INDOOR SHELTER FOR LITTLE CAT CAFÉ
 
If you would like an indoor shelter for the café in Myatt’s, please come along to the café on Monday at 1pm and give us your support.
 
We have applied to the Western Riverside Environmental Fund for money to build a new shelter for the café – something requested by a large number of people in our recent survey.

No firm plans for the shelter exist at the moment but the principles are that it would be “demountable” (ie could be taken apart easily) and built in the corner of the wildlife area next to the café. Its position would mean that it would also act as an observatory for the wildlife area.
 
Any heating for the shelter would be as sustainable as possible and could come from a wood burning oven (also used to cook for the café). It would be designed so local people can help build it over a weekend, and with sensitivity to its beautiful setting.
 
The funder will want to know that this is something local people do want, and so your support will be very welcome.
 
THANK YOU TO SAXA AND JOSH
 
We are inviting local people to come along and say a big thank you to Saxa and Josh for all their hard work in the café over the past two years.
 
The small party will take place outside the café from 3pm to 5pm on 31st March and will include free cake for all comers.
 
If anyone would like to contribute to their leaving gifts (including ideas!) please drop off donations at the Old Depot (next to the greenhouse). If Rebecca, Kasia or Victoria are in, please leave donations with them, or they can be dropped into the letter box on the side of the depot.
 
We welcome donations of cake for the party, and also would be grateful if people could volunteer to cover staffing the café for those hours.
 
OPEN DAY AT GREENHOUSE AND FREE LUNCH
 
Join us in the greenhouse for a gardening session and free lunch during our open greenhouse day on 1st April 2012.
 
We’ll be clearing and planting at the greenhouse from 11.30am to 2pm, with a free lunch provided by our Food Heroes programme at 1pm. If anyone would like to help cook, please turn up at 11am.
 
Support for gardening activities will be provided by Streetscape, who train apprentices for horticultural work, and are currently based at the park.
 
There will also be a plant sale from 11.30am so come along and buy reasonably priced vegetable plants that you can grow at home.
 

FOOD SESSIONS AT THE PARK:
 
FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB
 
Parents and under-fives children are invited to cook and eat together at our family cook and eat breakfast club every Friday from 9am to10.30am in the Mulberry Centre.
 
RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB
 
All retired people are invited to enjoy a freshly cooked lunch every Friday at the depot meeting room from noon to 2pm. Vegetables and fruit growing in the greenhouse will be used whenever possible in the meals that are prepared.
 
FOOD HEROES
 
Everyone is invited to come along on Saturday 24th March and learn how to make pies during our Food Heroes session, which will run in the depot meeting room from 10.30am to 1pm.
 
Our Food Heroes programme means we employ local people to teach other local people about the food they know and love. Everyone cooks together and eats the food afterwards.
 
The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme and are free to all participants. 

Help us get ready for this year’s planting and enjoy a free lunch with other gardeners during our first open greenhouse day of the year on 5th February 2012.

We’ll be clearing and planting at the greenhouse from 11.30am to 2pm, with a free lunch provided by our Food Heroes programme at 1pm. If anyone would like to help prepare the food, please turn up at 11am and cook alongside Myatt’s Fields Park Project chair, Marjorie.

Support for gardening activities will be provided by Streetscape, who train apprentices for horticultural work, and are currently based at the park.

There will also be a plant sale from 11.30am so come along and buy reasonably priced vegetable plants that you can grow at home.

 

Here is a selection of our various on-going activities and news of meetings where you can get involved in the planning of future activities;-

(you can always check our calendar for the latest program schedule)

FOOD SESSIONS AT THE PARK:

 FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB

Parents and under-fives children are invited to cook and eat together at our family cook and eat breakfast club every Friday at 9am in the Mulberry Centre.

RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB LAUNCH THIS WEEK

Everyone is invited to enjoy a freshly cooked lunch at our retired people's lunch club which will be held every Friday at the depot meeting room from noon to 2pm.

Vegetables and fruit growing in the greenhouse will be used whenever possible in the meals that are prepared.

FOOD HEROES

Everyone is invited to come along and help prepare Polish food on Saturday 22nd October during our Food Heroes session, which will run in the depot meeting room from 10.30am to 1pm. We will also be focussing on preventing food waste during this session.

Our Food Heroes programme means we employ local people to teach other local people about the food they know and love.

The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme.

HELP US PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR

 

Help us plan the future of the café, food projects, gardening in the greenhouse and events at meetings to be held in the next couple of weeks:

Monday 31st October: Events committee meeting 6.30pm onwards in the depot meeting room

Wednesday 2nd November: Growing and greenhouse project meeting 6.30pm onwards in the depot meeting room

These groups are led by members of Myatt’s Fields Park Project, and everyone is welcome to attend and give us your ideas.

 

YOGA IN THE PARK

Yoga sessions are held from 1pm to 2pm on Wednesdays, and from 10.30am to 11.30am on Saturdays in the park’s quiet garden. They cost £5 a session.

FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB

Parents and under-fives children are invited to cook and eat together at our family cook and eat breakfast club every Friday at 9am in the Mulberry Centre.

RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB LAUNCH THIS WEEK

Everyone is invited to enjoy a freshly cooked lunch at our retired people's lunch club which will be held every Friday at the depot meeting room from noon to 2pm.

Vegetables and fruit growing in the greenhouse will be used whenever possible in the meals that are prepared.

FOOD HEROES

Everyone is invited to come along and help prepare a Spanish paella on Saturday during our Food Heroes session, which will run in the depot meeting room from 10.30am to 1pm.

Our Food Heroes programme means we employ local people to teach other local people about the food they know and love.

The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme.

Help us plan the future of the café, food projects, gardening in the greenhouse and events at three meetings to be held in the next couple of weeks:

Thursday 20th October: Food group meeting in the depot meeting room

Monday 31st October: Events committee meeting

Wednesday 2nd November: Growing and greenhouse project meeting

These groups are led by members of Myatt’s Fields Park Project, and everyone is welcome to attend and give us your ideas.

FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB

Parents and under-fives children are invited to cook and eat together at our family cook and eat breakfast club every Friday at 9am in the Mulberry Centre.

RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB LAUNCH THIS WEEK

Everyone is invited to enjoy a freshly cooked lunch at our retired people's lunch club which will be held every Friday at the depot meeting room from noon to 2pm.

Vegetables and fruit growing in the greenhouse will be used whenever possible in the meals that are prepared.

FOOD HEROES

Everyone is invited to come along and help prepare a vegetarian Mediterranean meal on Saturday during our second Food Heroes session, which will run in the depot meeting room from 10.30am to 1pm.

Our Food Heroes programme means we employ local people to teach other local people about the food they know and love.

The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme.

We will be bottling tomatoes from the greenhouse and juicing apples, pears and plums harvested around the park during a session in the depot kitchen from 2pm on 24th August 2011.

Dozens of tomatoes are ripening at the greenhouse and we will be learning techniques for preserving them so they can be used during the winter months.

The London Orchard Project, which helped us gather fruit from gardens around the park last Saturday, will come along to juice and bottle fruit during the session too.

Everyone and all ages are welcome to take part, learn new skills and enjoy freshly squeezed juice.

On 30th July Myatt’s Fields Park volunteers and London Orchard Project picked apples and plums from one of local privet gardens and figs and mulberries from the park. Collected fruits will be used for cooking during our Harvest Festival on September 18th. Yummy!
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