Our last Changemakers meeting focused on how we communicate climate and nature change through community events.
Street Compost Club is a new project that brings neighbours together to collectively create compost from their food waste in a fun, practical and hygienic way, which can then be used in their gardens and planters to grow more food and flowers.
Often the Sustainable South Hams compost mentors will come out to communities to share the love for compost, but last week, a group of compost enthusiasts from Dartmouth and Totnes did a tour around several of the fabulous community sites that exist in the South Hams.
Sustainable Littlehempston is a working group set up by the Parish Council to help improve biodiversity and tackle the climate crisis. Projects include: Tree planting and biodiversity in the parish, improving energy efficiency in parishioners homes, improving the walking and cycling connection to Totnes, helping parishioners grow and share food and reduce food waste.
Yealm Estuary Moor aims to improve the health & biodiversity of the River Yealm
Workshops promoting Earth Friendly values around food from the Deer Wood Trust
How Tallet Meadow Farm turned pasture land into productive orchards.