Brighton Permaculture Trust News
Community orchard in Craven Vale
by Grant Scott
On the 25th and the 27th of January, Craven Vale Community Association is planting a Community Orchard around the Craven Vale estate with help from the Brighton Permaculture Trust. There will be forty fruit trees planted starting with twenty this year and a further twenty next year.
We are fortunate that Brighton & Hove Council are keen to see this go ahead with their housing officers and parks rangers being fully supportive of the project.
Funding for the project has been managed by Brighton Permaculture Trust. Additional funding was also made available from The Big Tree Plant and Harvest - Brighton & Hove.
Chichester gets community orchard
Brighton Permaculture Trust supported Chichester District Council's Parks and Open Spaces team along with Transition Chichester in the planting of yet another community orchard recently. Local schoolchildren and rotary club members also lended a hand to plant apple, pear and plum trees, along with a wildlife hedge.
Bryn Thomas, who manages Brighton Permaculture Trust's fruit project, said, "It is great that councils are now organising planting community orchards. We wish other local authorities were as progressive as Arun and Chichester District Councils."
New orchard planted in Littlehampton
A community orchard has been planted in Littlehampton with the help of Brighton Permaculture Trust, in conjunction with Arun Parks staff, Arun and Worthing Mind, volunteers from St. Winefrides Community Garden, and the Arun Wellbeing Team. Twenty-seven fruit trees were planted with the aim of encouraging the community to come together for activities such as apple pressing and fruit cookery lessons. The orchard will also benefit wildlife and help preserve rare Sussex varieties.
Surveying at the plot
We have been cracking on with surveying the plot in Stanmer Park. This time we started looking at the water, sun and wind. There is lots more to do, and if you want to get involved, email us. To find out more about what happened this week, visit Hedvig Murray's blog.
Update on The Plot
by Hedvig Murray
Last Thursday, we had a fascinating time going round the Brighton Permaculture Plot in Stanmer Park and identifying the trees that are on site. We have some exciting trees and some great grafting potential. Find out more, including which trees we identified, by clicking here.
Learn more about the design process for the Plot here.
Trainee Teachers Announced
Congratulations to our six new Trainee Teachers: Don, Beth, Bex, Christine, Edwina and Tracy. We are excited that they are coming along to observe our November and December Introduction to Permaculture courses and start training up as teachers.
RegenAG course report
Bryn and Stephan from the Brighton Permaculture Trust team attended an advanced design course taught by leading Australian permaculture teacher Darren Doherty. He shared his remarkable practical experience in regenerative agriculture, including soil building, pasture management, water harvesting and no-till cropping. Bryn will incorporate case studies and insight gained into his teachings on this year's Building Sustainable Communities course.
Training of Trainers in Permaculture
10-13 January 2012, 13-16 March 2012
Brighton and Chichester
Brighton Permaculture Trust hosts the widely-respected Designed Visions ToT in 2012!
Designed Visions is a group of experienced Permaculture teachers and designers – Aranya, Hannah Thorogood, Looby Macnamara and Chris Evans - who run courses together all over the country. One of the most famous ones is their "ToT" or Training of Teachers in Permaculture. The course is about how to work with groups of people, planning how to teach various aspects of permaculture and having a go at leading a learning session.
It's often done by people who have just finished their Design course and know they want to get involved in teaching PCD sessions, or by Apprentices as part of their Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design. Or maybe by people who want to work with groups in the community and want to know a bit more about how to use permaculture as a basis for their own planning.
Permaculture, Community and Regenerative Agriculture
Sunday 23 October 2011, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Biodynamic Agricultural College (Emerson Campus, Hartfield Road, Forest Row)
Suggested donation: £2
Join Darren Doherty, a foremost authority in Broadacre Permaculture design, for this public talk as he discusses how farms can become beacons of regeneration, working together with local communities for their joint collective future. He will share techniques for use on farms and by individuals for waste recycling, water-harvesting, rapid soil development, as well as other methods for managing land regeneratively on a broad scale. For more information on this event, click here.
The Plot at Stanmer Organics
It has been a long time in the making, but Brighton Permaculture Trust has employed two designers to do two designs for ‘The Plot’: the land and the invisible structures. The Plot is our site at Stanmer Organics where we currently have our Sussex apple tree nursery and is used as a resource on some of our courses. We are really excited to be moving forward with the design and planning to have regular days when we will be surveying, analysing and designing The Plot. If you are interested in getting involved, do get in touch.
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