Frogham Fair takes place on the afternoon of the Saturday of the August Bank Holiday Weekend in the fields of Springfield Farm near Frogham crossroads. Established in 1971 and organised by local volunteers, the Fair raises money for the Memorial Hall and local charities.
Traditional events include Terrier Racing, Country Crafts, …

Ringwood
Garden Share Project
Let’s Get Growing is for Ringwood residents who have underused gardens and we aim to link  them with people who would like to grow their own. The scheme can help you grow healthier fresh food, reduce  weekly shopping bills, is good for the environment and will mean new …

Pupils from five local schools and an education centre are competing to produce the “heaviest sunflower head”, grown from seeds and materials provided to them by Fairweather’s Garden Centre in Beaulieu.
Cadland, Fawley, Beaulieu, Lyndhurst, Blackfield and the Forest Education Centre are all busy planting their seeds in the hope that …

LOCAL FOOD MARKET

Local meat, fish, cheese, cakes, seasonal vegetables and much more!
Hale Village Hall, Hatchett Green, Hale, Hampshire SP6 2NE
Saturday 17th April from 9am to 12 noon
Profits to sustainable community projects.
Please walk, cycle or share lifts to reduce pressure on the car park.
For further details please call Paula or Richard …

Our UK woodland flora is wonderful, all those Bluebells, Primroses and Wood anemones. When you think about it though, our woods are rather dull in terms of variety compared to similar woodlands in N. America, Asia and mainland Europe.

The sun came out on Easter Sunday morning (April 4th 2010) so Sue and myself decided to visit a couple of local gardens in the afternoon.

The much improved National Gardens Scheme web site showed Durmast House as being the closest to home and also Apple Court not so far away either.

Fordingbridge Transition Group are discussing the possibility of setting up a group with the goal of leasing land near Fordingbridge/Ringwood for a community market garden. Our intention is to control how our food is grown, to reduce food miles and to cut out all middle men and their associated profit.

We need to know if there are enough people out there who would be interested in such a project? If there were enough people interested we could even employ a market gardener to grow the food and do a box scheme of some sort.

Forest Watch joins forces to tackle rural and wildlife crime
Sergeant Louise Hubble is the face of a new partnership project to tackle rural community issues including wildlife and environmental crime in the New Forest.
The officer is heading up Forest Watch – an initiative led by the New Forest National Park Authority, Hampshire Constabulary and partners to look at everything from fly-tipping to poaching, arson and nuisance vehicles.

Come along for practical advice on greener living and demonstrations of some of the latest technologies. See how you could save money and improve your health at the same time as helping the environment. With children’s activities, New Forest Marque catering, and stalls, talks and demonstrations on everything from renewable technologies and insulation to wildlife gardening and wood turning.

THIEVES, flytippers and poachers had better stay well away from the New Forest this summer as a new scheme to stamp out criminal behaviour begins. The Forest Watch scheme was launched yesterday with a seminar at the Lyndhurst Park Hotel, at which issues affecting various forest communities and organisations were given a through airing.