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Bude Community Larder Now has 2 Venues and Days.
15.6.24 — 10:35 The Bude Community Larder has now added another weekly sessions at the Berries Community Cafe on Saturdays between 1 and 2pm.   Look out for our flag which shows when we're running a session.    Everyone welcome and the food is free (donations welcome). Please come along and help us fight food waste!    
Hungry For Change
04.12.23 — 11:41   We had a great turnout for our showing of the Cornwall Climate Care film "Hungry for Change" last Friday. If you missed it, you can watch it here. Thanks to everyone who came along, Atlantic Fungi Cooperative for sponsoring the event and providing the mushroom toasts, Bude Friends of the Earth for their support and for the Co-op for providing the refreshments and continued support for the Bude community larder. We also announced the exciting news that Transition Bude has changed its name to Sustainable Bude.    
Community Larder
18.5.23 — 12:29   It makes no sense to throw away perfectly good food when it can still be used to make delicious meals and snacks. To help reduce surplus food from local businesses going to waste, Transition Bude has recently started a Community Larder in Bude.   We collect bread, pastries, fruit and vegetables, eggs, chilled food and snacks that are all perfectly good to eat, even if their Best Before date has expired.      What is a Community Larder? Community larders are open to everyone and enable us to reduce food waste by taking surplus food collected from supermarkets and giving people a chance to use it. This helps to reduce our impact on the environment and helps save money – everyone’s a winner!    When is the Community Larder open? At the moment we are open on Wednesday afternoons 2-3pm in Bude Library and the final Saturday of each month at 10.30am, at the Neetside Centre, timed to coincide with the Repair Café. We are hoping to open more frequently soon.   Does it cost ...
Gardening For Nature
01.10.22 — 15:04     ENVIRONMENT  FOOD   “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”   EVENT ONE As part of “Great Big Green Week” we ran a “Gardening for Nature” event on 1st October 2022 to encourage people to garden for nature and grow their own vegetables.   Our event comprised of expert speakers and local environmental and gardening groups to provide information and inspiration to attendees.    At the event we will ask attendees to sign up for our mailing list and also make a pledge for nature, to commit to gardening in a more nature-friendly way.   Our gardens give us an incredible opportunity to tackle some of the huge challenges we are facing - we can support our struggling wildlife, reduce our impact on the climate crisis and even reduce our food and water bills! Transition Bude in association with Bude Friends of the Earth and Cornwall Council are putting on the first of a seri...
Seedlings to Schools
15.5.21 — 15:52 We were successful in our application for a small grant from the Transition: Bounce Forward project, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund., distributed by Transition Network, to get us up and running in Spring 2021.   Our mission was to grow enough seedlings (peppers, chillies, tomatoes, strawberries, peas, beans) to give one plant to every primary school child in Bude and Stratton (nearly 1000!) plus have some to give away at Bude Artisan Market, all with the aim of getting more people into growing their own food, seeing how easy and rewarding it is.    In July 2021 Transition Bude’s Growing Club donated 830 fruit and vegetable plants to Bude and Stratton Primary Schools.   To encourage green fingers in all the primary-aged schoolchildren in Bude and Stratton, Transition Bude’s Growing Club has donated a plant to every single one of them. That’s 830 tomatoes, sweet peppers, chillies, strawberries, peas and beans, delivered to Bude Primary Academy and Stratton Primary Sc...
Growing Club Films
15.2.21 — 15:53   The gardening group are always busy on the small-holding, planting beans and peas, potting up strawberry ‘babies’ and getting ready for each new season. They produced fortnightly videos on how to start your own growing at home, whether you have a garden, patio, balcony or window-sill. More can be found on the Facebook group ‘Transition Bude growing Club’.