Shropshire Green Fayres

Shropshire is clearly a green and pleasant land with its lakes to the north and its hills to the south, many people come here specifically for the scenery and tranquility and so in many ways understandably there is a fair amount of environmentally-minded folk in the county.   We're so lucky too to have so many ecologically minded groups from Beekeepers to Ornithologists and cycling clubs to organic cake bakers and textile recycling charities.  

Truely the big society is already alive and kicking in Shropshire.

Shropshire has also been identified nationally as a hot spot for environmental consultancies, with big names like Entec and Enviros based here and literally thousands of indivudual consultants working for hundreds of smaller companies.  We must have more Geology PhD's per head of population that some North Sea oil rigs!

So its not suprising then that there is a growing number of Green Fair events taking place around the county where all these people get together to help promote their work.  They are great for networking and meeting other like minded community groups with which to do joint projects. 

Probably the two big ones are the Shrewsbury Green Fayre which takes place on the first Saturday in July every year at the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and the Ludlow Green Fayre organised by Ludlow LA21 group which takes place each August Bank Holiday around the Castle Square in the centre of Ludlow. 

Both of these events have been running for many years now and attract in excess of 2,000 people each year. 

 

Another huge one is the Clun Green Man Festival which merges the environmental theme with ye olde english morris dancing and a traditional reinactment of the British pagan folklore about the Green Man chasing away the Ice Queen and banishing the Ice Age winter.  

Last year we went to the Wyldwoods Green Fayre which was a new one for us, at the Wyldwoods City Farm / environmental education centre in Broseley.

Another one which is a relatively recent addition to our calendar is the Wem Green Fayre which takes place on the grounds of the Thomas Adams School and is growing in popularity.

We've also attended Green Fayres in Welshampton and Oswestry in the last couple of years. 

If you know of any more, please let us know, we are always keen to attend such events and help raise the profile of home composting.  We always need more people to help out at these events too, so if you have a few spare hours on a weekend let us know.  Equally if you're area doesnt have a Green Fayre or similar type event yet, and you fancy it, lets organise one hey?