The Buttermarket was covered with children's art work today, all on the subject of Transition Towns - basically, saving energy, growing your own food, eating local food and other related green issues. Nigel Birch was passing just as they were giving out the prizes to the kids, and when he found out what it was all about, he hurried away - he's not exactly a fan of green issues.
Five local schools took part, and the overall winner came from Llanigon School. It's a picture of a hot air balloon, with the basket full of fruit and vegetables, and the caption "Food miles. If only it were that simple". In the 4 - 6 age group, a picture of a strawberry won, with a caption telling readers to grow their own. Old Forest Arts made the winning entries into greetings cards for sale. The art shop provided one of the judges, and all the prizes too.
There were some wonderful pictures there - you could tell that the children had really thought about the issues. We rather liked the banana shaped plane depicting food miles, and the lady digging in her garden, though I was slightly worried by the caption "Eat me - I'm from Hereford!" on one picture. I thought cross-border cannibalism was well in the past!
The organisers were slightly disappointed that very few parents turned up, but they have ideas to get the message out to them if they should run another competition.
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