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Agroforestry Research Trust - Courses in 2013

with Martin Crawford

Director of the Agroforestry Research Trust

Venue: Our 2 acre forest garden, teaching space and trials site in Dartington,  Devon  

Forest Gardening
Advanced Forest Gardening
Growing Nut Crops
 
Research site tours

 

 

Forest Gardening

 

Course dates for 2013:

10-12 May (Course full)

7-9 June (1 place)

28-30 June (Course full)

19-21 July (16 places)

30 August - 1 September (18 places)

 

 ** Please email us if you want to go onto a reserves list **

The overall aim of this 2½  day course is to give you an overview of how to design, implement and maintain a temperate forest garden.  Course size: up to 25 participants.

Forest gardening – course outline

 Basics 

 Design 

 Practicalities 

 Species 

 

Teaching sessions will be interspersed with frequent visits into our 19-year-old established forest garden and a visit to our new site with two young forest gardens.

Practical information on tree crops, shrub crops, perennials and ground covers will be complemented with visits to our forest garden to look at our successes and failures, as well as to taste unusual leaf and fruit crops.

The course will run 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm on friday,  9.30-5.00 on Saturday & 9.30-4.30 on Sunday.

Course fees - £195 (non-residential) includes sat/sun lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.

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Advanced Forest gardening

 

21-22 September 2013 (12 places)

 

 

This course is for those already under way with their own forest gardens.  We also advise that you should already have attended the forest gardening course run by the ART or alternatively have reasonable experience.

 Unlike the taught forest gardening course, this course will be based very much around the participants, inviting them to talk about their own gardens and discussing their successes and failures.  It should be a good way of troubleshooting problems you are having and getting good ideas for trying new things.  Will include several visits into the Dartington forest garden to concentrate on areas which have been highlighted by participants.  

Course size: up to 16 participants.

 

The course will run 9.30-5.00 on Saturday & 9.30-4.30 on Sunday.

Course fees - £155 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.

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Growing Nut Crops

12-13 October 2013 (Course full)

This weekend course will cover all aspects of growing common and uncommon nut crops in Britain.

Teaching sessions will be interspersed with visits to forest garden and trials site where several nut crops are grown. Several unusual nut crops will also be available to taste.

Course size: up to 20 participants.

Common nuts covered are Chestnuts, Hazelnuts and Walnuts.

Less common species include Almonds, Butternuts, Heartnuts, Hickory nuts, Monkey puzzle, Oaks with edible acorns, Pine nuts.

The course will run 9.30-5.00 on Saturday  & 9.30-4.30 on Sunday 

Course fees:  £155 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.

 

   

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Travel to Totnes

Rail:  Totnes is on the main railway line from London Paddington and Birmingham.

Coach:  National Express coaches from London and elsewhere also stop at Totnes.

Road:  Access is good via the M5/A303 and A38.

 

Accommodation in and around Totnes

Our courses take place in Dartington, about a mile out of Totnes; there are footpaths/cycle paths from Totnes all the way to the venue/forest garden.  Totnes itself is an ancient market town on the river Dart with a distinctly ‘green’ feel, having numerous individual shops, cafes and pubs.

A full list of accommodation is available from:

Totnes Tourist Information

01803 863168

http://www.totnesinformation.co.uk/

 There are numerous bed and breakfasts, also plenty of Inns in Totnes and the surrounding villages.  

If you book on a course we will automatically send you an accomodation list of recommended B & B's.

Dartington Hall is the hub of the Dartington Estate, owned by the Dartington Hall Trust.  The estate includes farmland, woodland, a school, an arts complex, a conference centre, a restaurant, accommodation and more. 

Dartington Hall

01803 847147

 Camping – Beara Farm is a quiet site near the River Dart about 3 miles from Dartington.   

Beara Farm, Colston Rd, Buckfastleigh, Devon

01364 642234

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Tours of research sites

 

The ART is inviting interested visitors on a tour of our Dartington forest garden site and the trials site, led by Martin Crawford.  A charge of £3-5 per adult applies for most tours.  Numbers are limited to 25 adults.  Children are welcome as long as they are supervised - please note there is a pond which is not toddler-proof.

Please email (mail@agroforestry.co.uk) , mail (46 Hunters Moon, Dartington, TQ9 6JT) or fax (01803 840776) to reserve places

2013 dates

Thursday 2nd May 1.30pm - forest garden tour (TOUR FULL)

Friday 31st May 1.30pm - forest garden tour (TOUR FULL)

Tuesday 18th June 6.30pm - evening tour of forest garden (TOUR FULL)

Saturday 6th July 1.30pm - forest garden tour

Monday 29th July 1.30pm - forest garden tour

( More dates to follow later in August, September, October)

** We sometimes have cancellations so if you want to go on a reserve list do email us **

Please see the map below for directions. The nearest postcode is TQ9 6EA.  

Please note: There is limited parking at the forest garden itself.  Parking in the car park near the forest garden is permit holder only operated by the Dartington Hall Trust. Otherwise you may need to park at the Dartington cider press ('The Shops at Dartington') by the roundabout and walk 1/4 mile to the garden.

Meet at the forest garden site to start.  The tour will take about 2 hours.  

Note: for the tour of the trials site in Dartington in October (including nut trials) we will email you directions when you book places.

No dogs please.

The forest garden is behind the Schumacher College. 

 Turn off the A384 by Dartington Church towards Dartington Hall.  After 300 metres turn left up concreted track signed ‘Old Craft Education’ and ‘Overflow car park’. 

 Nearest postcode is TQ9 6EA.

Map at http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?encType=1&where1=TQ9+6EA&cp=50.45166015625~-3.70903396606445&qpvt=TQ9+6EA&FORM=MIRE

 Parking in the car park by the forest garden is currently only possible with a permit (we have a few day passes), there are also some spaces to park in the forest garden itself;  otherwise you will need to park at the Cider press (Dartington shops) in their pay and display car park and walk (400m) – take the footpath near the entrance into the Dartington shops.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

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