Hyde Farm Climate Action Network

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Hyde Farm CAN is a network of 200 households who live on or near the Hyde Farm estate and want to do more to reduce their impact on the environment. We get together socially and exchange knowledge and ideas. We organise practical events and have fun!

Website: http://www.hydefarm.org.uk
Location: Hyde Farm estate, Balham, Lambeth
Members: 19
Latest Activity: May 28

Please visit our website for up-to-date information

British Gas Green Streets
Hyde Farm CAN was recently confirmed as one of 14 community groups around the country to be part of the British Gas Green Streets programme. Around 40 households are participating in the scheme. They and the local school will receive around £100,000 worth of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures from British Gas.

The Hyde Farm 'Eco-House' or The 40% Hyde Farm Household
We have been working out how to reduce our household carbon emissions and reckon we can achieve a 60% reduction without a radical change to our lifestyles. It depends on the starting point of course, so we have decided to try to define the '40% Hyde Farm Household' - a household that emits around 40% of the emissions of an average Hyde Farm household, or the equivalent of less than five tonnes per person per year.

We hope that if we can get a number of people to try to become '40% Hyde Farm Households' we can demonstrate exactly what is needed and what kind of advantages it can bring. It will make it easier for people to understand what they need to do to reduce their carbon footprint. We live in leaky Victorian/Edwardian houses, which are difficult to treat, but we have found some good solutions and local suppliers. If we can make people aware of the opportunities for internal wall insulation when they are decorating or making alterations to their house, this will help. Otherwise we have a fantastic choice of organic food shops in Balham, and charity shops. Using these shops is perhaps an easier way to achieve a quick reduction in carbon emissions, than making changes to our houses. Of course insualting and draught-proofing will be particularly important, with 40% energy price rises forecast for next winter.

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The Hyde Farm Community Garden is based around the disused St Thomas’s Church Hall in Radbourne Road and is worked as a community project, aiming to encourage more people to take part, to learn more about organic food growing, to grow some food at home themselves and maybe take a fresh look how the food we purchase affects the wider environment. Garden produce is shared with those that help and any surplus sold to raise funds for rent, insurance, seeds and equipment. Please see discussion below for some recent news.

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Comment by Jenny Cairns on May 28, 2010 at 4:50pm: Telford Park CAN Social, Monday 21st June at 8.00 at Perfect Blend, 8-9 Streatleigh Parade, Streatham High Road. A chance to meet each other and talk about future events. See events for more info.

Comment by Global Action Plan on April 8, 2010 at 10:23am: Hi Hyde CAN,

We thought you might be interested in our EcoTeams training day on Sat, 24th April at Lambeth Town Hall.

Free & open to all. For more info & to sign up: www.ecoteams.org.uk/events

Best wishes

EcoTeams

Comment by Jenny Cairns on February 15, 2010 at 2:21pm: Hi Hyde Farmers,
We, Telford Park CAN, are organising another Draught-busting Saturday on February 27th at 6 Rastell Avenue, SW2 with demonstrations at 11am and 1pm. The address is part of Hyde Farm CAN's area and we would like to invite you all. We would also appreciate offers of help in helping to publicise the event by leafletting your road, or other means, and by helping run the event on the day. Please contact me if you can help. Jenny

Comment by Sue on May 27, 2009 at 3:44pm: Oscar, you are an administrator now..
We've been harvesting salad leaves and are about to harvest broad beans... we'll have to try to weight it all. We've been selling seedlings quite successfully. Part of our project is encouraging people to grow more at home - a big part really - using the garden as a place to learn and share experience, tools, seeds, seedlings etc...
Sue

Comment by Oscar Giuseppe Martinez Fabris on May 23, 2009 at 8:13am: Hello Sue,
Welcome to the Capital Growth projects; I am a volunteer for Capital Growth and I would like to ask you some information that i need raleted to your project for statistical and production purposes:

1. Can you please make me an administrator of your project in order to add some aerial pictures of the area you are planning to use for growing food.

2. Once the aerial picture is been added please confirm that the picture corresponds to the correct area.

3. The type of crop that you are planning to grow.

4. The date of sowing and the date of emergence of the plantules.

5. Weight all the product from the harvest process.

Thank you very much,

Yours,

Oscar

Comment by Nick on March 22, 2009 at 6:13pm: Hi Sue
Jess has written a guide to doing this here
I hope this helps! Best wishes, Nick

Comment by Sue on March 21, 2009 at 2:52pm: Please can you tell us how to link our events to our home page... We run lots of events but they are not linked to this page.
thanks
Sue