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March 2007 - Vol 1, Issue 9
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Dear Elaine,


This summer's crop of figs

A very warm welcome to this edition.
We have a very timely article for you on climate change, and a suggestion to get started in earnest with your personal spring cleaning. Whether it’s quite a small but significant change like more raw green things in the day, or finding some tasty dehydrator crackers instead of bread, the longer days and new green shoots are an inspiration to start. Maybe you need a juicer but haven’t taken the plunge yet. Maybe the juicer spends too much time in the cupboard! New Year Resolutions are a while back, Chinese New Year of the Boar is under way. What are you waiting for?

- Elaine Bruce

You saw the photos of work in progress here at the Centre, and quite a lot of dust and inevitable disruption! All accomplished with good humour and flexibility by our experienced builders, scaffolders, double glazing experts and painter. In this sort of house there is always something to update or repair most years, so they have all worked here several times and are now old friends. Damien’s brother, our talented young joiner, has deserted us though, and has gone to seek his fortune in New Zealand. We wish him luck. The mate he recommended in his place answered his phone from Carcassonne, and won’t be back for several months. I look out at the rain and think I may be missing a trick here.

Well it is all now done, and this old house is a lot more energy efficient as well as warmer for both you and us in the colder times, though how cold they may be and for how long is a disturbingly open question just now.

The local glass company fitted several more double glazed windows. One in the big Living foods Kitchen, making it warmer when the wind sweeps across the river valley, and another in the shower room which guests use when staying for the weekend courses. Andrew (our maintenance wizard) transformed the loft with a lot more insulation (and helped to tidy it as well) It’s good Feng Shui to have an orderly roof space, so I’m hoping for a reflection in other departments! You saw the pics of the new wood burner for the classroom, we’ve got the hang of running it now and it’s very efficient as well as cosy. I’d love a heat exchange system, but it might be a bit too complicated for a four storey Victorian. We’ll see.

Just a reminder. For years we all “chewed” all our juices, especially wheatgrass juice, so as to digest it more efficiently. Problem is that wheatgrass is just too good at attracting metals, so if you have any amalgam fillings, it may encourage the mercury etc to be released and then go into your bloodstream.

So if you have any doubt about your fillings, we suggest you use a straw, it is quite safe that way.
Climate Change

I’m delighted to welcome Maddy Harland. As Co Founder with her husband Tim, and Editor of the well known Permaculture Magazine, she has made a great contribution to knowledge of the huge issues of climate change down to the practice and principles of sustainable living.

I wrote for her on indoor gardening many years ago and was proud to have the Living Foods kitchen featured in glorious colour (mostly green of course!) on the front cover. Now here they are with their beautiful healthy daughters on the front cover of the current issue, at a time when more and more people need the information, practical tips and know how which you can always find in the mag.

Today Maddy writes on " The challenge of climate change and how to create a positive response"
Fresh from the late winter garden, using the last of the winter kale.
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One reader wrote to say she is collecting the recipes by copying them into Word documents. You are most welcome to do this, but if you have a problem copying them, as she did, let us know and we’ll try to help.
The pink berried sorbus, which glows a gentle welcome to anyone passing the front gate.
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Elaine Bruce
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