For the past couple of weeks I have been busy organising my second green fair. I loved organising the green Christmas fair in December so much so that I decided to dive head long into the preparations of a ‘Spring Green Eco Fair’ this month

Now whilst the emphasis of the Christmas fair had been ethical consumerism and trying to encourage people to avoid the high street and shop local and green, with the spring fair I was really keen to get a good mix of local eco groups, campaigns and green traders. Luckily, as I’ve mentioned before for an average sized town Leamington has loads of green projects and eco businesses so we have a great selection of exhibitors coming along.

Action 21 a local environmental group will be advising the public on recycling and energy saving and will also be providing a free Dr Bike service to all visitors who travel by bike on the day. We also have a lady who makes jewellery from old recycled buttons, Hayley’s Green a fab gift shop in Warwick which sells only recycled products will be exhibiting alonside the local Rising tide group flush from the success of their fossil fools day action last week. If you would like to see who else is coming you can view our full exhibitor list here.

Anyone in the Coventry and Warwickshire area who would like to come along for an eco-interactive afternoon of fun please do, it’s not just about buying green stuff as there will be plenty of opportunities for you to get involved with your local green groups, meet like minded people and discover some great little eco businesses and services in the area

For more information about the Eco Fair click here.

I’ve not been blogging for the past couple of weeks as I have been busy planning a Green Christmas Fair in my home town of leamington Spa. I have had a fab year of attending lots of green and eco events this year so much so that I have been inspired to organise one myself.

Luckily for a relatively small town we have lots of eco projects, companies and small businesses that thrive here so there will be plenty for the public to see and do at the fair. The aim is to encourage people away from the high street and supermarkets and support local small businesses at Christmas time.

I’m also on a quest to find a green santa suit to help promote the event….so if anyone can help I’d love to hear from you.

For those of you in the Coventry and Warwickshire area please come along and support your local green traders and environmental projects. Click here for more info.

There was a very interesting piece on the midlands news tonight about Tesco’s milk. I have seen the local choice ads on the T.V and had to raise an eyebrow as they were claiming you can now buy locally produced milk in their supermarkets. Apparently trading standards have been called in as you can only claim produce is local if it’s produced in the same county or a bordering county. Suprise, suprise Tesco’s claims have been found to be misleading. Local choice milk sold in Herefordshire has actually comes from cows in farms over 150 miles away. I’ll watch with interest to see if Herefordshire and other counties trading standards  prosecute.
If you do wish to support your local milkman and local farms check out Findmeamilkman

Kate