31 MARCH 2016. Eight years ago, -:- Stephen Gehrels led on designing and implementing a school grounds permaculture design at Hertford Junior School in Hollingdean, Brighton. The design included a forest garden, shelter belts, edible plantings, a wildlife pond and outdoor learning areas. This fantastic example of permaculture design in action has been used as venue…
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16 MARCH 2016. As a team, we sometimes joke that if we keep up our efforts Brighton will become an orchard city! This year we have planted 152 trees in 11 locations across Brighton & Hove as well as East and West Sussex. Our -:- Sussex apple National Collection has also grown. Yet we have only scratched the surface…
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14 MARCH 2016. Lodsworth Larder: Winner of 9 architectural and social enterprise awards An extract from Woodsman: Living in a wood in the 21st century by -:- Ben Law This shop is constructed from materials sourced primarily from a derelict coppice in the parish, which enabled an ancient woodland to be restored, such that in the…
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11 MARCH 2016. This time last year, our crowdfunding campaign to raise money to build the -:- Fruit Factory had been launched. We were on tenterhooks every day to see if we would be able to raise the money to finish the building. The campaign was successful! The build continued last summer. By the time Apple…
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11 MARCH 2016. For several years now we have enjoyed the company of local straw bale builder -:- Ian Brown. He is the tutor on our -:- Building with straw bales course, and without him our -:- straw bale Fruit Factory would not be the building of beauty that we see today at Stanmer Park! Ian is…
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