Category: Food
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True Food Bakery
A group of True Food members are trying to come up with a plan to set up a Real Bread bakery (no artificial additives) in Reading as part of True Food. They have put together a survey to gather info about what people would want from a bakery. You can take the survey by following…
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One orchard planted (Prospect Park), one to go (Waterloo Meadows)
TTR kicked off its project to plant Community Orchards in public spaces around Reading on Saturday, by planting 40 trees near the mansion house in Prospect Park. We had a beautiful sunny day for it, and the turnout was very good. Oonagh from TCV covered us in the warm glow of her insurance and, after…
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TTReading’s Community Orchard Project
It’s been an encouraging couple of weeks for TTR’s dreams of setting up community orchards around the town. While I don’t want to take anything for granted, and our application is still in progress, we recently got agreement in principle to fund a project that will see us plant 5 community orchards in public parks…
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Nut Tree Planting, Apple Press and building momentum
It’s taken a little while to get around to writing this post, but I thought we should have something on the site to say that the first phase of the Palmer Park edible planting took place on Saturday 3rd March with a number of Sweet Chestnut and Walnut trees beingplanted around the stadium by TTR…
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Press Release: Palmer Park goes nuts for local food
Transition Town Reading begins community food gardening project with Nut Tree planting in Palmer Park. Transition Town Reading, a local community group exploring life after cheap oil, has begun a program of edible planting projects in public spaces around Reading with a nut tree planting in Palmer Park. The planting took place on Saturday 3rd…
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Palmer Park Community Orchard
I’m excited. For a while, we’d been talking about the idea of planting fruit and nut trees on public land around Reading. In many ways, it seemed like the perfect Transition project: a chance to sequester a little carbon, while providing free, healthy, local, organic food for local residents, creating a pleasant atmosphere and promoting…
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Reading Abundance
Have you ever noticed trees hanging with delicious looking fruit, only to see it a couple of weeks later lying unpicked and wasted on the ground? Would you like to do something about it?
Transition Town Reading 