Come to the Green Café
Coffee, cake and conversation
Third Tuesday in the month
Natural beekeeping is….
- good for the bees
- good for the birds
- good for our flowers, our fruit, our vegetables, our crops and
- good for us!
Come and find out why from local beekeepers
Tuesday 18th November
Looking Well, King Street, High Bentham
www.greenbentham.org.uk 015242 63399
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During August and September, BEST members will once again be running Crop Swap Stalls, where you can swap your surplus home produce for something else, or if you haven’t anything to swap and simply want to take home some really fresh Bentham local food, you can make a donation to the Practical Action charity, to support a project using solar power to pump water in arid areas of East Africa. Click here for info about the project.
- Free-range eggs
- Home baking
The stall will be on the Main Street near the Post Office, from 9.30 till 11.30 on the following Saturday mornings: 9th and 23rd August, and 6th and 20th September.
Here’s another site you might be interested in:
Don’t forget to look at our meetings & events page for details of our next Green Cafe. This will be about a local currency “The Realm Exchange”
If you have a local business we are particularly keen to welcome you so you can find out what it’s all about. Plus there is CAKE!!!
This is a comment from Peter Lennard - Don't be shy - please leave your comments/answers at the bottom of the post. I live only part time in Low Bentham but was very pleased to see the arrival/expansion/conversion of the shop called Antiques into &tiques, selling food. On checking it out I found that they are selling organic fruit and veg at very competitive prices compared to supermarkets, will take orders for newspapers and also sell nice bread. I compared the price of their smoked salmon with Sainsbury in Lancaster. &ntiques price of £2.95 for a pack of Atlantic Smoked Salmon compared with (best price) 2 for £8 at Sainsbury for factory farmed smoked salmon (similar weight per pack I think). Of course they don't do the range that any supermarket can do, but I look in at the shop first even if I am intending to go into Lancaster, for instance, and note what I can buy here on my return. But are people using this shop? Not many, it seems. Isn't it more environmentally sustainable to buy locally where possible and only go to a distant supermarket for things not available locally for a reasonable price? Is there any way that we can persuade local people to give it a try?