1) One Day Chakra Retreat at Plants for A Future, with Kaya Marklund

    Saturday 13th May 10.30am – 7pm

   For more info please see attachment

   To book, please phone 07498527611 or email [email protected]

2) 3 Day course on  Active Hope and Permaculture with Klaudia Van Gool and Addy Fern

    13th-16th July 2023

Active Hope is a process designed by Joanna Macey, to help us to face our difficult emotions connected with the destruction of the Natural Environment – or anything else! Active Hope has its roots in connecting with the Natural World, and in Buddhism.

For more info, and to book, please go to klaudia.co.uk

On her website, go to “Workshops and Training”, then “All Courses”. Scroll down until you see Active Hope and Permaculture.

3) Nine-day Chakra Retreat with Kaya Marklund. Addy Fern will be teaching some morning yoga

  12th – 20th August 2023

  More details to follow – or contact Kaya – see above.

4) Various Guided Tours of Plants For A Future

Various dates available – which I am in the process of sorting out!

 I will be giving various tours as crowd-funder rewards for Claire Wallenstein at Cornwall Climate care to enable her to fund her current film “Hungry for Change” – which also features us!  Contact me at [email protected] to book a tour

The Planned dates for Claire are Sunday May 7th, Sunday June 18th, Sunday July 9th and Sunday August 27th. Some of these may change.

A tour is an interesting walk around the land looking at and tasting (where appropriate) the many edible, medicinal, and other useful plants growing on the Land. We will look at perennial salads; fruits, including many unusual and intriguing fruits and superfood berries that people can grow themselves; nuts and root crops. The tour also looks at how we can grow food more efficiently and with less effort. And we consider ways we can grow our food more in harmony with Nature, rather than just fighting against it all the time, and why this is so important for our own survival on this Planet.

Jo Barker and Addy will be running a plants and permaculture course on August 12th to 14th.

For more information and booking see: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5435374

We have decided to cancel the Wild Camping Weekend this year due to the delay in upgrading our facilities caused by the coronavirus lockdown.

We hope that various courses will be available next year.

If you are still interested in visiting this year, we are still open for volunteers and tours (all by appointment only please.)

If you are interested, please email [email protected], or phone 01208 873554.

Many Thanks for your patience.

Even in temperate climates, such as on our land in Cornwall, it is possible to provide fresh fruit all year round. Common fruits such as apples, for example, can be harvested in the autumn and, with the right varieties, can be stored until the following summer.

We do not focus just on these more common fruits, however. We can usually pick at least small amounts of fresh fruit in virtually every month of the year.

As we move into winter so our fruit harvesting for this year is drawing to a close. We have yet to pick the last of the apples and still have to find time for the kiwi fruits (a very heavy crop this year, which will ripen fully in store over the next few month) and will hopefully be picking Hippophae fruits until early February.

The seasons run in circles though, and even as this year draws to its close we can already see the first signs of next year’s fruit harvest.

Our evergreen Elaeagnus species flower in the autumn and then slowly develop their fruit over the winter ready for us to harvest in the spring. This year, possibly as a result of the hot summer (oh, pleasant memories!) the potential crop is looking better than I can ever remember. With luck, by the end of March, we will be eating these fruits and their edible seeds.