ON 17 MARCH 2013. With our partners Action in rural Sussex and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, a number of new small orchards have been created in schools locally and a little further afield in Sussex. We have helped pupils and community members to create orchards that, all being well, will bear fruit for 50 to 100 years. Also,…
More information ...Thanks from Moulsecoomb
ON 13 FEBRUARY 2013. by Warren Carter “This is always a busy time of year for Brighton Permaculture Trust, when plans for orchard planting come to fruition. This year they have been particularly busy in Moulsecoomb…. With support from Harvest, Brighton Permaculture Trust are helping to transform Moulsecoomb back to its original vision of being a garden…
More information ...The Bevy Pub Garden
ON 19 JANUARY 2013. Brighton Permaculture Trust helped The Bevy at Bevendean (set to be the first co-operative pub in the UK) plant fruit trees in what is to become an edible pub garden. Read more in The Argus. by Warren Carter The snow had finally melted, so, on a cold but sunny Sunday in January, around…
More information ...‘Tis the season to plant orchards
ON 07 DECEMBER 2012. We will helping schools and communities across Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex to plant many more fruit trees this winter. We have been working hard with our partners Action in rural Sussex and Brighton and Hove Food Partnership to enable a number of exciting projects and are using a increasingly complex funding arrangements…
More information ...New orchard planned for Woollard’s Field
ON 07 DECEMBER 2012. Press release: Moulsecoomb Primary School Assisted by Brighton Permaculture Trust, local schools and community members are planting an orchard on Woollard’s Field, the site of The Keep development, which will provide a new archive centre for the county on the edge of Brighton. The idea for an old fashioned community orchard on the…
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