Transition Together News Today

What is clear to me is that to be ‘just’ we need to be acting alongside people and with awareness of our connection to all others, human and otherwise. Justice is lost when we lose sight of the bigger picture.

The benefits of growing food together should be accessible to everyone, believes Transition Town Dorchester. And this week their community farm launches a new partnership with another local charity to make that real for more people in their town.

Clevedons inaugural Green Shift Festival is scheduled for April 20 & 21 at the Curzon Cinema & Arts.

What if… the Transition movement could play a part in putting justice at the heart of the ‘transition’ we’re working towards, in our communities and beyond?

I asked Cara what the group’s shift to a focus on young people had brought to the group. She said: “It helped us to view every aspect of the town from a young person’s perspective. Taking an approach focused on integrating their needs opened up many new doors and generated more interest in what we do.

Last month, the River Exe came alive with song, night swimming, stories and a wild salmon run for the first Festival of the River Exe.

It was such a delight to connect with Transitioners old and new, from far and wide, and to visit projects on the ground.

Located at the mouth of the River Exe, and plonked between a car park and the local rugby club, this public convenience is the unlikely site for an inspired piece of community activism.

Recent years have seen rising interest in community-scale grain growing. Part food security experiments, part community art projects, part research initiatives that could just turn out to be vital to our food future.

Transition Southampton received Bounce Forward seed funding for their Growing Places project, supporting their work in three very different neighbourhoods of the city