Money, money, money

To cap off our week on local currencies, we have reproduced part of a blog Ciaran Mundy wrote recently about the Bristol Pound. The Bristol Pound is due to be launched next month....so we'll all be watching that space when the time comes. Good luck Bristol!!

I have been helping to create a local/regional currency scheme the Bristol Pound. It is, in part, motivated by several key issues to do with the economy plus a few more, but also because I love Bristol, the city I live in, and I find my energies are more suited to creating things than fighting to stop bad things happening (we urgently need more of both). I love the spirit of the people in Bristol and crucially, the independent traders, retailers, artists, street traders, crafts people, restaurants etc. Bristol is often called counter cultural, and for me it's that which makes it feel so exciting a place to live and work. It's that counter cultural attitude that might just save our collective arse when the chips are down. I want my home city to not just remain that way, but to see a lot more of that creative enterprise and try and build some alternative means to function as the system we currently depend on demands an ever higher toll from us all. It may soon fail to provide for many people and then we will need to be skilled in organising a functional local economy if we are to avoid the most serious social fallout in recent history.

So, a couple of years back I decided to hold a seminar called "Money and Economics" (without any real expertise or connections). I posed a few basic questions to try and find out what to do about the endless push for economic growth vs the need to create closed loop, ecologically sound economies. A guy called Chris Sunderland turned up saying he wanted to create a Bristol Pound. The more I thought about it the more obvious an idea it seemed. Everyone who knows anything about the private banking system knows it is structurally designed to impoverish the 99%, so why not create our own system. But doing this at scale across a city was pretty daunting. We knew this would only work if we took the time to hold open the space for other people to come forward and offer some serious skills, ideas and lots of time. We ended up with a great team.

We have spent a lot of time building a strategy in Bristol and working with other transition initiatives, the new economics foundation, Qoin and others to develop an electronic 'banking' system that we think is a genuine alternative. It's called Monea and it already sits behind the Brixton Pound and soon, I hope, behind many other initiatives. I'm hoping this system we have developed can be a solid building block that allows new democratic money systems to spread across the UK and further, to other cities and places that can run a diversity of local to regional currencies at a scale not seen before. I dare not say too much of how far we might go for fear of jinxing it, but simple paper currencies are working well elsewhere: in Germany the Chiemgauer and in the US Berkshares where regional banks support them. We now have the technology to go much further.

In Bristol we have gone for a sterling backed model, something we felt was a necessary compromise in building the network of users to critical mass. We are a CIC and will run it as a 'Multi Stake holder Cooperative'. But there are many alternatives and it's worth really doing the some thinking about what it is you want to achieve in setting up a currency scheme (as well as all the other Transition style currencies check out Bernard Lietaer's The Future of Money, Peter North's book, Local Money, the Spice Project and Community Forge).

In Bristol we have worked hard to persuade our local authority to support the Bristol Pound, but the key elements we want in place first are having the critical mass of diverse independent businesses signed up to the scheme, and support from our Bristol Credit Union to handle the accounts. We have held many talks and meetings with local businesses and trader associations, in the council, community groups and activist organisations and of course the local press. But it's not just telling people what we want to do but asking for real input about what would work for them. It has been a long road to collaborate with so many people and there is no guarantee of success, but the prize is great - a currency can be a systemic driver of equity and sustainability. If it does not work at the scale we hope for? Already the connections and growing understanding that has been fostered along the way make it worth it for me.

We have learned a huge amount that we want to share with others in terms of FSA regulations, the compromise between open source development and security, the technologies behind mobile phone payments and where we can take currencies in the future. But most important we are learning how to organise and that as we get better at organising we can genuinely start to create and collectively run the economies that deliver for people Ciaran Mundy

Original post is here

Lubrication for the local economy

I've often heard money being referred to as the lubrication for exchange systems. But recently it has been becoming less able to fulfil that role. With the Corporation of London and private corporations being in control of the creation of it, they obviously lubricate for their own interests before distributing it to other people.

The problem

In recent months I have been learning a lot about money and our economic system. I have discussed many of the issues with those at Occupy Norwich as well as with family and friends. I have established what I think is the problem with money as it is.

It is not the fact that money is created as debt - all money is a debt, and wouldn't be money if it wasn't, because money represents what value is owed to the bearer, through the authority of the issuer (The Bank of England, in the case of pounds).

It is not the idea that interest is borne on debts - ok, interest can be excessive, and needs to be curbed and regulated, but where it represents the foregoing of the use of that value by the owner for a period of time, interest is a justifiable payment as the compensation for not having access to that value, just as you might rent your house to someone, or lend them something you own as long as you can have it back as soon as you need it.

The problem, I feel, is that the interests of money, and the accumulation of it by banks and wealthy individuals, through the pursuit of financial growth by the wealthy, mandated via corporate law (companies are legally bound to maximise profits above all else), is directing the use of resources, both human and physical, to the benefit of a rich elite of society, rather than for the well-being of society as a whole.

Money as credit

If I do something for someone else, in hope of reward, I'd be a bit miffed if they didn't see it the same way, and that they weren't going to give me anything back. In this way, if they gave me their promise of value as reward, I would be happy that the agreement was in place that I could claim value back when I required it. At this point, it doesn't really matter whether that "promise of value" is in the form of pounds sterling or an IOU, as long as I have faith that the issuer will honour their promise.

In this way, money is merely credit, and nothing more.

Value as well-being

Value on the other hand, is another kettle of fish. Since value is the well-being that I obtain from a particular action, item or experience, I'd be very happy to be rich in value, especially (and this is where equating money and value really breaks down) when I can share that value with others, as that also gives me the addition value of feeling part of something bigger than myself.

So what is money really for?

In a previous blog post, I established that money may have three purposes: as a medium of exchange, as a store of value, and as a measurement of value.

To me, it now seems obvious that using currency as a long-term store of value is bad, because it means that others are always endebted to you, enslaving them to your service, especially if you do not release that money without the condition of return to you with interest (a loan), and that stores of value for the long-term should be investments in things of real value - things which will not lose their value over time (and by value in this instance I mean their ability to provide well-being for people, not the amount of money that you could sell them for!).

Long-term value storage should therefore be in investments, such as property ownership (without mortgage) and in ownership of businesses that provide value to communities (see John's post).

But what about as a medium of exchange? It is the artificial scarcity of money (artificial because it is not aligned with a scarcity of value, as demonstrated by the fact that their are people out of work, who could be creating value if only there was money to employ them) that prevents it from being an effective lubrication for our economy, and thus we need to find alternatives that are more effective.

Previously this week, we have heard about gift economy, which is a great way of overcoming the difficulties of lubrication without having to actually exchange anything. A gift economy can be viewed as one where there is a free flow of value, and no debt. I.e. the creators or "owners" of value forego the debt of giving that value away on the basis that in future, others will do the same for them. It's a great idea, but it does rely on all those within the economy being fair, balanced people who won't take advantage of the system by claiming all the value for themselves and leaving others without, or worse, lending that "value" back to them at interest. It works well in families, but for communities where people don't know each other, we sometimes require something that is more robust - a currency.

Local currencies

From the word go, I think it must be recognised that money represents a promise to pay - a debt, and therefore an effective local currency should be safeguarded from two extremes of those promises:

1. No individual should be in so much debt that they are effectively enslaved to the community, working long hours simply to service debt rather than improve their own well-being.
2. No individual should have so much currency that they can manipulate, even control, the system for use to their will, rather than a collective will; their well-being, at the expense of others.

What kind of currency enhances our ability to create, share and exchange value, without individuals reaching these extremes?

This, I am still exploring, and I could write another whole post with my ideas of how this could be done (although it would be a bit rambly!), so I'll save that for another time!

Images: Oiling bike chain from this youTube video.

A Time of Gifts

We are a market people. In a world where all things are a commodity - air, water, food, animals, the seeds we plant in the ground, the minerals under the ground, the genetic make up of our bodies - money is our god. Everything we do we do in the name of profit. We emulate the rich, we despise the poor. All things on earth are property. This bird, this child, this lake, this mountain has value only insofar it can bring us financial reward. Every day we bow down to Mammon.

We forget absolutely what all scriptures and native prophesies say about a people who are entranced and enslaved to a material world. I am not a bible person, or anyways spiritual, but I know when a house is built on sand and a storm is coming.

Some of us in 2012 are remembering and waking up to reality. The fact is since the banking crisis and the emergence of movements like UK Uncut, Occupy and Move Your Money, a lot of us are becoming atheist and getting much smarter about the spell-making behind money. How it is conjured out of thin air, how the financial high priests shape the physical world to their benefit, how mainstream media and governments serve their interests, and pillory anyone who dares challenge their absolute rule.

Engaging in alternative currencies is one of the ways to break up the global cult of money, as well as providing a transaction that brings benefit to businesses and communites on a local level. There are several organised by Transition initiatives: the Lewes Pound (as Chris has already mentioned), the Totnes, Stroud and Brixton - which pioneered the first e-currency - and most recently the Bristol Pound which will be launched in May (which Ciaran Mundy will be describing on Saturday). But there are other ways in which Transition assists in changing our dangerous allegiance to the money-making Machine and that is in bringing about a culture of free exchange.

Money enables you to control your world, and, as Charles Eisenstein says, in a hostile environment, where you are not connected to the planet or other people, money enables you to buy you some kind of protection. Money enables us to fly round the world and treat life as something we put in a shopping basket. But it doesn't bring companionship or connection. With the trees, with the people, with each other. For that you have to drop your belief in the power of money. And most of all you have to drop your fear.

Dropping belief

So this is a small personal story. In 2007 I went into a jewellery store in my local town with a necklace that once belonged to my mother. I was running out of money. That necklace, like other small gifts, was some kind of insurance against the bad times. It's African amber, my mother had announced when she bought it.

"I'm sorry to tell you this but this is plastic," said the girl in the Amber Shop in Southwold. "You could sell it as costume jewellery."

I laughed. Half in embarrassment and half in disbelief. Plastic! And then I asked myself, why did I go along with that African story, when I knew perfectly well that amber comes from Poland or Mexico, or is washed up on the East Anglian shore.

That's the day I felt hunger for the first time. I realised I would have to face the music and go on the dole. I was no better and no worse than anyone else. I would have to endure what millions of people without voices endure daily, in a process designed to humiliate and grind down those who are not slaves to the Money Machine. It will make me angry and make me fight for self-respect. It will show me a world I have never seen before and discover fellow-feeling in the strangest of places. Most of it will wake me up and realise I am not on my own. That standing up for myself is not just for myself. A year later I will join Transition.

Not having money breaks your isolation and opens you, and when you open up that's when the gifts come. It was shocking, I told the Norwich Heart and Soul group when I related this story, but it was also liberating. My mother spent her highly-bourgeois life saying she wanted to live in a community, that she wanted to be an artist and that things didn't mean anything. They weighed you down. She didn't make it. I was about to.

The gifts of Transition

So the first thing is not to be ashamed about not having money, or the wherewithal to make any. In Transition that's not hard as most of us are broke. We get by. Most of us are on low-incomes and tax benefits. We don't talk about it much, but we know it's there. I don't know whether it's because we have experienced what it is like to live on £50 a week with the world's hostility on our heads, but we do not look at each other in terms of property or income or status. We see the deeper values of people, the work we do for Transition, our skills and generosity and intelligence, we way we make each other laugh. the vibration we bring into a room. The fact is living a low carbon life is also living a low-income life and engaging in Transition culture makes having less easier, kinder, to bear, not just for ourselves, but for everyone on the planet.

This is not just about using Freegle or volun-teering at FoodCycle. You can do those things and still worship Mammon - out of meanness or as "charity", a way to salve your conscience. It's about a whole shift in cultural values. In Transition you're not putting all your attention into living in an exclusive fossil-fuelled property with a swanky car and putting Them down, you are making connections with your neighbour and the neighbourhood. You love street trees and hedgerows that bear fruit and nuts for everyone to pick. You love allotments and community kitchens and swapping second hand clothes and admire one another for living without heating, or cycling long distances to work. Or in the case of Mark Boyle, living without any money at all. This is a culture about We, because it depends on Us to work, a sense of being in the world together. Not Me against you.

In Transition we share stuff as a way of life. We lend each other tools and pass on our skills. In the Low Carbon Cookbook we forage, glean, skip dive, and tell each other about our freegan adventures. In Sustainable Bungay we put on Give and Take Days twice a year for the community to exchange goods without any money. We run Give and Grow days where we exchange seeds and plants, flowers and bushes and knowledge. All our events have an Abundance table with produce freely given from our gardens. I have only just finished the apples I gathered and stored last autumn from the table at the Library Community Garden.

Thanks to Transition I am bold and truly thankful: I can go to my neighbours to borrow a stepladder, a mower, big things I can no longer afford. People give me furniture and clothes, compost from the horses down the lane. Our local grocer lets us have food he cannot sell. Sometimes a pheasant that has been run over finds it way into our pot. It's a different attitude to life, that brings everything you touch to life. It's not glamorous, it's not powerful, but it has heart. A heart that is not for sale.

What do I give in return? When push comes to shove, everyone gives their gift. What they have in their hands at the end of the day. I write. I write in praise of everything I see. All the small and bold moves a people are making to downshift. All the beautiful and difficult things we experience. I write in praise of the people who are learning to love their neighbour and not worship Mammon. I write for the new paradigm. I am writing our story. I write for free.

Video for Sacred Economics; queue outside Brixton Credit Union on Move Your Money Day; Mark, Nick and Eloise on Give and Take Day; Mark Boyle, The Moneyless Man, outside his caravan; with Daphne and Lesley at the Produce Swap in the Library Community Garden

Local Shareholders

It is always dangerous to make generalizations, especially so on a blog but I’ll stick my neck out and say that most people who get involved in Transition pretty soon come to the conclusion that a lot of our environmental problems are a consequence of an economic system that does not meet the needs of the majority. Too many people are employed in unfulfilling occupations to earn money to pay for things that they don’t need and taxes to fund government services that in a better structured society would not be necessary. This week, the blog is considering how Local Currencies can change that.

Whilst I do my best to support local businesses (and have just started a village directory on the PC website to promote local services) I’d feel a bit hypocritical if I made a strong case for local currencies as I have 3 clients in Australia ( serviced via the Internet and not by flying there, I hasten to add!). I don’t think that I’d manage to run a software business in rural Norfolk if I relied totally on locally generated wealth. So I’m going to propose a different route to achieve the aims that Chis outlined on Monday.

Local shareholders. A word very often used in conjunction with shareholders is - ‘greedy’.  Shareholders are often pilloried in the press as faceless tycoons who force companies to pillage the environment in the search for profits at any cost. But it has not always been like that. Shareholders - and banks - used to invest local money  in local businesses and perform a useful function in enabling people to raise the funds to create the services that their local communities needed. Shareholders were often given incentives to use the business they invested in and of course shared in any profits, so would do their best to promote the business. Somehow the march of globalization has distorted this process and has led to speculation, asset stripping and a host of other abuses.

A variant on shareholding was the co-operative movement, which was much more prominent in my youth but has been trampled underfoot by the better promotion of competitors. I wonder how many people still collect a ‘divi’ from the CoOp or even know why CoOps are called CoOps!

Last year, some of us made an attempt to purchase a co-operatively owned woodland in order to produce firewood for our own use – but woods don’t come cheap! Maybe we need to widen the net a bit and get back to the roots of shareholding in order to raise the funds to create genuinely useful local businesses.

What is the value of money?

As my full time job has just finished it is quite a pertinent time for me to be introducing a week about living without money. Whilst I don't live completely without money I do try and live a life that requires as little money as possible, partially because I disagree with western societies obsession with money for it's own sake, but also because in many ways a low carbon, oil free lifestyle is inherently low money too. So many Transition initiatives are enabling life without or with less money whether they explicitly aim to or not and my involvement with Transition has greatly helped me need less money.

I am not actually against money, it makes exchanging goods and services an awful lot easier than relying on a barter system. As this would mean that if you want a half dozen eggs from someone then you need something that both of you deem of equal worth that the other person actually wants. This works sometimes, but often it doesn't. Money (whether Sterling or whatever is accepted as money by both parties) adds an intermediate step so that indirect exchanges can work. This is why Local Exchange Trading systems and Time Banks still use an alternative currency, even if that currency is time.

There is an alternative approach, which is often called a gift economy. This requires everyone to give what they have 'surplus' without worrying about keeping a count of whether everyone is giving the same amount. This already happens a lot within communities, families and other informal networks and websites, such as Freegle/Freecycle and Freeconomy are taking it to a larger scale. This is an approach I very much support and it is great for building communities. However, I just still cannot see how society could work entirely based on this system. A small amount of money is still useful.

At the Permaculture Scotland conference last weekend I went to an interesting workshop on money, where they explained the history of money. Apparently one of the original rationales behind it was to reduce piracy, because if a pirate stole an 'I owe you' note then you could 'cancel' it, where as if they stole the two tonnes of tin that you were shipping abroad it was gone. In light of this it is interesting to reflect on the amount of money theft that occurs in modern society now!

This also highlights what I personally feel is our biggest issue, that we actually see value in money, where as the value is actually in the goods and services. To work money requires an exchange value, but it is not the source of value. It's value stems from what you can exchange it for. It is from losing sight of this and starting to collect money for its own sake that problems have arisen.

Living without money
So how do you actually go about living without money, or at least with very little of it? Essentially it comes down to consuming less, sharing more and doing more yourself. Firstly you need to break the consumption mindset, do you really need it? What does it contribute to your life and happiness? Really it takes very little to meet our basic needs and keep us happy, we have just been brain washed into believing that money buys happiness.

Secondly rather than everyone having their own individual tools and resources, many things can easily be shared, including services. This is where the community built up by Transition Initiatives comes into its own. In Transition Norwich my neighbourhood group set up a resource sharing database with everything from DIY tools, to baking tins and tents to blankets. This suddenly considerably reduced the number of things that I actually needed to own. And so many things can be shared from houses to cars, baths to childcare.

My final living without money suggestion is to do more yourself. Don't spend money on it, make it or learn to do it yourself. This has the bonus of being great fun and much more exciting. But it does have the caveat that it takes more time, which causes problems when you have a full time job as I have discovered this year. Ideally you work less hours and have more time for self sufficiency, that's my plan anyway.

This suggestion can involve anything from forgaing, growing your own food, cooking your food from scratch, making your own preserves/cheese/bread/alcohol etc, repairing things yourself rather than replacing them, cycling and walking, chopping your own firewood, the list is endless. They are mostly things that fall firmly under the banner of reskilling, an area that many transition initiatives are active in. I have learnt so many things from and together with other transitioners.

Personally my biggest expenditure is still on accomodation and bills and apart from living in a shared flat this is the one area in which I haven't managed to find a moneyless solution that I am happy with. Suggestions welcome! Kerry Lane

Photos: the harvest from an afternoons foraging, some of my handmade alcohol and preserves, members of Transition circle West who set up the resource sharing database and maybe I should make myself a hobbit house! (Simon Dale)

Original article is from the introduction to Living Without Money Week on the Social Reporting Project

We have it in our power to build the world anew

The Lewes Pound, when it first launched in September 2008, inscripted this famous Thomas Paine quote on it's pound note. As Thomas Pain was born in Thetford, Norfolk, in Transition Norwich we are pleased to see our County heritage being used to promote the transition message and concept!

This week we are taking a closer look at local, or 'alternative' currency. Local currency has many guises - from the Totnes, or Brixton, or Lewes Pound, to LETS schemes, to time banks. They are all creating alternative ways of how we value our natural resources, and how we value ourselves and the way we transact with each other with our skills.

In conventional economics, as revised and built on by 'neo-liberal' economists and politicians, natural resources only obtain value once appropriated by human beings and made into goods or services. This model of course assumes unlimited supplies of resources, and also does not quantify the energy resources used to create goods - both fairly glaring fault-lines - or so you might think.
Local currencies, time banks, and skills sharing schemes, are all based on a different model - that of creating local resilience, and in the case of time banks and skills shares, placing equal value on the people sharing time or offering skills.

I actually joined the Norwich LETS scheme when it first formed in 1988. I found myself doing bike repairs, and then getting stuff done in my house ( I am hopeless at plumbing), and even receiving massages. There were so many skills on offer, and all within the City of Norwich.

Bartering, in a more general sense, is still very much a common way of transacting in countries of the South. When the Greek financial crisis first hit the news headlines and seemed to be taking hold, I asked a friend of mine ( who was Greek by birth and who still had friends and relatives in the country), what it was really like on the ground. His reply was interesting. He reminded me that in many rural areas of Greece, people do not use currency as we understand it - nowadays the Euro - and so for them much of the direct effect of the crisis was not being felt. There was and is a secondary effect, in that many people from urban areas are 'retreating' to the rural and this is affecting what was a thriving local economy.

In Lewes, when the Pound was launched - fully two-thirds of all it's retail transactions were through Tescos. Lewes is a town of about 16,000 people. The significance of this in terms of resilience should not be under-estimated: where a large national or trans-national company have that much of a market share in a place, it means that the money spent there in Lewes is leaking straight out of the local economy. The New Economics Foundation found that a pound spent in a truly local business circulated an average of 3.5 times in the local economy - a pound spent in somewhere like Tescos simply disappears from the local economy altogether.

With the general awareness now, in Europe and America, of how vulnerable our financial systems are, people sense that actually, money is out of control. Whilst this might give us wobbles, it is actually a sign of hope - that alternatives will press home, and that there will be some hope to create more resilience and place true value on our diminishing resources.

Useful links: http://hourmoney.org/ http://beyondmoney.net/

Top photo: my grand-daughter Olivia with her Mum Patricia

Conquering Alexanders

Alexanders are everywhere you look at the moment, on, around and near the coast in Suffolk and Norfolk. In Southwold on a recent warm day the honey-like scent of the yellow flowers all along North Parade reached us from several yards away.

Alexanders are edible. The young shoots, the flowerbuds, the leaves and the seeds. Even the roots. They would seem to be the perfect forager food.

Only it's difficult to find that many people who like the taste. Apart from using the seeds as a spice (sort of lovage-like) I've never quite got used to it.

Last Spring at the Low Carbon Cookbook meetings one or more of us would always bring some alexanders leaves and stems and bravely announce that maybe we hadn't got the preparation quite right and after all, Richard Mabey recommends them braised in butter, let's have another go. Not bad, not too bad, quite, well almost nice...

When Josiah visited last Saturday, I had been digging up some alexander roots in the garden and planned to cook the smaller, younger ones sliced lengthwise in a pan, slowly. He bit into one of the roots and it was so bitter he spat it out immediately.

Oh well, let's have some huevos a la mexicana (scrambled eggs Mexican style with chilli and coriander) and some of Malcolm and Eileen's salad leaves from the veg box instead.

As I was putting the finishing touches on Friday's post, I heard the front gate open and the sound of greetings.

I got up and followed the voices outside and the first thing I heard was a man saying, "I love alexanders."

Alexis had just arrived for the weekend from London (by train and then bike from Darsham). He and Charlotte are working on the pilot for a national Transition newspaper, the Transition Free Press and are spending the weekend knocking the editorial into shape.

Alexis couldn't believe how many alexanders there were around.

"You really like them? I mean to eat? Seriously?" I asked him. He was.

"Ask Sarah when she arrives," he said.

Sarah and Alexis have both been involved in North London's Transition Belsize since the beginning. They have also been instrumental in setting up community gardens, including one at the Royal Free Hospital, permaculture courses and foraging expeditions. Alexis is the author of Communities, Councils and a Low Carbon Future: what we can do if governments won't (Green Books, 2010) and with Sarah runs cuttingthecarbon to help "businesses, organisations and public bodies... understand climate change more clearly and to consider the implications of the inevitable end of cheap fossil fuels that will come with Peak Oil."

I picked Sarah up a few hours later from the station (she would have cycled too if it weren't for a broken leg) and as we drove past the alexander hordes lining the A12, she confirmed that they were in fact one of Alexis's favourite plants and he loved to eat them.

Luckily (for me anyway) alexanders weren't the only food around to be foraged. So far we have enjoyed two enormous salads picked almost entirely from the wild greens in the garden and the neighbourhood.

Here are some of the plants in this one. And PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT EAT the PERIWINKLE (Vinca major). It is FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES ONLY and is harmful if eaten.

The rest is fine, including the alexanders!

Spring Salad mostly foraged by Alexis with help from Charlotte, Sarah and Mark, includes:

Primrose flowers

Sweet violet flowers and leaves

Salad Burnet

Dandelion leaves and flowers

Garlic Mustard or Jack-by-the-Hedge

Fennel

Hairy bittercress

Rue

Cleavers

Hawthorn leaves

Peppermint

Japanese Mugwort

Chickweed

Rosemary leaves and flowers

Oh, and Alexanders!

Pics: Alexanders conquer Alexis in Southwold April 2012 (MW); Me preparing alexander roots which won't get cooked (Josiah Meldrum); Foraging in the neighbourhood with Sarah, Charlotte and Alexis (MW); Mega foraged salad - don't eat the periwinkles (MW); Foraged lunch (MW)