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Agroforestry Research Trust - Courses in 2013
with
Martin Crawford
Venue: Our 2 acre forest garden, teaching space
and trials site in Dartington, Devon
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.
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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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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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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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 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)
Please see the map below for directions. The nearest postcode is TQ9 6EA.
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.
