We will be having another Permablitz on Constable Community Allotment, on Sat 18 June from 11 am onwards. 

Last month’s Permablitz was very well attended, lots got done and people enjoyed themselves. There is still plenty to do, both in the community growing area and in the mini-orchard on the main field. Please come and help us if you can and take advantage of the benefits of the fresh air and exercise on offer.  Please bring a packed lunch and we will provide hot drinks. Any questions please give me a ring on 07816 141169

Some information about an upcoming project, broadly around themes of Land and Community in Hull.

COMING SOON….11th June-10th July 2022 :

THIS PLACE presents a month of events and workshops to start a conversation about ‘this place’ (being Hull and the surrounding area), to begin to get to know it, warts and all – our unknown/unloved wild spaces, our collective traumas, our history, our mud, rivers, people, and ourselves. How does class, race, gender, power and inequality fit into/effect all that? How can we recconect and become a resillient and caring people in this place and time in history?

We hope that some longer lasting projects/groups will come out of it. The Launch Party is on Sat 11th June,  6pm – late at Ground HU3 1YE, with live music, poems, exhibition and more…  For the timetable of events go to

Hull Vegan Festival 

On Sat 21 May we will be having a Permablitz on Constable Community Allotment, from 11 am onwards.  Please note the date has been changed from 14 to 21 May.

Together We Can is a ten-day online summit to celebrate and super-charge the power of community-led change. It includes 25+ sessions carefully crafted to nurture, build & inspire you & your Transition group and offers the chance to connect, replenish and recharge your activism.  There will be talks, interactive workshops and speakers on a breadth of issues from vertical growing to healing trauma, imaginative resistance to doughnut economics, rewilding to creating a thriving social economy.

Who’s it for?
Together We Can is designed with and for UK-based Transition Groups by Transition Together, which supports the movement across Britain to develop and grow.  The Summit is free, online and open to all involved in Transition groups and interested in our approach to community-led change.

Participants don’t need to attend all sessions – check out the varied programme here:  https://transitiontogether.org.uk/events/summit2022/

How can people join in? 

It is not necessary to attend the whole summit, but signing up for a Summit ticket gives you access to everything on offer and avoids having to sign up for each individual session. With a Summit ticket, you’ll also get regular updates about new sessions and speakers, and be invited to join Vive, an new online space for Transitioners to connect, share and work together. A bit like an online hive!

The Summit is free, though you can donate if you find value in the programme, and any funds raised will help us make our work more inclusive. Book a ticket here: http://together-we-can.eventbrite.co.uk

The Summit is open to all, so there’s no problem sharing it on your group facebook or twitter or with your wider mailing list.

Key links: 

Summit webpage: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/events/summit2022/

Tickets: http://together-we-can.eventbrite.co.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TransitionTog

On Twitter: @TransitionTog hashtags #TogetherWeCan and #NurtureBuildInspire

More info at     https://www.stopecocide.earth/ecocide-week-2022

The Yorkshire Circular Economy Festival will take place from 15 March until 19 March 2022, online and free.

The festival is organised by the Centre for Facilitation on behalf of the Yorkshire Circular Lab with the aim of helping civic and voluntary initiatives that are already part of a circular economy in Yorkshire, from libraries of stuff to food banks, repair cafes, clothes upcycling and much more. More than 400 of such initiatives have been identified in Yorkshire so far.

Register for the Yorkshire Circular Economy Festival via Eventbrite. You are welcome to register even if you can only make a part of the event.

Join Hull Butterfly City’s Plant Share and Seed Swap 

Hull Butterfly City aims to plant Buckthorn saplings across the city, which will attract female Brimstone butterflies from as far as two miles. As the only requirement for the Brimstone is Buckthorn, this makes it an ideal urban butterfly, and the idea is to establish a population of Brimstone butterflies in the city.

A couple of events were planned for February, but the first was on the 20th and had to be scaled down owing to the weather. The main event will now be

Saturday 26th February 12 noon til 2.00pm at Constable Street Community Allotment, Constable Street, Hull HU3 3DF

To encourage people to grow butterfly and insect friendly plants,  there will be FREE Buckthorn saplings for people to take home and grow, and to plant out on the community site.

There are loads of plants and seeds left over from earlier, scaled-back event, so please come along and see what there is, take any away with you, and bring some seeds to swap if you have any.  There will be a range of house plants, shrubs and seeds so come along even if you don’t have anything to share, we would love to help you to get growing!

Here is a link to the latest  Newsletter from Hull Food Partnership, packed with information e.g tips about growing food, activities and events both local and online, consultations and campaigns, offers, rescources and funding opportunities.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ea59a432a5&view=lg&permmsgid=msg-f:1721209982711679302

Pickering Road Community Orchard will be holding its annual Wassail event on Sun 9 Jan 2022, starting prompt at 12 midday.  The venue is  Pickering Road Community Orchard, Cranberry Way, Pickering Road, Hull, HU4 7AQ

More info about the orchard at http://www.hullorchard.co.uk/, which has this bit of info about wassailing:

‘Wassailing’ is a ritual held around the 12th night, an ancient custom of visiting orchards, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. The word wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon greeting Wæs þu hæl, meaning “be thou hale”—i.e., “be in good health”. The Lambswool (mulled cider) is given to the roots of the trees and pieces of toast dipped in cider are stuck on branches for the Robins, who are the guardians of the orchard.