From Bales to Boogie: A Magical Night at the Lower Sharpham Farm Barn Dance
If you were to have seen the barn in the run up to the event, you would have been hard pressed to have imagined what would come. Bales piled high, remnants of apple pressing strewn everywhere, scraps of wood scattered in corners. And yet, from that mess, came magic. In the days prior, everyone on […]
Birds, Plants and Mud – The Saltmarsh Project
The Summer of Nature Recovery trainees had the pleasure of hearing from Isabel Carlisle of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) about the work being done on the Saltmarsh Project on the River Dart, which has been running for 2.5 years. What is the Saltmarsh Project? A partnership between the BLC, Environment Agency, Duchy of Cornwall […]
Restoring Nature 2024
Friday – Setting up the barn Transforming the barn from a working agricultural space into a festival venue is a big team effort. Before we begin, the ground is cleared of manure from our herd of Belted Galloways. The manure will nourish the soil in our vegetable garden for years to come. Next, it’s all […]
Reigniting the orchard
Orchards are not only historically significant sites but also culturally and environmentally valuable habitats. They used to be widely spread in the UK until the 1950s when fruit became commercially available. The loss of these wildlife hotspots has contributed to the large decline in pollinators that would have benefitted from the fruit and flowers. A […]
A year in the Ambios Garden
We are very lucky to have a one-acre organic garden at Ambios, which is visited and worked by a big range of people. The garden grows food for the team, serves as an educational space for learning about growing and many other topics, and is also a place many people come for mindfulness practices and […]
Introducing Medeine
Who could have thought that my back garden would be the river Dart? For the last three weeks, I have been waking up with the morning dawn chorus and eating fresh salad daily from our polytunnel in the top-hill garden. The valley is changing as nature is slowly waking up from winter bringing more warmer […]
