29 JUNE 2016. Instructor on our Forest gardening course, Bryn Thomas, talks about the idea behind a forest garden: Co-originator of Permaculture, Bill Mollison, was once asked if permaculture [growing] really worked, to which he replied, “Do plants grow?” Of course, this answer was meant to be slightly facetious, because we all know that plants…
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Why aren’t fruit trees planted from seed?
29 JUNE 2016. Fruit trees cannot be grown as the same variety from seed, so they are propagated by grafting the fruit variety onto a young tree called a rootstock. Chip-budding is a commonly used technique which fits a section of young wood containing a bud onto a rootstock. While the chip bud grows to form the…
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25 MAY 2016. We are pleased to be offering a brand new one-day course on -:- how to heat with wood fuel on Sunday 18th September 2016 in Stanmer Park, Brighton. It will be a great intro to anyone interested in wood fuel, whether for the purpose of heating your home or as a hot water…
More information ...Stanmer Scrumpy hits Brighton
25 MAY 2016. Exciting news – we’ve brewed some cider and will be selling it at Stanmer this weekend! We’ll be in Stanmer Village from 11am to 5pm on Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th, and Bank Holiday Monday 30th May 2016. When we started the -:- scrumping project, we wanted to use fruit that would normally…
More information ...Earthship pizza oven on the way
10 MAY 2016. Our partners at Low Carbon Trust have been busy this month at -:- Earthship Brighton. Power has been restored with new batteries and solar panel. All very exciting! Even more exciting for foodies, perhaps, is that participants on our -:- Building with cob course will be building an outdoor pizza oven on the site. During…
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