WELCOME! to our local     Go Green Trail

LATEST CORRECTIONS / EXPLANATIONS IN RED

(Hosts numbers 10, 17, 22, 26 & 29) 

SATURDAY 6TH JUNE 2009 (with some events on the 7th)

in AMBLESIDE, RYDAL, GRASMERE AND LANGDALE.

Click here for details of events on Sunday 7th & Monday 8th

Q: Do you want to see: a community organic garden in action? Investigate a food digester? Ask about solar panel power? Find out about imaginative waste recycling? Walk around an eco friendly farm (sheep, cattle, hens...)? Find out about ground source heat pumps? See spinning & weaving from local Herdwick wool? ... from the people who are actually doing these things?

Come and follow the Go Green Trail! Local residents, organisations, farms & businesses will be showcasing their environmentally friendly action and sustainable living, in a similar way to an 'open gardens' day.


Ambleside Market Precinct – Trail Information Hub Saturday 10.00am – 4.30 pm

  • Maps and Go Green Trail Guide – Further Information on How to get to the hosts

  • Children’s activities: meet the Juggling Jester, make a hat, badge, shaker, tetra pak weaving

  • Bus timetables & liftshare advice (for those unable to walk, cycle or use public transport)

  • Free eco friendly light bulbs and cistern water saving devices,

  • Bike Grant schemes, Demo wormery, Allotment info. etc.,

  • Flag up your green action and add to local green ‘wish list’

  • Friends of the Lake District; ‘Give the Driver a Break’ scheme.

Hosts in Italics are wheelchair accessible

Click here to see Sketch Map showing all the Hosts

AMBLESIDE HOSTS



Ambleside C.E. Primary School

Watch out for the children’s posters around Ambleside!

1

Backpackers Hostel, Old Lake Road

Small business Food Waste Digester 12-2.30 pm

2

Roger Bell, 11 High Gale

Heating & hot water from a ground source heat pump: 10 minute Tours between10-1pm, 2-6pm

3

Jane Durrant, Swallowhowe, Gale How Park (above 11 High Gale)

Jora waste composting in7- 8 weeks! Living with slugs, deer & badgers: Organic veg. terrace, greenhouse. 10–1pm, 2-4pm

4

Elder Grove Guest House, Lake Rd.

Green Award sustainable business tour.1-4pm

5

Hannalin Crafts: Old Mill

Local sheep’s wool: spinning, peg loom weaving & knitting demonstrations. 10 - 4.30 pm

6

Library

Green Trail Display & Global Warming Images: Impacts of Climate Change - Local and Global (all week)

7

Holy Trinity Church, Brathay

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SUN: 9.30 am

8

Mater Amabilis, R.C. Church

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SAT: 6.30 pm, SUN: 9.15 am

9

Methodist Church, Parish Centre

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SUN: 9.30 pm

10

National Trust

Displays at new address

Building a Strawbale House DVD, NT Responding to Climate Change Display, at University of Cumbria, Eaumont Room, Hilltop, Kirkstone Road (no longer at Airport Lounge) . 10-4pm

11

Rattle Gill Cafe

Vegetarian, home cooking. Open 10am – 4.30 pm

12

Rothay Holme Recycling Centre

Your own local recycling centre.

13

Roundhill Farm, Kirkstone Pass

Herdwicks, Jacobs, Belted Galloways, Saddlebacks, Hens & Ducks: Home Produce and Farmhouse Teas. Sorry Demonstrations have had to be cancelled - all still welcome to look round and for farmhouse teas

14

Cancelled before Programme was printed


15

Sunrise Solar, Wythburn, Millans Park

Demonstrations: Solar hot water system, PV pump system, Solar heat pipe display, Working small scale models including a wind turbine.

16

St. Mary’s Church

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SUN: 11.00am

17

University of Cumbria –

Eaumont Room, Hilltop, Kirkstone Road (no longer at Airport Lounge)

FRIDAY: Students: “Wear Green Night”.

SATURDAY: Flash Mob, Rocket Composter, etc.

See also National Trust Display and DVD at University

18

Univ. of Cumbria, Beechfield Halls

Students’ food waste digester! Open all day. Demo: 12-2pm

19

Woolly Rug Company, Stockghyll

Local Herdwick hand tufted rug making. Now open SATURDAY and SUNDAY: 10-5.30pm

20

YHA, Waterhead

Recycle, Reuse & Educate Tours all day.Fairtrade Cafe 11am-

21

Young, Dan & Helen, Amaryllis, Gale Rigg, off Old Lake Rd.

Solar heated water & home insulation. SAT: 9.30-12noon and SUN: 3-6pm



RYDAL HOSTS

22

Cote How Organic Guest House & Tea Room

Green Awards/Sustainability  Tea Room open 11-5pm Saturday & Sunday

The talk will now be on Monday at 11am (when the Tea Room will be shut)

23

Glen Rothay Hotel & Badger Bar

Tours: Recycling & reducing waste by 85%. 10 – 6pm 

Badger feeding 9 pm

24

Rydal Hall

Sustainability Tours including hydro electric scheme: 11, 1 & 3 pm. Di Standen Eco Artist. Teashop 10-5pm

25

Rydal Community Organic Garden

Community run walled garden: veg, eggs, fruit, beehives etc. Open 8-8pm. Tours: 11, 1 & 3pm (inc. children’s activity)



GRASMERE HOSTS

26

Biggs, Dr & Mrs, Fellcroft, Easedale Rd

Roof mounted solar panels, 10.30-12.30 pm, 2.00-4pm

Go up Easedale Road and turn right just before Goody Bridge.  Fellcroft is then a short distance and on the right (sketch map shows on the left)

27

Broadrayne Farm & Grasmere Hostel and Windermere Invasive Species Group

Green Business award; energy saving, recycling, composting, wormery, etc. SUN: Talk & Tour 1-3.30pm

Display: Eradicating J. knotweed and H. balsam in local area

28a

St, Mary of the Wayside RC Church

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SUN: 11.15 am

28b

St. Oswald’s Church

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SUN 11.00 am

29

Underhelm Farm, Alan/Jocelyn Riley

Dairy farming with a difference: how to reducing carbon footprint. 10-4pm. Talks on request.

Bring Wellington Boots or similar

If starting in Grasmere, go up Easedale Road and turn right just before Goody Bridge.  Underhelm Farm is on left a short distance beyond Fellcroft (see no 26) above



LANGDALE HOSTS (and Hawkshead Hill)

30

Langdale Estate (hotel, Restaurant, Pub, Timeshare, etc.)

Green Tourism tour (incl. biomass boiler). Greening an Estate Community of 600 people. SAT & SUN: Tours 11, 1 & 3pm

31

Langdale Primary School

Forest Fun & campfire for children 0-11yrs & carers 10-3pm

32

YHA Elterwater

View Recycling & wildlife info: bats, birds and insects .10-4pm

33

YHA High Close

View Recycling & wildlife info. Grounds open 10-4pm

34

Holy Trinity, Chapel Stile

Creation Praise & Care. Greening Community worship SUN 10. 00 am

35

Hawkshead Hill Baptist Church

Wildlife friendly garden and Fairtrade refreshments.

36

Scrowston, Carole & Martin, Tarn Foot Cottage, Loughrigg

Trying to go green in an old Lakeland Cottage: 11-2pm Hear about success & failures, Solar heating, insulation, wood burning


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