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.
We made some great breakthroughs this year. Someone lent us a machine for taking the double skin off chestnuts so our production of chestnut jam really took off. We also worked out how to make hazelnut butter and chestnut flour. The plan is to launch a nut products...
We’ve had so much rain this winter that our new lake which was dug at the end of November is already full! It’s for water storage, for animals to drink from and for birds to float on. Some of you will have helped to create the pond we’re digging by hand, which we...
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...
This ingenious device is designed to remove pips from tomatoes. But you can use it for removing the two skins from chestnuts as well. This has caused us a lot of problems over the years. And led to a lot of burnt fingers! Now it's a doddle. For the technically minded,...
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...
