We will be at the orchard on Saturday 26th November 22 (weather permitting) from 10am for pruning and to begin work on preparing an area for vegetable growing. Everyone is welcome to come along and join in. If you have any pruning equipment to bring along then please do.
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10.10 Home Grown Hornsea - Introduction, Local Food and The Community Orchard

10.30 URC Green Apostle - The Church and the environment

10.40 Hedgehog Rescue - Saving our Wildlife

11.10 Christian Aid- The poor and the Planet

11.30 PATT - Tree planting and reforesting

11.50 ERYC Waste watchers - Waste reduction and recycling

12.10 Mayor of Hornsea - Hornsea Town Council's Environmental Policies

13.00 Green Growers - Organic food production

13.20 HACCS - Hornsea Allotments and the Community Composting S...

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At our last AGM we decided to promote an Eco summit. The environmental and social crises we face grow more acute by the day and we think it is time for the town to come together to see what we can do about it.
The United Reformed Church, which is developing its own green agenda, has Kindly agreed to host and organise a Green fair and Eco summit at the church on Saturday 10th September. There will be a full programme of speakers and stalls from local eco groups and traders. if you would like to...
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1^st November 2018 Held at Floral Hall Café

1. Present- Alan Tharrat, Paul Hanson, Glen Hemsby

2. Apologies- Suzanne Keam, John Rodgers, Donald Cowan, Heather Downs, Thom Strid

3. Approval of minutes of 2017

4. Election of Officers: Chair- Alan Tharrat, Secretary- Thom Strid, Treasurer- Paul Hanson

5. Chairman’s report

The shop unfortunately had to be closed in July as sales were not sufficient to cover costs. Plans to include a café had to be abandoned as the building was t...

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Home Grown Hornsea AGM 

Secretary’s Minutes

November 6th 2017, 4.30pm

Kelpies Wholefoods, Bank Street, Hornsea

 

Attending: Alan Tharrat, Thom Strid, Paul Hanson, Freddie Jacquin, Julie Sharp, Heather Downs, Mark Stanley, Sarah Bender

 

Agenda

 

1. Welcome by Chairman Paul Hanson

2. Apologies

3. Minutes of 2016 AGM

4. Matters arising from minutes

5. Chairman’s report

6. Treasurer’s report

7. Election of officers

8. Shop and Therapy room

9. Community Repor...

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Home Grown Hornsea AGM

 November 6^th 2017

Agenda

1.       Welcome by Chairman

2.       Apologies

3.       Minutes of 2016 AGM

4.       Matters arising from minutes

5.       Chairman’s report

6.       Treasurer’s report

7.       Election of Officers

8.       Shop and therapy room- Jobs to do. Timescales. Finances.

9.       Community Orchard

10.   Tree planting.

11.   Any other business

Minutes of 2016 AGM

Orchard

The chairman reported that the year had been a positive one i...

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It was a gloriously sunny day yesterday as we planted the 80 fruit trees we have bought with the funding from The Lions.  The site looks owned and loved now and the trees were well watered in thanks to some ingenious ideas involving a bathtub and a trailer.  All in all a very succesful day. Many thanks to all those who came to help.
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We spent a damp day planting an edible hedgerow at the end of January.  Thank you to all who turned up, it was a really good showing.  On March 11th we will be planting the big trees thank you very much to the Lions for a grant which has made this possible.  I am hopeful for some fruit next year but apparently this is quite optimistic!  Always look on the bright side.

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Wow what a lot of people turned up.  Who knew Hornsea had so many talented and interesting people?  I've had lots of discussions since then with lots of people, all providing food for thought.  We didn't quite get on to Hornsea in 2032 (I blame the organisers!) but we did get ideas and enthusiasm and such a lot of lovely food it has to be declared a success.  Fingers crossed the planting goes as well.
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We are nearly ready to launch our transition initiative on Hornsea.  We have the Town Hall booked and some local businesses have kindly offered food.  After much red tape we are hopefully also ready to begin planting a community orchard.  You wouldn't believe how much paperwork there is to plant a few trees!  For a while I was starting to feel beaten by the bureaurocracy but now it feels like we have achieved something.
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Well it's winter and what's been happening.  We had a stall with Densholme farm selling local salads at the carnival, but the grey day and seriously good competition meant it wasn't quite the sucess we had hoped for.  Good news though we have been awarded a grant from the Cooperative community fund and an edible trees pack from the woodland trust.  So we are al systems go with our plans to set up a community orchard in Hornsea.  Visit the what's on page for details of our launch event or get ...
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The Home Grown Hornsea group have been busy.  We've had stalls at the URC garden fair and the food festival at Densholme Farm.  We served up herb omelettes and green smoothies and ended up talking to lots of people about our aims.  We will also be represented at the Carnival in Hornsea.
As a group we also had an inspirational visit to Todmorden and were shown round the various projects undertaken by Incredible Edibles there.
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Hopefully today will be the day this site gets published.  We need to start getting publicity and have flyers and posters ready to go that just need the web address adding.  This is all very new to me though.  I know I will still be able to edit the site once I publish so I may just have to go for it.
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Having met a couple of times we have decided to start Hornsea's transition with food.  Our aim is to get Hornsea growing as much of it's food as we can.  It feels really good to have some positive goals. 
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