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Plastic Free Worthing are holding an Open Meeting via Zoom on Sunday 28th February at 7pm. This is their first meeting for a while, so lots to discuss and get involved in!

“Where would we be without flowers and trees, they lift the soul.” Dorothy. We agree whole-heartedly with Dorothy, but it is February and it can seem a bit bleak and bare outside. Certainly our ‘farm’ flowers are nowhere in sight, especially because we don’t use any additional heat in the polytunnel to force them into blooming this early.

Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 22nd Feb to 7th March. The Fairtrade Foundation need your help to put farmers’  voices at the heart of tackling the climate crisis and share the reality of their struggles.

Green Tides has secured National Lottery funding to help develop a website (now under development) which will showcase all the local wonderful wildflower sites. The aim is to encourage more and more people to get out there and enjoy our local greenspaces and even have a go at growing some wildflowers themselves!

Things have slowed down considerably in our community gardens during January, principally due to lockdown and not being quite sure what was permitted, so we decided to go with 1:1's working to all the usual guidelines.

There are plans to expand the Rampion Wind Farm as part of the Government's targets to quadruple the UK’s offshore wind capacity by the end of the decade.