And as the Big Green Blog Gathering enters it’s final day, here at the Emma & Pete Show we are thrilled to be hosting the Renewable Energy Cinema once more. Today we’ve got a fascinating nature documentary about honeybees and their hives:
And if you’d rather see beautiful, furry bumblebees, then we have a short film about those as well :)
Saving the Bumblebee from Jamie-Lee Loughlin on Vimeo.
We’re back at the Big Green Blog Gathering today, hosting the renewable energy cinema. Yesterday we had a great film about one of permaculture’s heros – Sepp Holtzer – and today we have another: Emilia Hazelip.
We’re big fans of Moo.com, so any reason to purchase new Moo cards is a double celebration. These shiny new ones are from their green business card range – printed on 100% recycled paper and packed up in a recycled cardboard box. They’re to promote my new book (I’m a published author now, don’t you know!).
And we can save you a bit of money on any Moo.com purchases, because we have some discount codes. Try using DDZUWQ to get 15% off your first order if you’re a new customer, or EHRG6X for 10% of postcards.
It occurs to me that finding new friends is like panning for gold. Sometimes you come across some Fool’s Gold, which is shiny but essentially worthless. Sometimes you get tiny flecks of gold dust. Once or twice in a lifetime you come across a really big nugget. But most of the time you’re just standing up to your knees in cold water, with gravel in your shoes.
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on my Seed Swap for the Big Green Gathering. I have been contacting seed companies, stuffing home-saved seeds into home-made envelopes, spreading the word and generally trying to make sure it’s a big success. To decorate my seed swap stall (try saying that whilst drunk!) I decided to have a go at making my own bunting, which turned out to be a lot of fun. I have written it up on Instructables.com, and it has been featured on the home page! What fun :)
I was talking about this in the Emma Show last night (the live version of the Emma and Pete Show where Pete left to take a phone call and I was wittering to myself for half an hour) but since the recording didn’t take only 7 people heard me ;)
At the end of this month it looks as though I will be making my first official outing as a published author (my book is available to pre-order at Amazon, it’s so exciting :) at the Big Green Gathering, several days of music and good, green fun way out west.
The original plan was that I would head along and do a signing – but although the book is now at the printer, it’s impossible to guarantee that it will be ready in time for me to take along, so I needed a back up plan. And the back up plan is that I will be there, in the Permaculture marquee, running an Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap! Visitors to the BGG will be able to bring along their spare seeds, swap them for something else and grow something different next year.
Preparations are going well. I’ve packed home-saved seeds into home-made envelopes, and made bunting. I have received two boxes of seeds from seed companies (not the ethically dodgy big ones) who want to lend a hand, and have an offer of help from Garden Organic’s famous Heritage Seed Library as well.
The only thing I haven’t done yet is attempt to put the tent up…. I really should give that a try before I go.
And as the Big Green Blog Gathering enters it’s final day, here at the Emma & Pete Show we are thrilled to be hosting the Renewable Energy Cinema once more. Today we’ve got a fascinating nature documentary about honeybees and their hives:
And if you’d rather see beautiful, furry bumblebees, then we have a short film about those as well :)
Saving the Bumblebee from Jamie-Lee Loughlin on Vimeo.
We’re back at the Big Green Blog Gathering today, hosting the renewable energy cinema. Yesterday we had a great film about one of permaculture’s heros – Sepp Holtzer – and today we have another: Emilia Hazelip.
We’re big fans of Moo.com, so any reason to purchase new Moo cards is a double celebration. These shiny new ones are from their green business card range – printed on 100% recycled paper and packed up in a recycled cardboard box. They’re to promote my new book (I’m a published author now, don’t you know!).
And we can save you a bit of money on any Moo.com purchases, because we have some discount codes. Try using DDZUWQ to get 15% off your first order if you’re a new customer, or EHRG6X for 10% of postcards.
It occurs to me that finding new friends is like panning for gold. Sometimes you come across some Fool’s Gold, which is shiny but essentially worthless. Sometimes you get tiny flecks of gold dust. Once or twice in a lifetime you come across a really big nugget. But most of the time you’re just standing up to your knees in cold water, with gravel in your shoes.
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on my Seed Swap for the Big Green Gathering. I have been contacting seed companies, stuffing home-saved seeds into home-made envelopes, spreading the word and generally trying to make sure it’s a big success. To decorate my seed swap stall (try saying that whilst drunk!) I decided to have a go at making my own bunting, which turned out to be a lot of fun. I have written it up on Instructables.com, and it has been featured on the home page! What fun :)
I was talking about this in the Emma Show last night (the live version of the Emma and Pete Show where Pete left to take a phone call and I was wittering to myself for half an hour) but since the recording didn’t take only 7 people heard me ;)
At the end of this month it looks as though I will be making my first official outing as a published author (my book is available to pre-order at Amazon, it’s so exciting :) at the Big Green Gathering, several days of music and good, green fun way out west.
The original plan was that I would head along and do a signing – but although the book is now at the printer, it’s impossible to guarantee that it will be ready in time for me to take along, so I needed a back up plan. And the back up plan is that I will be there, in the Permaculture marquee, running an Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap! Visitors to the BGG will be able to bring along their spare seeds, swap them for something else and grow something different next year.
Preparations are going well. I’ve packed home-saved seeds into home-made envelopes, and made bunting. I have received two boxes of seeds from seed companies (not the ethically dodgy big ones) who want to lend a hand, and have an offer of help from Garden Organic’s famous Heritage Seed Library as well.
The only thing I haven’t done yet is attempt to put the tent up…. I really should give that a try before I go.
