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Don't have a garden? Join in light gardening-type tasks to help Nature at the Railway Fields Nature Reserve. It's a beautiful place with woodland, meadow and pond just off Green Lanes near the Arena Shopping Centre (W5 goes there). The gate of the Nature Reserve is opposite Harringay Green Lanes Station. Guidance, tools, & tea & biscuits provided. Come for all or part of the time. Meet at the Education Cabin.10 - 12.30 Tasks to help Nature eg clearing unwanted vegetation12.30-1pm Lunch…See More

Evening of short films highlighting current Crouch End community projects, including Urban Harvest, Meadow Orchard and Green on the Screen.Food-growing, eco-building, celebrating,foraging,raised bed making, grafting techniques, dark walk, apple day,The evening includs Santa’s Sustainable Sack. If possible, please bring a wrapped ‘no longer needed’ recycled gift to swapAll proceeds and surplus gifts go to the Haringey Churches Winter Night Shelter. £3 suggested donation on door.See More

The Meadow is an extraordinarily beautiful, large piece of land at the back of the Hornsey Neighbourhood Health Centre on Park Road, Crouch End.  The local Meadow Orchard Project community group is developing it as an organic garden with fruit trees & wildlife care. A straw and cob eco-hut is being built.  Come and see. Tour 1pm, light lunch provided 1.30, followed by AGM to vote in new committee.See More

The film Economics of Happiness is about 'going local'  to repair our fractured world: our ecosytems, our societies and our selves. Requested donation of £3 on the door.Delicious vegetarian meals for sale Food Orders taken up to 7.40pm. Bar open. Film starts 8pm. Discussion afterwards. .The film series Green on the Screen is run monthly at Moors Bar by a group of local volunteers.See More

Film with food before and discussion after.This  month’s film is TRANSITION – the MovieFrom oil dependence to local resilienceTRANSITION is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, setting about rebuilding local economies & communities.Meals for sale 7-7.45pm & bar.Film 8pmEntry: suggested donation of £3See More

CROUCH END IN SHORTSShort films about local community initiatives in 2011. Unmissable for anyone wanting to know what's going on locally! Bar open.    Food for sale 7pm, last food orders 7.45pm.Films start 8pm Suggested donation on door in aid of local Winter Shelter Project.See More

Celebrating 1st birthday of Friends of Railway Fields. All welcome.11-1.30pm  (OPTIONAL) Get your hands dirty with some practical work around the reserve!(suitable for all ages and abilities)1.30-2pm Lunch2-3pm Vote in our new committee and toast a fantastic year for Railway Fields with drinks and nibbles!   See More

This month's film is called GASLANDS. Our present system is addicted to fossil fuels but we are running out fast. As a result the world is turning to more and more extreme measures. In the UK a new method of Shale Gas extraction called hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is being trialled in Blackpool. Fracking has already become wide-spread in the US where it is destroying the environment and making people’s lives a misery in many places.It has been banned in New York, New Jersey, Quebec,…See More

I refer to the end of the World Cafe.I am sad, are you? We should sing Portuguese fados outside, it was the first place to sell Portuguese custard pies, as far as I know, in the area.It was just unbelievable how little it changed between 1992 when I came to live here, and now.Of course it was a huge celebrity spot place and used by all sorts of well-knowns but I was never into that much. Though people sometimes say I look like Annie Lennox so perhaps it was me they saw.As it happens there is a…See More

Learn how to SCYTHE, or have a refresher in scything for those who have done it before. FREE.. Please book asap by email to mary6104@hotmail.com People who learned scything at the Meadow Orchard Project last year loved it and said it was a meditative and very enjoyable exercise. The reason for doing it is to preserve the grasslands habitat at the meadow. Half of the meadow needs to be scythed.  It is not a large area, but every bit of grass land is…See More