Solar and expert in local energy solu­tions
Tony Bos­worth — Friends of the Earth Energy Campaigner

Frack­ing for shale gas is one of the hot­test envir­on­mental issues of the moment. Exper­i­ence from the US has raised con­cerns about con­tam­in­a­tion of water resources and air pol­lu­tion. Pro­pos­als for shale gas drilling in the UK have led to vig­or­ous local opposition,but the Gov­ern­ment is determ­ined to press ahead. Its sup­port­ers say shale gas is a key part of our energy future , but what will be its impact on the local envir­on­ment, on tack­ling cli­mate change and on energy bills

LISTEN HERE TO CAROL DAWES FROM FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ON THE IMMINENT  EXPLORATORY DRILLING AT CUCKFIELD

See lively intro­duc­tion of the Dangers of Fracking

FOE’s report on Frack­ing is here: http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/shale_gas.pdf

AND A STORY NOT OF CUCKFIELD SUSSEX BUT OF COOK’S VALLEY  USA AND THEIR EXPERIENCE OF FRACKING

This story is the first install­ment of Truthout’s Frack­ing Road Trip series on the wide-reaching impacts of the frack­ing industry.  

The bluffs rise up gently from the rolling hills and farm­lands of Wisconsin’s Chip­pewa County. For years, the bluffs stood silent as small farm­ing com­munit­ies grew around them. The bluffs are too steep to farm and most of the trees in the area grow on the tops of bluffs and around their rolling slopes and steep faces. It’s unusu­ally cold for April and trees stand as sil­hou­ettes against a layer of snow.

This scene is quickly inter­rup­ted at the inter­sec­tion of two county roads in the small town­ship of Cooks Val­ley. A large bluff behind a farm has dis­ap­peared. The bluff has been blas­ted, churned up and turned into giant piles of sand. The sand will soon be trucked off to a pro­cessing plant, loaded back into trucks or per­haps onto a wait­ing train and then shipped to oil and gas fields in other states.

The sand will be mixed with water and chem­ic­als and forced deep under­ground to break up rock and release pre­cious fossils fuels. This isn’t the kind of sand you find at the beach; it’s silica, or “frack sand,” a car­ci­no­genic dust and a key ingredi­ent in the hydraulic frack­ing pro­cess which has facil­it­ated a nation­wide nat­ural gas boom and, accord­ing to oppon­ents, an ongo­ing envir­on­mental crisis. Silica particles are uniquely shaped and prop open frac­tures in the under­ground rock to free the oil or gas.

Cooks Val­ley may be far from the oil and gas fields, but like the rural neigh­bor­hoods in states where frack­ing rigs and gas pipelines have replaced pas­tures, the frack industry’s demand for nat­ural resources has pit­ted neigh­bor against neigh­bor and turned this once tight-knit com­munity upside down.

In the Shadow of the Mine

A frack sand pro­cessing plant in Maiden Rock, Wis­con­sin. (Photo: Mike Lud­wig)Jane Sonnentag is a busy woman. Sev­eral chil­dren bounce around her humble kit­chen as she holds her young­est child and laughs as she recalls her father advising her not to marry a farmer. She did not take his advice, and now Sonnentag and her hus­band Louis are rais­ing seven chil­dren on their 160-acre farm nestled between the rising bluffs of Cooks Val­ley. Sonnentag has lived in the area all her life and her fam­ily has farmed there for gen­er­a­tions. Her farm, she says, is a “little piece of heaven.” But Sonnentag’s farm is not as heav­enly as it used to be.

Since 2011, when a massive, out-of-state energy firm won a per­mit to set up shop in their neigh­bor­hood, the Sonnentags have lived in the shadow of a 234-acre frac-sand mine loc­ated on the bluffs behind their farm and home. Sonnentag explains that as many as 400 trucks, laden with silica sand or wastewa­ter from a sand-processing plant, may roll past their home in a day. “I’ve got 400 trucks and seven kids and a yard this size … it’s not fun, you know, being by a stop sign, really,” says Sonnentag. “It’s like David verses Goliath, except I don’t have a slingshot.”

For gen­er­a­tions, mom-and-pop–sized mines in Wis­con­sin have sup­plied silica for a vari­ety of pur­poses, ran­ging from water fil­tra­tion to road pav­ing. But in recent years, the industry has grown expo­nen­tially as the frack­ing boom in other states such as North Dakota, Ohio and Pennsylvania has increased the demand for silica across the coun­try. Big min­ing and energy com­pan­ies have swooped into rural com­munit­ies like the Sonnentag’s to expand exist­ing mines and break ground on massive new ones, turn­ing Wisconsin’s west­ern bluffs into giant piles of sand and its rural towns into cen­ters of sand ship­ment and pro­cessing. There are now 70 act­ive mines oper­at­ing in Wis­con­sin, along with dozens of pro­cessing facil­it­ies. Three mines, each more than 100 acres in size, are cur­rently oper­at­ing within miles of Sonnentag’s home in Cooks Val­ley, a small town­ship of less than 1,000 people.

EOG Resources, a massive energy firm and former Enron sub­sid­ary (known at the time as Enron Oil and Gas), oper­ates the mine near the Sonnentags’ home. The company’s local office told Truthout to con­tact its Hou­s­ton office for com­ments on the mine and its impacts on nearby farms, but a rep­res­ent­at­ive there failed to respond to sev­eral inquiries.

When EOG Resources was blast­ing apart the bluffs, Sonnentag says, the shock would shake her house. Once a blast knocked her to the floor. At times, dust from the min­ing oper­a­tions would invade their farm. EOG Resources would dis­patch a couple of water trucks every hour to wet down the dust and keep it out of the air, but the effort was “like tak­ing a thimble to a dust bowl.” With dust blow­ing in the wind and hun­dreds of trucks passing their house every­day, the Sonnentags became increas­ingly con­cerned about their health. “There were not a lot of days we could go out­side, because we have two kids who have asthma,” Sonnentag says.

Silica dust is a known car­ci­no­gen and has been linked to lung dis­ease and can­cer among work­ers, and the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has set lim­its on silica expos­ure for the work­place — but has not set lim­its on pub­lic expos­ure. The frack sand industry in Wis­con­sin routinely assures the pub­lic that air­borne silica poses no proven dangers to the pub­lic, but without any fed­eral or state reg­u­la­tion of expos­ure, the industry’s assur­ances do little to ease Sonnentag’s mind. What if silica is the next asbes­tos, she won­ders? Her fam­ily never signed up to be “test dum­mies.” And what about the water? Point­ing toward the mine, Sonnentag says that EOG Resources is cur­rently truck­ing wastewa­ter from its sand-processing plant, where the sand is treated with water and chem­ic­als, and dump­ing it back into the mine. “I always thought my kids would want to live here long after we’re gone, but now I don’t know. There might not be any air to breath and water to drink.”

Reg­u­lat­ors Stretched Thin

The Wis­con­sin Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources (DNR) reg­u­lates sand mines as “non­metal­lic mines,” a class that includes the small gravel pits and lime­stone mines that have long oper­ated through­out the state. Tom Woletz, the DNR point per­son on frack sand, tells Truthout that DNR has reg­u­lated sand mines in this way for years, but now the frack-sand rush has brought much lar­ger mines to the state. “The fugit­ive dust, that is a poten­tial prob­lem, and that’s what people are con­cerned about,” Woletz says.

DNR requires mine oper­at­ors to mon­itor silica dust emis­sions and report them to the state, but DNR offi­cials rarely visit the mines in per­son. Fed­eral fund­ing requires the agency’s lim­ited staff to focus on major sources of air pol­lu­tion such as large metal­lic mines.

“Some of these mines are never going to see a DNR air inspector at all unless there is a com­plaint,” says Woletz. “We could use more people on the ground to make sure that these people are doing the appro­pri­ate things.” A state budget pro­posal could add two more com­pli­ance officers to the DNR staff, and Woletz says DNR could always use more people. But much of the respons­ib­il­ity to keep silica out of the air in rural neigh­bor­hoods falls on the industry, he says, and DNR can’t always be there to hold its hand. “There’s some really good [oper­at­ors] out there, and there’s some that have a ways to go,” he says.

In 2012 alone, the DNR issued viol­a­tions to at least 15 frack-sand oper­at­ors in the state, accord­ing to state records.

Under state rules, a mine loc­ated near a child care cen­ter or a neigh­bor­hood oper­ates under the same pol­lu­tion stand­ards as a mine loc­ated in the middle of a forest, accord­ing to Woletz. In many cases, it’s up to the county or local gov­ern­ment to reg­u­late truck­ing, mine loc­a­tions and land use. With some res­id­ents sup­port­ing local meas­ures to pro­tect their homes and farms and other res­id­ents eager to cash in on the sand rush, local con­tro­ver­sies over sand mine reg­u­la­tion have cre­ated bru­tal divi­sions in com­munit­ies that would oth­er­wise be mod­els of Mid­west­ern neighborliness.

“There are fam­ily mem­bers up in Chip­pewa County that may never talk to each other again, ever,” Woletz admits.

That’s a famil­iar story to Sonnentag, who was involved in a local push to reg­u­late the sand mines in Cooks Val­ley under a local ordin­ance that was opposed by local landown­ers, includ­ing her neigh­bors. “Sand has dic­tated everything in this town … pit­ted neigh­bor against neigh­bor,” she says. The best man at her wed­ding will no longer talk to her. He wanted to start a mine on his land, Sonnentag says, and saw her fam­ily and other sup­port­ers of the ordin­ance as stand­ing in his way.

“It’s unfor­tu­nate, because he’s no closer to get­ting that mine star­ted than I am to becom­ing a veget­arian,” Sonnentag says with a grin.

A Frac­tured Community

Sleet is turn­ing the snow to ice out­side of Sonnentag’s house, but her kit­chen, busy with young chil­dren arran­ging pots and pans on the floor, is warm and cozy. Sonnentag chats with Vic­toria Trinko, who lives a few miles up the road on a small farm loc­ated across the street from a frack sand mine. The two women are dis­cuss­ing the local polit­ics sur­round­ing the ordin­ance they fought for years to put in place in order to reg­u­late the sand mine operations.

“It’s really split our com­munity apart,” Trinko says.

Earlier that morn­ing, Trinko had returned to her home after volun­teer­ing at a Sunday pan­cake break­fast. She says the turnout was good con­sid­er­ing the cold weather and a bit of friendly com­pet­i­tion from another pan­cake break­fast at a local church. She takes a seat in her liv­ing room, where she has agreed to be inter­viewed by Truthout. A pic­ture of her daugh­ter, who is now study­ing abroad, hangs above the mantle. The con­ver­sa­tion quickly turns to sand.

Trinko is the Cooks Val­ley Board clerk and kept notes on the battle over the ordin­ance, which was first drawn up and passed in 2008 after res­id­ents learned that sand mines might open in the neigh­bor­hood. The ordin­ance addressed noise from blast­ing, hours of oper­a­tion, silica dust con­trol and the num­ber of trucks allowed to rumble down the roads.

Landown­ers who wanted to lease their prop­er­ties to min­ing com­pan­ies or open their own mines quickly hired a law­yer and sued the town to defeat the ordin­ance. It amoun­ted to a “zon­ing ordin­ance” and was not prop­erly filed with the county, they argued, and a local judge agreed.

“So we appealed,” Trinko says, “and that made them all angry.”

What fol­lowed was three years of lit­ig­a­tion and show­downs in the local town hall. At one point, the town board was accused of embez­zle­ment; at another, the pro-mining landown­ers tried to take over the board and dis­miss Cooks Valley’s vil­lage powers, which, under state law, grant the town­ship the author­ity to pass ordinances.

“It’s got­ten really, really nasty,” Trinko says.

Neigh­bors have sued neigh­bors, and Trinko her­self was sued (along with two board super­visors) over open records laws. Mean­while, the town board con­tin­ued to appeal the chal­lenge to the min­ing ordin­ance, which even­tu­ally landed at the Wis­con­sin Supreme Court. As clerk, Trinko had been keep­ing notes through­out the whole fiasco, and even­tu­ally, she had to hand them over to the highest court in the state.

“I was very proud of myself, I guess, or sat­is­fied, that my paper­work held up in the [Wis­con­sin] Supreme Court,” Trinko says with a smile.

In 2012, the Wis­con­sin Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision and ruled in favor of the Town of Cooks Val­ley, and the town­ship was finally allowed to begin enfor­cing the reg­u­la­tions it ori­gin­ally passed in 2008. As the battle over the ordin­ance wove its way through the courts, how­ever, three mines were estab­lished in Cooks Val­ley, includ­ing those near the Trinko and Sonnentag farms. To date, the town­ship has only com­pleted the per­mit­ting pro­cess for one mine under the ordin­ance. A draft per­mit pre­pared by the town­ship for the EOG Resources mine includes man­dat­ory air mon­it­or­ing and a $112,500 fee to be paid to the Sonnentag fam­ily, so they can build a new house, across the street and farther away from the mine’s truck­ing route.

For Trinko, the mat­ter of sand min­ing con­tin­ues to be a big part of daily life. As town clerk, she receives per­mit notices and posts them in pub­lic places such as the local bar. But there are more per­sonal issues as well. In 2011, after the mines began dig­ging into the bluffs, Trinko said she could “chew on dust” when work­ing out­side her house. Soon she would have a sore throat, but not the cold that usu­ally accom­pan­ies it. She says the symp­toms dis­ap­pear when she travels to visit rel­at­ives in other states.

Trinko now believes she has developed asthma from liv­ing near the sand mines. She saw a breath­ing spe­cial­ist who told her that the breath­ing prob­lems were related to her liv­ing envir­on­ment, but the spe­cial­ist refuses to go on the record with report­ers due to the ongo­ing controversy.

Trinko says her daugh­ter is wor­ried the air pol­lu­tion may be short­en­ing her life, but she wants to stay on her farm. It has been in her fam­ily since her father bought it in 1936. Trinko points out the win­dow to a bluff rising bey­ond the next pasture.

“That bluff … that’s where my dad grew up,” Trinko says. Frack-sand min­ing and pro­cessing con­tin­ues nearby, and another facil­ity in the area is under devel­op­ment. “It would be very sad to see all the trees dis­ap­pear. Plus, I am breath­ing this stuff.”

Scott is back for one week only and He and Rob are back to their old selves. Two charm­ing Uni­ver­sity of Brighton stu­dents let loose on the air­waves. Cov­er­ing everything from films to news, the Brighton uni­ver­sity stu­dents mix wit and charm whilst doing their best not to swear and offend. Listen here to their latest show

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/primarkjobs-mango-matalan-ensure-safety-for-workers-compensate-victims-of-building-collapse

Radio Free Brighton’s Maria McE­voy exam­ines the issues around the hun­ger strike at Guantanamo Bay with con­sult­ant neur­o­lo­gist and human rights cam­paigner David Nich­oll, Joy Hurcombe of the Save Shaker Aamer Cam­paign, Clara Gut­ter­idge Human rights law­yer form­ally with reprieve.org and her fel­low RFB reporter Mis­sie, who is work­ing with young people from Pri­ory School amnesty group who are join­ing the cam­paign.  Listen here

Update: Brighton & Hove MP Car­oline Lucas called for the Prime Min­is­ter David Cameron to per­son­ally inter­vene and phone Pres­id­ent Obama now to secure the release of Shaker back to the UK and his fam­ily. Watch the video at  bit.ly/104K63

Read on if you want to find out more about this story

FORMER GUANTANAMO CHIEF PROSECUTOR LAUNCHES FAST-GROWING ONLINE PETITION TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO

• Col. Mor­ris Davis, former Chief Pro­sec­utor at Guantanamo Bay from 2005 to 2007, launches peti­tion on Change.org call­ing on Pres­id­ent Obama to take con­crete steps to close Guantanamo Bay Deten­tion Center.
• Over 75,000 sign onto Col. Davis’ peti­tion in less than 24 hours, fol­low­ing Pres­id­ent Obama’s vow in a press con­fer­ence on Tues­day to renew efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.

WASHINGTON, DC – Col­onel Mor­ris Davis, who was the Chief Pro­sec­utor for Ter­ror­ism Tri­als at Guantanamo Bay from 2005 to 2007, has launched a rap­idly grow­ing peti­tion on Change.org call­ing on Pres­id­ent Obama to ful­fill his prom­ise to close the Guantanamo Bay Deten­tion Center.

As the Chief Pro­sec­utor for Ter­ror­ism Tri­als at Guantanamo Bay. Col. Davis per­son­ally pro­sec­uted Osama Bin Laden’s driver Salim Ham­dan, David Hicks, and Omar Khadr. Davis stepped down from his post due to dis­agree­ment over the use of cer­tain inter­rog­a­tion tech­niques. Since leav­ing his post at Guantanamo, Davis has become one of the prison’s most out­spoken crit­ics. On Tues­day, he star­ted a Change.org peti­tion call­ing on Obama to ful­fill past prom­ises to close the deten­tion facil­ity and to trans­fer the 86 detain­ees cleared for release.

“As the Chief Pro­sec­utor for the Ter­ror­ism Tri­als at Guantanamo Bay, I saw many things that I regret see­ing. Since its begin­ning Guantanamo has been costly, inef­fi­cient, and mor­ally wrong,” said Col. Mor­ris Davis, who launched the cam­paign on Change.org. “Now there are over 100 inmates on hun­ger strike to protest their cur­rent situ­ation. Obama must uphold the prom­ise that he made on Tues­day and close Guantanamo Bay Deten­tion Cen­ter before someone dies.”

In less than 24 hours, over 75,000 people have signed onto the peti­tion, and it has been covered in the Guard­ian, BBC, and The Huff­ing­ton Post.

The peti­tion is part of a grow­ing grass­roots move­ment around the issue. Wit­ness Against Tor­ture has coördin­ated people around the coun­try to fast in solid­ar­ity with the hun­ger strike, hun­dreds of let­ters have been writ­ten to the pris­on­ers, and hun­dreds of phone calls have been made to the Depart­ment of Defense, White House, and US Military’s South­ern Command.

As of May 1, over 100 inmates out of 166 total pris­on­ers were on hun­ger strike at Guantanamo Bay. The hun­ger strike began with a few men in Feb­ru­ary in protest of cur­rent prison con­di­tions, and it is estim­ated that 21 are cur­rently being force fed.

“Col. Davis is using Change.org’s tools to suc­cess­fully con­nect with thou­sands of people who sup­port his peti­tion to close Guantanamo Bay,” said Emilia Guti­er­rez, cam­paign man­ager at Change.org. “It’s clear his cam­paign is res­on­at­ing with people.”

Journ­al­ists inter­ested in set­ting up an inter­view should use the con­tact details at the top of the page.

Live sig­na­ture totals from Col. Davis’ petition:

• www.change.org/CloseGitmo

Journ­al­ists in con­tact­ing the US Depart­ment of Defense Press Office should try:

United States Depart­ment of Defense

• (703) 697– 5131

For more inform­a­tion on Wit­ness Against Tor­ture, please visit:

• http://witnesstorture.org

For more inform­a­tion on Change.org, please visit:

• http://www.change.org/about

Change.org is the world’s largest peti­tion plat­form, empower­ing people every­where to cre­ate the change they want to see. There are more than 35 mil­lion users in every coun­try who use our tools to trans­form their com­munit­ies – loc­ally, nation­ally and globally.

This was February’s Free Pub­lic Sci­ence Lec­ture at Sus­sex Uni — awesome.

Listen here to

Suites, Son­atas and Partitas for harp­si­chord and baroque flute.

Massimo popped into the stu­dio to describe the music and to let us hear the won­der­ful Baroque flute. LISTEN HERE

To hear the  full con­cert click here.

Pro­gramme:
’Eng­lish’ Suites BWV 807 and 808
Partita BWV 830
Son­ata for flauto tra­ver­siere and cem­balo obbligato BWV 1030

Robert Good­man, baroque flute
Massimo Redaelli, harpsichord

Tick­ets £7 (£5 con­ces­sions) in advance by ringing 01273 603459 or at the door on the night.

Put on your wel­lies and enjoy autumn with an action-packed pro­gramme of activ­it­ies at Wil­der­ness Wood ;

High­lights include:

NEW: Wood­skills Bush­craft courses

Woodkids activ­it­ies ran­ging from Fairy Gar­dens to Mon­ster Hunts & Cast­aways every week­end & each day in half term

Fungi For­ays to find & learn about wood­land toad­stools & mushrooms

Cut your own Christ­mas tree reser­va­tions from 27^th Octo­ber (mem­bers) & 1^st Novem­ber (gen­eral public)

Or simply explore a net­work of wood­land trails around the 62-acre ancient wood­land, let off steam in the wood­land adven­ture play­ground, and enjoy a deli­cious selec­tion of local and organic food & drink (includ­ing Sunday roasts) in the lovely timber-frame Barn café.

All activ­it­ies must be booked in advance — call 01825 830509

Sun 18 Make your own Char­cloth (Bushcraft)

Sat 24 Wood­land Monsters

Sat 24 Super­shel­ters (Bushcraft)

Sun 25 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Fri 30 Christ­mas Tree Light­ing Party

For more inform­a­tion and how to book please see www.wildernesswood.co.uk/