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Towards a happy, healthy and resilient Walthamstow


The TransMission Community Garden: an update
A round-up of the tasks undertaken at the most recent gardening session at Transition Walthamstow's TransMission Community Garden
Rebecca Armstrong
Sep 182 min read


Getting water to a site with no access to water in a heatwave
One of the biggest problems we’re facing at the TransMission Community Garden is a lack of water. Here’s how we temporarily found a...
Rebecca Armstrong
Jul 303 min read


Seedling swap at the TransMission Community Garden
Come along to the garden on 10 May to exchange your unwanted seedlings for varieties you’re lacking, get to know the volunteers and find...
Rebecca Armstrong
May 72 min read


Hedge planting at TransMission Community Garden
A donation of free plants and a couple of free trees from The Conservation Volunteers mean we’re now in a position to plant a hedge along...
Rebecca Armstrong
Feb 52 min read


Hedging our bets
Our most recent session in the Transmission Community Garden was very successful, with new people joining and decisions made We had a...
Rebecca Armstrong
Nov 6, 20242 min read


A change of direction at the TransMission Community Garden
After an emergency meeting to discuss matters, we at Transition Walthamstow have made some decisions regarding our community garden We’re...
Rebecca Armstrong
Oct 2, 20243 min read


Building a water catchment area at the TransMission Community Garden
With no access to water on site at the TransMission Community Garden, we need a reliable water-catchment system. Here’s what we’re...
Rebecca Armstrong
Sep 4, 20242 min read


Summer in the city
Have you been enjoying the sun? I have, but at the same time it’s made me think about our changing climate and what we can all do to...
Rebecca Armstrong
Aug 7, 20242 min read


Volunteers wanted
We’re a dedicated small group of volunteers trying to make a difference – but we need more people. How can we drum up interest?
Rebecca Armstrong
Jul 3, 20242 min read


Funding news and planting seedlings
This month we share some good news about funding and talk about what we’ve been up to in the garden, as well as reveal a new evening...
Rebecca Armstrong
Jun 5, 20242 min read


Filling raised beds at the community garden
Our main task for our monthly garden work day was to fill our raised beds – next time we hope to paint our pallet fence Our most recent...
Rebecca Armstrong
May 1, 20242 min read


Building a fence at the community garden
Litter is becoming an issue at the TransMission Community Garden, so protect the space we build a fence out of pallets One of our main...
Rebecca Armstrong
Apr 3, 20243 min read


The jar test – analysing the soil at the TransMission Community Garden
This simple test helps you understand the type of soil you’ve got in your plot and what sort of plants you can grow there. Our first work...
Rebecca Armstrong
Mar 13, 20242 min read


A work day in the garden
Our first ‘work party’ in the Transmission Community Garden consisted of soil testing and putting together some raised beds. I’m not a...
Rebecca Armstrong
Feb 22, 20243 min read


Planting bulbs at TransMission Community Garden
On Sunday 12 November we had our second event at the TransMission Community Garden: bulb planting, with a sunflower seed dyeing workshop....
Rebecca Armstrong
Nov 25, 20232 min read


Creating a sunflower meadow in Walthamstow
It takes a community to plant hundreds of sunflowers, and we needed help – but would we get any? Rebecca Armstrong has the answers It was...
Rebecca Armstrong
Jul 23, 20233 min read
Welcome to the new-look Transition Walthamstow website
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to redesign transitionwalthamstow.org. The old site was full of information, but it had been...
Rebecca Armstrong
Jul 3, 20232 min read


2000 Sunflowers
POWER STATION is Walthamstow's beating heart of community retrofit, art and energy. Building a street-by-street, school-by-school,...
aescaife
Jul 3, 20231 min read


Meeting: 12 December 2022
On a mission Our last meeting of 2022 involved a fun exercise that revealed some interesting insights into what we think Transition...
Rebecca Armstrong
Dec 28, 20224 min read


The one where Zoom doesn’t quite work out …
This month, one of our regulars was struck down by Covid so couldn’t attend, and our attempt at using Zoom wasn’t quite as successful as...
Rebecca Armstrong
Dec 2, 20222 min read
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