I want to share some of my blogs with you about the Maryburgh Community Woodland. I thought a good place to start would be to tell you a bit about how the community bought the local woodland. Then over the next few days I'll be looking at some of the plants and fungi that I've found in the woodland.

https://www.alternativeperspectives.scot/blogs/community-woodland-project/a-new-dawn/

#CommunityWoodland #nature #environment #CommunityOwned

I want to share some of my blogs with you about the Maryburgh Community Woodland. I thought a good place to start would be to tell you a bit about how the community bought the local woodland. Then over the next few days I'll be looking at some of the plants and fungi that I've found in the woodland.

https://www.alternativeperspectives.scot/blogs/community-woodland-project/a-new-dawn/

#CommunityWoodland #nature #environment #CommunityOwned

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. I was quite surprised to see fungi appearing all throughout the spring and summer as I always associate fungi with autumn. This is the fourth video of fungi I have managed to capture .... so far!

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #fungi #fungus #nature #environment #biodiversity

@RebeccaBredin @JEmphatically @staidwinnow

If you're saying the general public should stop relying on #centralized, #private walled-garden #services and instead use #open, #federated #protocols and #services operated in a community-owned-and-operated way, then I am 10^6 percent behind you.

How you translate that into getting your friends off #Twitter or your grandparents off #Facebook is an entirely different problem, which may not be soluble.

#WalledGarden #CommunityOwned

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. I was quite surprised to see fungi appearing all throughout the spring and summer as I always associate fungi with autumn. This is the third video of fungi I have managed to capture .... so far!

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #fungi #fungus #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. I was quite surprised to see fungi appearing all throughout the spring and summer as I always associate fungi with autumn. This is the second video of fungi I have managed to capture .... so far!

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #fungi #fungus #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. I was quite surprised to see fungi appearing all throughout the spring and summer as I always associate fungi with autumn. This is the first video of fungi I have managed to capture .... so far!

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #fungi #fungus #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. For the flower videos I've split them into plant families. This video contains the families from: Rush to Wood Sorrel.

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #flowers #plants #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. For the flower videos I've split them into plant families. This video contains the families from: Plantain to Rose.

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #flowers #plants #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. For the flower videos I've split them into plant families. This video contains the families from: Honeysuckle to Periwinkle.

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #flowers #plants #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. For the flower videos I've split them into plant families. This video contains the families from: Daisy to Holly.

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #flowers #plants #nature #environment #biodiversity

I'd thought I'd pull some of the photos I've taken over the last few months into a series of videos. For the flower videos I've split them into plant families. This video contains the families from: Bedstraw to Daffodil.

#CommunityOwned #CommunityInvolvement #MaryburghCommunityWoodland #flowers #plants #nature #environment #biodiversity

Please do as much as you can to promote #CoopFortnight in the UK - two weeks celebrating all the various different forms of #Cooperative - #WorkersCoops, #ConsumerCoops and the rapidly expanding Community Benefit Societies, especially #communityowned #RenewableEnergy companies

https://www.uk.coop/resources/co-op-fortnight-2023-assets

When I wrote this blog a few months ago I had no idea what I was taking on - and just how much there is in the woodland. It has been a real joy to do. Over the next few weeks I'll share some of the photos I've taken in the woodland.

https://www.alternativeperspectives.scot/blogs/community-woodland-project/a-new-dawn/

#CommunityWoodland #PhotographyProject #nature #biodiversity #CommunityOwned #environment #photography

“We never planned it to be this big! We just wanted to grow some cabbages and bring some children down to do some bushcraft and bring the community together..."

It started with just four volunteers from a tiny Transition group and an idea to take over a disused, publicly owned farm for the community.

Now Greenslate Farm is home to a care farm, drug and alcohol recovery service, dozens of rescued animals, a strawbale cafe, farm shop, forest schools, nature rangers, a community project incubator and so much more...

We cannot wait to see it for ourselves - and you can too - at our North West Regional gathering 10-11 June. Transitioners and everyone working for community-led change in the North West welcome! Book now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/625220470257

Read the full Greenslate story here: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/the-transition-care-farm-with-room-for-all/

#farm #Permaculture #Transitiontowns #carefarm #communityowned #climateaction #growyourown #northwestEngland #Wigan #Liverpool #Manchester #Wirral #Mersey

There hasn’t been any grocers in this town of 28,000 people for 15 years. Now a group of locals wants to change that by opening a community-owned greengrocers.

Working with local growers and food producers, it will create a permanent outlet where people can buy local food. Veg will be loose and they’ll stock local and heritage varieties.

Chris Dobbs is one of the suppliers they've lined up: “Over the years we’ve lost the connection between our local farms and our local households, but Carrick Greengrocers is going to tie those back together and get fresh food from farms into people’s homes. Being so close, I can get vegetables off the farm and into the grocers in 10 minutes.”

The project is giving people a chance to become co-owners and raising funds to open the business by June with community shares. If successful, it would be the first community-owned business in Carrickfergus, and the first community-owned greengrocers in Northern Ireland.

Find out more about their story here: https://carrickgreengrocers.org/ and watch their sweet video here: https://vimeo.com/822473545

#localfood #slowfood #climateaction #community #cooperative #communityowned #neweconomy #towncentre #northernireland #goodnews #growyourown

What if a business "going public" (#IPO) meant being converted into a cooperative? The #founder gets their cash payout for building something of value to the community by actually *selling* it to the community? Power to the people!

I want to see laws passed that help promote and incentivize this option.

#Cooperatives reduce:
* #Inequality
* #EconomicInstability
* #PerverseIncentives
* #ConflictsOfInterest

The #profit made by a cooperative goes back into the #community, and their #leadership decisions are made by the community, because they are #CommunityOwned.

That means they'll listen if you say #climate matters. They'll care if you want to look out for the #disadvantaged in your community. They won't try to rake you over the coals with #PriceGouging. They won't try to trick you with #FalseAdvertizing. They won't try to manipulate you into #overspending or #ImpulseBuys. Because "they" are YOU.

First visit to #IsleOfUlva for 4 years. Great to see a #communityowned #island thriving. Excellent #coffee and #Cake at #TheBoathouse and even a tiny #reservoir to keep @MamieMartinFund happy :-)

The report highlights the many benefits of #NetEnergy metering--for advancing #CommunityOwned #EnergySystems, energy #democracy, and a #justice-centered energy model. It also busts open the #utilities' and #CPUC's cost-shift myth.

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/energy-justice/pdfs/Rooftop-Solar-Justice-Report-March-2023.pdf

Spent the day at Bannockburn House. Wow, what stories it has to tell! Looking forward to doing a weekend of #18thcentury costumed interpretation there in the spring - about the never-ending cycles of laundry, mending and ironing. #DressHistory #WomensHistory #PublicHistory #ScottishHistory #Jacobite #History #Costume #Interpretation #CommunityOwned