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Educational Site Visits

  • Lower Sharpham Farm, Ashprington, Totnes. TQ9 7DX.
  • Free 2-hour tours for schools, funded by DEFRA
  • Contact us at garden@ambios.net to book or get more information

The team at Ambios are offering an exciting opportunity to schools for free educational site visits!

We have educational roots at our working farm where we also offer nature recovery traineeships.  During the tour we will explain how we work with the land and explore the connections between farming, conservation and food production.

What’s included?

  • Two-hour tour, free – thanks to funding from DEFRA
  • Wildlife-friendly vegetable garden, organic farm and rewilding site within a beautiful and inspiring landscape overlooking the River Dart
  • The chance to learn, understand and become engaged with farming and the environment, with the land as our classroom
  • Public liability insurance, DBS checked facilitators, comprehensive session risk assessment

What’s next?

If you’d like to book an educational visit or get some more information, please reach out to us at garden@ambios.net.

Following on from the tour we would love to work with you to develop a tailored series of free visits.   These would have diverse content, tied with the seasonal activities here at the farm and linked with your curriculum needs.  The initial tour could serve as a taster session for these potential future visits.

We’re also on Countryside Classroom now! 

Click here to check us out on Countryside Classroom

Training with Ambios

“What Ambios does is completely unique. You can find conservation training anywhere, but I don’t think there’s another place that offers this level of practical tuition and immersive learning with such a current, sector-leading approach.”
Ambios alumni
“The course proved I could achieve the career I’d longed for - it provided the skills I needed to access jobs and confirmed I loved the reality of conservation work too.”
Ambios AlumniCEO
“My experience has been like an incredible journey of friendship, conservation, skill building and self-esteem”
Ambios alumni
“I have learnt so much to do generally with wildlife, conservation and the environment, I feel that it greatly adds to my future job prospects.”
Ambios Alumni
“The course at Ambios proved I could achieve the career I’d longed for - it provided the skills I needed to access jobs and confirmed I loved the reality of conservation work too.”
Ambios alumni
“It really is a unique mix of theoretical and practical education and then there’s the expertise of your co-workers and teachers which is priceless.”
Ambios alumniCEO
“I gained a lifelong experience and lasting knowledge about the scientific part and the personal side of life too.”
Ambios AlumniCEO
“With this placement I feel I have practical knowledge and experience which is not just a piece of paper and will help me achieve my goals"
Ambios AlumniCEO
“Things I’ve learnt here and the people I’ve met have really changed how I see things”
Ambios AlumniCEO
"Thanks to my time at Ambios, the scales have fallen from my eyes, and, in a very good way, I will never see our natural world in the same way again.   I feel very lucky to have had this opportunity"
Ambios AlumniCEO
"It was a fantastic experience from start to finish, the course is chock full of amazing content, the location is stunning, the facilities excellent and all the team are passionate, welcoming and quite frankly ecological geniuses."
Ambios AlumniCEO
“It was the best 3 months of my life”
Ambios AlumniCEO
“Without doubt, doing the traineeship with Ambios has enabled me to make the leap from working for arts charities to working in conservation in a matter of months. The traineeship gives you practical, tangible skills that employers in the environmental sector need to see"
Ambios AlumniCEO

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