Backsbottom Farm (Middle Wood), Roeburndale West near Lancaster.

This is a weekend to come and help develop our Forest garden which has been designed by Ruth Theobold.

The Farm is part of the permaculture LAND projects.

Past weekends have had a lot of volunteers from Manchester Permaculture group as well as other areas.

Bring tent, sleeping bag and some food. I will provide some basic food eg pasta, pulses and a selection of veg. There is a portacabin space with kitchen , cutlery etc, fire

Bring instrument and a sense of fun and any ideas that might help develop this garden.

Areas of work might include pruning, mulching, artistic sculptures, planting, building shelter, making mandala beds, hugelculture! And having fun.

**If you are coming please let Rod Everett know **
email: backsbottomfarm@phonecoop.coop
tel: 015242 22214

Backsbottom Farm, Roeburndale West. Lancaster
Nearest Train 3 miles Wennington
or to Lancaster then bus to Hornby or Wray and a 2 mile walk up the hill)
Website: www.middlewood.org.uk

July 30th and August 1st
 

This is the final in a series of four forest gardening weekends that we have organised over the last year at Middlewood Permaculture Trust on Slack Bottom Farm near Lancaster. We have had over 70 people in the garden over the previous weekends, and you are invited to come along too, and lend a helping hand in the forest garden, gain skills and knowledge, and celebrate the special time known in the ancient pagan calanders as the Lammas (or Lughnasadh) 'fire festival'.

Last summer a group of us hatched a plan to open up the forest garden, and bring about fresh energy and change. It was agreed that we would organise a series of four weekends, to co-incide with the pagan festivals: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. As a result, a hardy group assembled for Samhain (Halloween) last year, and set about opening up the forest garden, making it accessible, and building a large fire pit, around which we drummed and danced under the full moon ... until the wind blew up and the rains came in!

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These audio reports have some good information in them about the practical aspects of managing a big bit of land.

I recorded loads of stuff while we were doing the tour so hopefully I'll be able to add a little bit more of it every couple of weeks or so.

Introduction

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New season, new plants.

To kick off the start of weekday evening sessions at the forest garden, Wednesday 1st April will be an evening of planting to fill up the spaces within the four quadrants and introduce further diversity into the forest garden system.

Fruit bushes, herbs, seeds and plenty of mulch are in order, plant donations more than welcome!

For further information on the session contact jane or kelda.

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This Saturday!! Come along to the gardening session at the Forest Garden in Birchfields Park - ALL WELCOME! Learn about the forest garden, look for new shoots emerging, and help with maintenance of the existing planting.  Contact kelda for more details

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