Devon has a lot to offer for those looking for local produce. Zion Lights highlights a few that have inspired her: Shillingford Organics, Riverford Organic and OrganicARTS (…other organic organisations focusing on local produce are available…).
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Zion Lights popped along Agroforestry Research Trust, at Dartington with a possee from POGOE (Permaculturists & Organic Growers of Exeter) for a guided tour of Martin Crawford’s forest garden. Forest gardening is about healing, creativity, sustainability and at it’s heart, it is about community 1 comment - ()
It’s summer music festival season. And Glastonbury shows how big, commercial festivals can thrive, while those of a different ethos – the smaller, less money-oriented festivals demonstrating the original Glastonbury ideals, like the Sunrise festival in Somerset – are struggling against a raft of rules and commerce
Zion Lights is a writer, poet and social entrepreneur. This week on the PRSD we have Perspective 2 comments - ()
The Beanfield play at Exeter’s The Bike Shed Theatre has a special resonance for Zion Lights, who has witnessed similar horrors to what happened at Stonehenge in 1986 at recent climate camp gatherings, the peaceful gathering at Kingsnorth in Kent in 2008, for example. And with cameras and phones confiscated under section 44 of the Terrorism Act, the only record of these events tends to be memories.
Zion Lights merges artiness and greeness in her poetic response to BP and Shell’s involvement with the Tate family of museums
The launch of Zion Lights’ new book More Thing Should Be Thought Out Thus was a community event in a true sense of creativity and sharing, which brought people together. For some tips on creating a successful event, check out Zion’s run-down
Zion Lights is off to the Bristol Eco Veggie Fayre, and it’s inspired her to poetic side. Take a gander at her rhyming reasons to why she’s a vegan 1 comment - ()
Connecting people through creative events is cool – but hard work. So it’s great when you’ve got an excuse to put in graft. Zion Lights’ book launch at Book Cycle in Exeter for her new novel Mor Things Should Be Thought Out Thus is a great example. The idea is to bring people together creatively with art, performance and poetry
Exeter’s Permaculturists & Organic Growers group, or rather Permaculturists & Organic Growers Of Exeter (POGOE) is a collective of Devon folk who have come together with concerns about the reality of peak-oil, concerns about lack of community in society, and green fingers that want to mould positive solutions out of the earth. Zion Lights explains more in her weekly column on the PRSD 3 comments - ()
New columnist Zion Lights gives the low down of what she does and why she does it. What she does is The Exeter Seed Swap and Permaculture Day, Knit and Natter, Chalk for Peace, ExAct, MultiVox, along with things like Critical Mass Exeter, KnitExpo, Food not Bombs. Check out the article for the why |
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