WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER
Dartmoor Farms' Carbon Project Workshop: How your farm can be part of the solution to climate change bought to you by Devon Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group, The Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund, Duchy of Cornwall & Devon Association for Renewable Energy. Farmers are invited to a project workshop being held at Higher Shapley Farm, Chagford - (10.30 - 14.30)
FRIDAY 9TH OCTOBER
Walk to the Middle of Nowhere - and back! (Two Bridges) A challenging walk heading towards Fur Tor with an opportunity to discuss the role of blanket bogs as a carbon store. Walkers need to be fit and well equipped. Distance 10m/16km
SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER
Bovey Tracey Green Street Fair (1.00pm - 5.00pm) Brought to you by Bovey Climate Action Group, local groups are joining together to put on a Really Green Street Fair in the centre of town - come along and have fun with lots of activities, including making and decorating candle jars, t-shirt painting, mini-pond-dipping and plenty of great gifts and goodies to buy!
Tavistock Farmers' Market: Come and enjoy the finest local food and drink offerings from the UK's foremost food producing region. Voted the 'Best Farmers' Market in the South West'. The markets take place on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, from 9.00am to 1.00pm. Everything you will find on sale is produced within the local area, and stallholders are the farmers, growers or producers themselves.
Increasing footfall but not carbon footprints: Hop on the Haytor Hoppa (Bus Service 271), the circular, scenic bus route - it's perfect for the whole family to go exploring Dartmoor.
SATURDAY 10TH & SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER
Dartmoor Green Living Open Weekend (Ashburton and Buckfastleigh): Visit inspirational eco-homes and low-carbon projects up close and in action, in and around the Ashburton area. Based on the Open Studios arts events, the public will be given a map of the participating initiatives and will be able to pop in to find out more, get tips and ask questions. Examples include insulation, solar water-heating, wood-fuel boilers, off-grid living, low-energy lighting and appliances, community veg-growing and more. The tours will take place from 11.00 - 13.00 & 14.00 - 16.00
Climate change - medieval style (10.35am at Houndtor): Join a guided walk to the deserted medieval settlement at Houndtor (SX 7465 7878) to see how sustainable a lifestyle existed in the 13th and 14th centuries and how the inhabitants responded to changes in the climate. The visit involves a c. 2 mile walk over uneven moorland from the car park at SX 7397 7923.
Two Moors, One Planet Awareness (The Dartmoor Circle): The PL:21 Transition Initiative and Ivybridge Environment Action Group Partnership is hosting a sustainable living networking event at Ivybridge to meet and share knowledge with those already involved in working towards a sustainable future.
Green Living by Sustain Dunsford: As part of the festival two private residences will be open in Dunsford Parish to demonstrate their renewable energy installations. Briton Bank - a domestic wood chip boiler and solar water heating installation. Sowton Mill - a hydro generation turbine. Numbers are limited.
SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER
Renewable Energy Tour - Brought to you by The Devon Association for Renewable Energy (Okehampton Business Centre): Understand how modern wind power uses the energy in the wind to turn turbines to convert this energy to electricity. Wind has the potential to produce substantial amounts of green electricity, and small-scale wind power has a genuine role in achieving this. Insights and examples galore to take your first steps into harnessing wind power!
Guided walk onto Holne Moor : Join a guided walk onto Holne Moor to look at this nationally important landscape which contains both prehistoric and medieval archaeology and hear about the sustainable lifestyle practiced by Dartmoor's former inhabitants and also how they reacted to earlier periods of climate change.
330ppm Greener Teign event: This event highlights the inter-connectedness of all parts of our world. We will be raising a 350 flag from the top of the tower to link the 2 Moors Low Carbon Festival to the Global 350 campaign. The flag which will be visible from many parts of Dartmoor will be transported to the tower from the Teign Valley by local children and adults on horseback, on foot, on bicycles or by any other non-motorised means.
FRIDAY 9TH OCTOBER
Eco Fair & Film Show Bought to you by Minehead & Alcombe Transition Group. Visitors will enjoy stalls offering local produce and goods, a fair-trade café and "pick your own shopping bag" made for you on the spot in a fabric of your choice. "Keep it local and retain traditional skills" is our message for the Festival.
SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER
Wood Fair at Dulverton: This is the event for all wood lovers! Experience woodland management in action with demonstrations and displays about Exmoor's timber and wood related industries and activities. On show will also be wood-fuel processors, mobile timber milling and processing, green woodworkers, craft stalls and timber framers manufacturing timber building products.
Exmoor Energy Excursion - Learn all about renewable energy on this full day tour around a variety of renewable energy sites on Exmoor including Hydro, Biomass, Wind power, Solar thermal and RPV technology. The event is open to anyone and a delegate fee applies to cover transport between sites, lunch and refreshments.
Sustainable Leisure Events at Wimbleball Lake - Come and enjoy a tour of Wimbleball lake by electric fishing boat, taking in the dam and the wildlife living in and on the lake. Tours will be on a first come first served basis. The Wimbleball Lake activity centre will also be offering some water sport taster sessions at the following times: 10-12pm Kayak taster; 12.30-2.30pm Sailing taster session; 3pm-5pm Windsurf taster session.
All sessions will need to booked in advance (01398 371 460 / wimbleball@wimbleball.org.uk ) and cost £32 per person. However, anyone arriving at the lake using sustainable transport methods will qualify for a 20% discount of this price. You will also receive 20% off anything purchased in the Lake's tea room. Booking advisable .
SATURDAY 10TH & SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER
Tall Trees Trek - Run in conjunction with award winning green tourism business - Spears Cross of Dunster - this trek will give delegates an opportunity to be some of the first people to use a new circular walking route that takes in the new tall trees trail (home of England's tallest tree), through Dunster's sustainably managed woodlands, stunning views from Bats Castle (iron age hillfort) by the most sustainable transport possible - on foot!
SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER
Exmoor Mire Restoration Project Open Day - (Squallacombe) Guided tours (lasting 30mins or 2 hrs) of the Mire Project restoration sites at Squallacombe and North Twitchen and plenty of other bog related activities so bring your wellies!
Exmoor Food Fair - An opportunity to meet the producers and purchase some of the best of Exmoor produce and to walk through the 'Food Mile Supermarket', learning more about the true cost of one's shopping basket!
MONDAY 12TH OCTOBER
Grow Your Own Home! - You'll visit a two storey semi detached straw bale house - one of the only ones in the country - that's near completion on the roof of Exmoor and far from a tourist attraction, it is considered the future of low carbon construction.
Exford Housing Project -. Using hemp as the insulating wall structure. Both innovative, sustainable constructions, Public and industry professionals alike can visit this unique construction; anyone interested can book their place via the website.
TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER
Carbon Fields Workshop - Join the BBC Archers' Agricultural editor and author Graham Harvey as he explores the importance of grassland farming in meeting the challenges of climate change and food security in Britain. PTO
