On Saturday 5th January a group of about 120 Brighton Permaculture Trust volunteers gathered for the annual Wassail. Wassail is a greeting meaning ‘Be of good health’. Orchards are wassailed to awaken the trees and encourage new growth and a bountiful harvest to the apple trees. The evening started at Hollingdean Community Orchard with traditional singing,…
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Neil Smith aka ‘Bongo Neil’ to his friends was one of Brighton’s zany characters who I met over 20 years ago when I first came down this part of the world. He was a part of the alternative music scene where a collection of weird and wonderful people would congregate in the pubs and bang…
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Planting an Orchard in the height of winter on a solar farm in driving rain requires a special type of person, and that recipe was brought together by the Friends of Cuckmere Community Solar and their good hearted neighbours, with Fellows from the RSA South East (https://www.thersa.org/about-us) and the Tree Guru Bryn Thomas of Brighton…
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