Category Archives: Permaculture

Get Involved with Life on the Farm

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Michelle

The winter quiet times are past and we’re into the season of workshops, open days hosting volunteers, gardening, scything, flowers on the table and shiny, healthy cows out at grass. If you would like to get involved in life on … Continue reading →

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Dates for your Diary

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Michelle

We’re starting to set dates for 2025 summer events. Here’s a couple to pencil in your diary, more details to follow soon! Moth Camp 2025 28th – 29th June Camp over on the farm, learn all about the creatures that … Continue reading →

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Compost Toilet Building Workshop – Gweithdy Adeiladu Toiledau Compost

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Michelle

We are delighted to be welcoming Richard Sylvan back to the farm to lead a Compost Toilet Building Workshop on 11th and 12th May 2024 In 2019 Richard led the design and build of our beautiful roundhouse. Richard, center-front, with … Continue reading →

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Fundamentals of Permaculture

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Michelle
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Compost Toilet Building Workshop 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Michelle

After a years pause, we are back and ready for action. Come and help us build a Wheelchair Accessible Compost Toilet! During the course you will: Help create a small timber framed building and compost toilet infrastructure, using sustainable and … Continue reading →

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Eve’s Garden

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Michelle

A well known tenet of permaculture is ‘earth care/ people care/ fair share’ This means that  a) we need to look after our beloved planet and all its diversity, species and soil – b) look after our human inner and outer world … Continue reading →

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Apple Tree Grafting Workshop

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Michelle

Yesterday we ran our second Apple Tree Grafting Workshop. The day started off with Phil looking at the reasons we choose to graft apple trees onto different root stocks. He went on to look at the principles of grafting, including … Continue reading →

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Establishing Yellow Rattle, Rhinanthus minor

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Michelle

Spring is well underway, the grass is growing and the Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor is germinating in the hay meadows. It is also germinating in profusion in many of the areas that we mulched with grass and hay from Cae … Continue reading →

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Making our own Laburnum fence posts

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Michelle

We are gradually working towards using hedges as the stock proof boundaries of the Trust’s fields, both through an ongoing programme of laying and restoring existing hedges and by planting new ones. While this work is in progress we need … Continue reading →

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February Workday – Ram Pump Preperations

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Michelle

The February Workday was dedicated to carrying out some preparation work ahead of installation of a Ram Pump from a spring on the Trust land to pump water to the top of the farm. Ram pumps are ingenious devices that … Continue reading →

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