BeeAware Course - Autumn 2018

BeeAware is a course that has been provided by Friends of the Earth Malta past 2 years. It intends to give people the opportunity to get involved in beekeeping, and to train qualified volunteers to possibly volunteer with Friends of the Earth Malta. This time…

Visit to an Olive Grove on 17th Nov at 9:45am

Join us for a visit to tan-Nixxiegha Olive Grove in Binġemma to learn about the olive production. We will be going on a tour of the site, talking about olive trees, herbs, sustainable farming practices and on the importance of having policies that support farmers. This activity is part of our project, ‘Citizen’s CAP’, aimed at making you more aware of the most important EU policies concerning food production.

Visit to Pespus Farm on 24th Nov at 9:45am

Are you interested in how Ġbejniet are made? Join us for a visit to Pespus Farm, a sheep farm that is using traditional practices to make local cheese. We will be going on a tour around the farm and meeting the farming family to get to know more about the work that they do, the current market situation, challenges that traditional farmers face and how policies are affecting their work. We invite people from all walks of life and food diets to join for a visit and a healthy discussion around current farming practices. 

Repair Cafe

DON’T THROW IT AWAY, FIX IT!

A lot of items we discard can easily be fixed with a little bit of care and help from people who are knowledgeable in repairs. For the European Week of Waste Reduction, we will be hosting a repair cafe with 4 repair stations, one for clothes repair, one for bicycle repair, one for electronic repair, and one for up-cycling items from trash to treasure. This will be a way of sharing our knowledge, helping each other out, and learning of how to easily fix things.

Good Food Camp

As part of the Citizen's CAP project, we will be hosting a two-day live-in around the theme of good food. We are planning to have workshop sessions around activism, showing positive examples of sustainable agricultural and discussions around a better food production model, and also more practical sessions such as foraging walks, making preserves and and growing crops.

The EU Protein Plan: a chance to close the loop and have more localised food production?

Plant proteins are an important part of human and animal nutrition, but recently soybeans and other important sources of plant proteins have found their place at the centre of discussion in Brussels.  With two European parliament reports and 14 Member States signing the ‘European Soya Declaration’, why is the EU suddenly talking about soybeans and lentils?

ITS appeal filed, thanks to public support

An appeal has been filed with the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT) against the decision of the PA Board that recently approved the db Group project on the ITS site in Pembroke.

What's in season - November

Although we refer to the pumpkin as a vegetable, it is by definition a fruit.  It is a seed packet encased in flesh and develops from a flower, like apples and berries. The pumpkin is probably the oldest domesticated plant in the Western Hemisphere. Ancient seeds found in Mexico were dated back to around 2,000 years earlier than the oldest corn or bean seeds yet found.