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  • Frankie

    Thunder yesterday, but a glorious blue sky today. If it could stay like this for the PDC starting on Friday it’d be amazing.

  • It’s a wonderful time of year to be a Goat

    Really, it couldn’t be a more lovely time to be a goat. Tasty flowers in the forest, lush grass in the meadow. I’m even enjoying walking them.                     Our first PDC of the year begins just a week from now. Can you join us?

  • Monster Broom

    Wikipedia tells me ”Plants of Cytisus scoparius (broom / giesta) typically grow to 1–3 m tall, rarely to 4 m.” We’ve been cutting down specimens easily 6m today. We’re so happy to see these go. Broom is incredibly flammable, and having a giant impenetrable thicket of them (belonging to our neighbour) so close to the more »

  • D’Rock

    D’Rock is our boar, so called because he’s has Duroc blood. I don’t think we’d realised quite how big he’d got until we looked at this photo of him next to his girlfriend and Jeroen.     Booking places on our upcoming Permaculture Design Courses now. Please join us and meet d’Rock yourself!  

  • Love Is ….

    Love is …..    ……. kisses in the sunshine. Meet the lovebirds, and the rest of the team, on one of our summer PDCs.  

  • Join us! Permaculture Design Courses

    We’re really excited that our first Permaculture Design Course of the year begins in just a couple of weeks. We’re looking forward to welcoming back Joshua Gomez who has worked with us here so many times before. There are still spaces, so please join us!     But if May doesn’t work for you, we’ve more »

  • Big Boys Toys!

    I am indulging my inner 6 year old by getting excited about the machine! Hired locally, it’s doing the groundwork for a ferrocement tank build project that we’ll complete during the summer.      

  • Can’t Beat It!

      You really couldn’t beat the view from yesterday’s work spot. We were doing a spot of work exchange with a friend. Tough work, cutting and hauling these burnt pines, but followed by a picnic on the walk back which couldn’t be beaten.

  • New piggies!

    Beautiful new pigs, two days old in these photos, enjoying their first exploration of the outside world. And here’s proud Dad, Duroc, looking on from the other side of the fence.

  • Quite rainy

    That’s the art of British understatement by the way. Attaching new electric fence so we could move the pregnant pigs, after their shelter flooded.

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