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Agroforestry Research Trust - Courses in 2009
with
Martin Crawford
Venue: Our 2 acre forest garden, teaching space
and trials site in Dartington, Devon
Course dates for 2009:
6-7 June - COURSE FULL
4-5 July - COURSE FULL
11-12 July - COURSE FULL
15-16 August - COURSE FULL
5-6 September - COURSE FULL
(please email us if you would like to be on a reserve list)
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 15-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 - £140 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.
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2009: 10-11 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: £140 (non-residential) includes lunches (vegetarian) + teas/coffees etc.
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19-20 September 2009
Learn
how to process and preserve fruits, nuts and other garden / forest garden
produce. A practical hands-on
course where well be making jams, drying fruit and making fruit leathers,
making juice, bottling fruit, making chutneys etc.
This
course runs on the Saturday afternoon (2.00-5.00 pm) and Sunday morning
(9.30-12.30 am).
Course
fee: £100 (non-residential) includes teas/coffees etc. and you get to take away
various preserves.
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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 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 |
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.
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Beara
Farm, Colston Rd, Buckfastleigh, Devon |
01364
642234 |
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The ART is inviting interested visitors on a tour of our Dartington forest garden site led by Martin Crawford. A suggested minimum donation of £2 applies. Numbers are limited to 25 - please email (mail@agroforestry.co.uk) , mail (46 Hunters Moon, Dartington, TQ9 6JT) or telephone to reserve places.
The tours are on:
2009: Sunday 10th May 1.30 p.m. - forest garden (TOUR FULL)
Sunday 17th May 1.30 p.m. - forest garden (TOUR FULL)
Sunday 14th June 1.30 p.m. - forest garden (TOUR FULL)
Sunday 21st June 1.30 p.m. - forest garden (TOUR FULL)
Wednesday 24th June 7.00 p.m. - forest garden ** evening ** (TOUR FULL)
Saturday 25th July 1.30 p.m. - forest garden (TOUR FULL)
Wednesday 29 July, 7.00 pm - forest garden ** evening ** (TOUR FULL)
Sunday 23rd August 1.30 p.m. - forest garden (TOUR FULL)
Sunday 27th September 1.30 p.m. - trials site including nut trials
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. The tour will take about 2 hours.
No dogs please.
