Spring Sowing Event (topic 2)

[Jon Sessions]

I'll knock together a planting calendar for easy to grow veggies, and accompany it with some "seasonal veg" recipes for harvest times so people can plan to eat what they grow

[GeoffBenn]

Marie has been working hard on this, and is producing a flyer. The basic content is as follows, but we need some artistic graphics. Anyone keen to have a go?

Transition Town Stafford Presents..........
THE SPRING SOWING EVENT
Sunday 28th March 2010
TTS’s Spring Sowing Event on Sunday 28th March is the first
festival of its type in the town. We invite you to come to the
Market Square and try your hand at sowing seeds and start
to think what you can grow in whatever space you have, be it
the garden, allotment, patio, balcony or windowsill.
On the day there will be a variety of activities to encourage
and enthuse you to start sowing and growing. There will also
be information on chicken rearing, bee-keeping and other life
style ideas such as composting, water-saving, cycling, energy-
saving. There will be advice and gardening tips from a host of
experienced gardeners, ‘Gardener’s Question Time’, a seed
swap, grow in what you throw, wildlife gardening ideas,
activities for children, food and entertainments, a raffle, and
much, much more.
So come along, have a chat, share your experience, have a
go, join in – a great day for all the family.
Market Square Stafford 11-4pm FREE

More information:
http://www.transitiontownstafford.org.uk

The web-site now has the event on the front page, and a new dedicated page. That can all grow (pun?), I'll have a go over the weekend.

[Ian]

For the Spring Sowing Event I am going to order a load of organic seeds from http://www.tamarorganics.co.uk

Can I suggest as a bit of a fundraiser that anyone thinking of buying seeds, checks out the web site and email your order to me (owen8087@btinternet.com) and I will order them up with the stock for the Spring Fair.

Last orders 10th March

Cheers
Ian

[GeoffBenn]

As advertised on the main Spring Sowing event web page, there are now flyers and posters which we need to distribute widely very soon I suggest that we allow a couple of days for comments before distributing this poster as widely as possible. Any comments?

We can then use all forms of distribution, and all ideas are welcome, some were discussed at the latest Action Group meeting. When distributing please include the web site so that people can download again if necessary: http://transitiontownstafford.org.uk

There are two documents, each available in two formats:

* An A4 poster.

* An A4 sheet which contains 2 A5 flyers.

Why two formats?

* Word documents are for those who have Word, the main advantage being that these print better. Feel free to email them, but please remember that not everyone has Microsoft Word.

* PDFs which are readable by anyone who has the free PDF reader such as Adobe or Foxit.

It's probably best to send all 4 documents, hence why I've also provided them as a zip file, though some people may not know what to do with it....so perhaps this should not be available?

We'll do mass emails in a couple of days, anyone care to draft the text?

[GeoffBenn]

You're doing a great job Marie! 6 marquees!, thanks SBC

[GeoffBenn]

Updated poster and flyer uploaded, thanks Beryl

See the Spring Sowing event web page.

[GeoffBenn]

Well that was a flurry of activity regarding poster comments :
- centring web site, thanks Mel.
- yellow highlighting, thanks Netta, I've taken that to another level with a bit of shadowing to help with the text over the soil.
- sponsors added and "gutter for the flyer slightly larger so that the borders are symmetrical when cut", thanks Beryl
- bee keeping removed, thanks Marie.
- JPEG? by Diana: I've sent the JPEGs so you could make a web page with it as the background?
- I've updated both the poster and flyer to match, uploaded them onto the web site.
- totally new poster, thanks Sebastian, hopefully you can see what we've all come up with and perhaps improve yours?.
- best if we circulate DOC files rather than DOCX since more people can read them...

[Suzanne]

Neill Pennington and Dave Mormon have agreed to provide some acoustic entertainment on the day. Dave is also going to publicise it in the Stoke University and will make sure the posters get put out there. He is also hoping to have a promotion stall for their Sustainability course and will contact Marie about both

[GeoffBenn]

I've split this long topic because it has been suggested that people might not see the second page of replies. This is the new topic, which is a continuation of the original which is here and which is now locked.

[GeoffBenn]

Thanks to Marie and Sebastian for a great new poster: SpringSowing-poster2.pdf.

Please help us by distributing the following flyers and posters, by email or by putting them up somewhere:
http://transitiontownstafford.org.uk/TT ... ingSowing/