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The Harvest project's winter 2012 newsletter is out now, with information on upcoming events, guidance on how to become a Harvest volunteer, information about community food growing projects and more! The newsletter is available online as a pdf, just follow the link to catch up with Harvest! [link]

Happy New Year!

On the 4th Feb the University Chinese Society are celebrating Chinese New Year which should be a lot of fun. All the information can be found on this webpage but the main event is on campus at Exeter University in the new Business School (Building:One) from 3pm-6.30pm with a Dragon Dance, fireworks and lots of stalls with food and activities. We look forward to seeing you there!

Harvest will be kicking off the growing season in 2012 with a massive community Seed Swap and Potato Day at St Matthews Church Hall in Exeter. Bring along surplus seeds and swap for things you haven’t got. Lots of free seeds and seed potatoes will be available on the day. There will also be a fabulous café courtesy of Love Local Food, live music, Gardeners’ Question Time, children’s activities, reconditioned tools from Men in Sheds, the Carbon Compost Company, Shillingford Organics and much more.

Staff at Flying Start Children's Centre have been chosen as 'Team of the Week' in the Express and Echo! Click on the link below to read the article.

www.thisisexeter.co.uk/Working-families-flying-start/story-14144483-deta...

Catch up with the latest Harvest news with our regular newsletter. The latest copy is out with information on City Fruit Harvest and upcoming events. You can view it* here [link].

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City Fruit Harvest has now completed its first season and been really successful, not to mention great fun. We have picked nearly 700kg of plums, apples and pears, all of which would otherwise have gone to waste. Most of this was delivered to a range of local organisations. For more information on City Fruit Harvest's first year follow the link.

The second workshop in Harvest’s ‘Get Growing’ Series, Caring for the Soil, took place on Saturday 26th November. With the support of trainer Robin Rawle of the Carbon Compost Company, we looked at the importance of maintaining a healthy soil, and the different ways in which this can be done.

To read more about this Get Growing event, and for more Harvest news, follow the link.

Have you seen the Winter ECI Newsletter? If not, have a look at the link below.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cdae17b2d2477791842446983&id=ebf3ba275d

Would you like to sign up to regularly (4 times/year) receive the Newsletter in your inbox. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the mailing list.

Flying Start Children's Centre's Winter 2011 Newsletter is now available for downloading. Please click here to see what's been happening and what's going to happen relating to Flying Start Children's Centre this winter!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ANNUAL REVIEW MEETING  ON 9 NOVEMBER?

Here are 3 ways you can get caught up:

1. You can read a short summary of the event below, which gives a play-by-play account of what happened over the course of the evening.