Big love to all of you communards, prospective communards and commune curious folk out there,
Our next Quarterly Commune Gathering is actually a WORK WEEK (Sunday 8th – Sunday 15th June), where we’re working together to get Bentley Urban Farm ready for the Mother Fhungus Festival (Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd June). As well as working parties there will be workshops, discussions and learnings designed to introduce and update you about the ambitious project that is A Commune in the North. It will also include a bunch of time working on the farm and visits to both Donny Skate Co-op and our farmhouse home… with the opportunity to stay over at the farm or the farmhouse (see below).
You’re welcome to come along at any point during the week and stay as long or as short as you like. Sign up here so we know how many people are coming, for how long, and what fod preferences you have:
https://cloud.acommuneinthenorth.org.uk/apps/forms/s/DWDNyHmSCDkGs77DGzmKmmd6
Kids & Dogs
Most of the weekend can be child-inclusive. The community garden is child-friendly in terms of interesting, but obviously young children need to be supervised around stingy, prickly, pointy, rusty, mouldy and toxic things.
The only time which might not be quite so interesting to children is the Sunday morning discussion – we’re trying to find someone to hang out with the kids then, but nothing confirmed yet.
The community garden is fine to have dogs in it, and we can shut the gates meaning that good dogs can be off the lead.
However, the house has a cat, so only very good dogs indeed would be ok to be in the house.
We don’t yet have capacity to look after people’s chidren and pets while we run the gathering, so people will need to be resonsible for any small-and-or-furry-footed companion they bring along, or else self-organise any necessary services.
Food, Accommodation & Waste
Food – all vegan and all gluten-free apart from fresh bread. Cooking and eating together (and clearing up together) is part of the collective culture we’re trying to create, so expect to chop and peel and wash and dry at some point.
Accommodation will be at the house and at Bentley Urban Farm, check out the registration form for the various options. We may struggle to provide private space, tell us early if you’ll need it.
We’re working towards a zero-waste culture and the farm in particular has no bin services. If you bring items which have single-use packaging, please be prepared to take the packaging away with you. If you bring any interesting initiatives around dealing with waste you will earn extra brownie points and may be entitled to an extra-large portion at mealtimes 😉
Money
Donations for the weekend (esp for food) are very welcome – please give what you can. We’ll have a donations pot around somewhere and bank details are below if you want to transfer some.
We’d love folks to set up regular contributions to help the commune’s progress, or specifically to support Bentley Urban Farm:
To get in touch or for more info:
Cath – 07955 332755
Warren – 07846 439982
Looking forward to seeing some of you soon, love from us all
@CitN
