The 3rd national Transition Conference was held at Battersea Arts Centre on 22nd-24th May 2009. This is Craig's report on it for The Friend magazine.

The Transition movement has a good claim to being the fastest-growing social movement in the UK. From its origins just 4 years ago in the small town of Totnes in Devon, it has grown into 170 'official' Transition initiatives, with hundreds of others at the 'mulling' stage across the UK and in over other 30 countries.

Transition Heeley / Meersbrook has organised a series of events for June and July.

These include the Community Supported Agriculture project, which is looking at the possibility of using some land in the Moss Valley for growing food.

A meeting on home insulation and energy security will consider how we are going to heat our homes without fossil fuels. This is a crucial issue since by 2020 the UK will be almost totally dependent on gas imports.

The Heeley-Meersbrook Local Food Initiative has a tour of the local allotments planned and also a follow up meeting about growing, harvesting and sharing locally grown food.

Read on for the details of these meetings...

The green lung of the Porter Valley provides a great link between the City and the farms nearby in the Ringinglow/ Mayfield countryside.

We are a small but enthusiastic and growing group looking at setting up a Community Supported Agriculture project/ Transition group in this part of the City.

If you live in Hunters Bar, Ecclesall, Greystones, High Storrs, Bents Green, Nether Green, Fulwood and would like to join us, please get in touch — it would be great to hear from you!

Transition Heeley/Meersbrook held a workshop on community food growing on 23rd April. The meeting was attended by around 50 people and following are audio recordings and slides from the two presentations:

• Chris on Stroud Community Agriculture - download mp3 4.3M | download pdf 2.6M
• Kirstin Glendinning from the Soil Association - download mp3 19M | download powerpoint 12M

UPDATE: A email list has been created for following up the discussions at the meeting and a follow-up meeting on 6th May looked at the possibility of using some land in the Moss Valley. The next meeting on the CSA project will be on the 9th June 2009.

Grow Sheffield is closely related to Transition Sheffield in vision and approach, and provides a coordinating role for visioning and supporting urban food growing for Sheffield.

Transition Sheffield has some paper copies of the Transition Handbook available for £10 but the first edition of the book has also been made avaible on a wiki site for collective updating and revisions.