Introduction to Permaculture, Fermentation and Foraging
Introduction to Permaculture and Vegan Cooking
Introduction to Permaculture and Meditation
Introduction to Permaculture, Fermentation and Foraging
Our main building is going to be upgraded over the next 12 months and we won't have sufficient bedrooms to host course participants, so we're going to take a sabbatical until September 2025.
We will still offer WWOOFing opportunities and one-day introductions to permaculture for groups during the building works. Please contact us if you would like more information.
Amazing news from our farm: it rained this summer! It’s the first time we’ve had significant summer rain since we bought The Big Raise in 2017. It isn’t likely to be a sign of things to come (more drought, torrential rainfall and destructive storms), but it was a...
Our local roofer, Freddy Royeau, and his team spent the month of March redoing the roof of the barn, which was starting to collapse. It was a huge job. It took between three and five of them the whole month. (During all that time – March remember – it rained just...
2021 was in some ways a frustrating year. We lost most of our fruit crops because of a May frost. The tomatoes got blight because of the rain in April-May-June. Some of our young trees died because of the lack of rain from June to September (the fourth drought in as...
1) Location - Observation - Ideally you will spend a year observing the site or sites before choosing a garden site. - Soil - If your soil is too clayey or sandy it can be difficult to get a good harvest. Do a soil analysis to measure the pH as well as the nitrogen,...
Comfrey really is an incredible plant. It has deep roots which bring minerals to the surface, particularly potassium which all fruit need to ripen. If you transplant a comfrey plant, you’ll leave some roots behind so it’ll almost certainly regrow. We replant comfrey...
Alexis' Christmas present (for himself!) was a top-of-the-range Fiskars manual mower. a top-of-the-range Fiskars manual mower. It's a real beauty! A solution that is both ancient (from our grandparents) and modern. This high performance but low impact tool will allow...
