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Agroforestry Research Trust - Courses in 2007 & 2008
with
Martin Crawford
Venue: Our 2 acre forest garden, adjacent teaching space
and trials site in Dartington, Devon
2008: 10-11 May, 16-17 August, 6-7 September
The overall aim of this two day course is to give you an overview of how to design, implement and maintain a temperate forest garden.
Basics
Design
Practicalities
Species
Teaching sessions will be interspersed with frequent visits into our 13-year-old established forest garden.
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 9.30-5.30 on Saturday & 9.30-4.30 on Sunday.
Course fees - £130 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.
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2008: 11-12 October
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.
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 & 9.30-4.00 on Sunday
Course fees: £130 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.
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27-28 September 2008
The aim of this weekend course is to look at how climate change will affect (and is already affecting) how and what we grow mostly in terms of tree and shrub crops.
The
most likely changes to climate (particularly in the UK) over the next 45 years
will be outlined, and strategies
for coping with drought, heatwaves etc. discussed including irrigation systems.
The
response of traditional tree crops and varieties to climate change will be
covered, along with new varieties and species likely to do much better, such as
almonds, apricots, chestnuts, olives, peaches, persimmons, pecans etc.
The
two afternoon sessions will consist of field trips, one around our sites in
Dartington, and the other a visit to Mark Diacono’s “Climate change farm”
in East Devon, where he has planted orchards of novel crops to take advantage of
climate change (you may have read of his olive plantation in the national
media).
Course
fee: £140 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.
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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.
Our
courses take place on the Dartington Estate, 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 |
There
are numerous bed and breakfasts, also plenty of Inns in Totnes and the
surrounding villages. The following
is a selection of bed and breakfast emporiums:
|
Corner
Cottage, 12 Cistern St, Totnes |
01803
864343 |
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Norwegian
Wood, Totnes
Organic |
01803
867462 |
|
Pam
Gorman, 23 Newman Crescent, Dartington Mention A.R.T. |
01803
863996 |
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Sue
Nancholas, Dartington |
01803
866077 |
|
Croftdene,
Week, Dartington |
01803
862535 |
|
Lower
Cobberton, Dartington |
07990 507047 |
|
Heidi
Orrell, 28 Droridge, Dartington
|
01803 862169 |
|
Berry
Farm, Berry Pomeroy, Totnes |
01803
8638231 |
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Great
Court Farm, Totnes |
01803
862326 |
|
Cherryhayes, Staverton, Totnes TQ9 6NX (10 mins walk from forest garden) |
01803 762266 |
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Silverwood, Fairseat Close, Steamer Quay, Totnes, TQ9 5AN.
Mention ART when booking |
01803 864116 |
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, an
arts college, 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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The ART is inviting interested visitors on a tour of our Dartington research sites (forest garden site, now 10 years old, and trials site), led by Martin Crawford. A small charge of £2 applies. Numbers are limited to 25 - please email or telephone to reserve places.
The tours are on:
2008: Friday 18 April (forest garden site only)
Sunday 15th June (TOUR FULL)
Sunday 13th July
Sunday 24th August all start 1.30 p.m. as below
Please
see the map below for directions - park at the Craft/Adult Education Centre
car park.
Meet at the car park/ forest garden site to
start at 1.30. The forest garden
tour will take about 2 hours. Then
we will drive to the trials site (1 mile away) and spend 1-1½ hours or so there.
No dogs please.
