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A charity establish in 1998 the assocition links permacultralists in the Isle of Man, run work-parties, course and has a library.
A workers co-operative who do Plants For A Future accounts and offer us a great service.
The FLowers Growing website is the only online encyclopedia of flowers and plants.
Whether you are looking for a guide on flower arrangements or gardening, or want to write educational articles, or want to download flower related stuff, or simply are looking to learn about the floral industry, the website flowersgrowing will provide you with information you can rely on. With a wide ranging array of topics exclusively devoted to flowers.
ARI aims to get more people - individuals and community groups - growing on urban allotments. It will do this by: Promoting and supporting innovation and good practice in allotments management through technical support and advice, site visits, information materials and networking events. Projecting a positive and active image of allotments Raising the profile of allotments with the Government, local authorities and the public.
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The site for the local parish council
London based co-partnership of local people working to revitalise disused land by promoting and respecting natural ecosystems. Very basic site.
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It looks like they are an active group with regular meetings.
Bristol Chinese pain relief acupuncturist,exarmy doctor (MATCM),Dr Zhentong Han,MB(1985),he worked in Army hospital for 20 years and specialises in pain relief with Acupuncture and Acupressure
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An environment centre set in 100 acres of reclaimed landfill. Offer course and a research program. Including a 300 + species wild plant collection; 100 +
species tree trail (UK species); Somerset variety orchard; and a large
collection of willow species/varieties.
An extensive collection of recipes based around or incorporating wild and foraged plants. Includes methods of cooking and the edible uses of plants.
Landrights campain, good legal advice. Produce a magazine 'The Land'
A two acre organic forest garden. The field is leased to Swamp Circus Trust, a registered charity to develop this green space for use by the local community and partners. The field has a central walled garden and radiating sections worked by the project's partners and volunteers.
Our aim is to involve local environmentalists, community groups, farmers and gardeners, old and young, to develop their own permaculture projects and enjoy the land.
catalyst can help you set up housing co-ops, worker co-ops or community co-ops.
a member of radical routes, catalyst has helped over 200 groups get established as co-operatives. using legal structures to help people set up collectively owned and controlled structures, housing and employment.
A long report on the different ways in which livelyhood can be obtained through wild plants.
A Centre for Dynamic Cultural Change birth place of the band Crass this centre in Essex has been a focus for much radical activity in the past 30 years. And its now getting right into permaculture.
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More friends of Plant For A Future. They specialise in forest gardens/woodland gardends/veganic gardens and edible landscapeing.
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One of these days the PFAF site will look as good as this. They have all sort of Suffolk type info, meetings, annual gathering, newsletters, links.
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A Study of Permaculture in Britain an online MA dissretation which provides a good review of the current state of permaculture in the UK. Contains site visits of several projects in the UK.
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An information site to help you spend more time in the garden, and less time searching on-line
Have details of lots of City Farms all across the UK many of these you can visit.
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A free garden plant database that allows gardeners to search for plants that fit their garden conditions and design requirements. Planting suggestions come with plant profiles and pictures as well as adice on cultivation.
Funky Raw publishes a quarterly magazine covering raw food, wild foods, permaculture, spirituality and ecology. We also have an annual festival and workshops where you can learn about raw and wild foods, yoga, etc.
Great website on wildlife frendly gradening, lots of good factsheets on how to encourage various forms of wildlife, plus a good set of links and a reading list.
This South Wales community could turn into something exciting, if only they can raise the money to get some land.
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A comprehensive directory of a wide range of green companies.
Find out more about nature's bounty, Greenman Bushcraft Ltd offers you a wide range of bushcraft and outdoor courses, including nature photography, wild food, tree & plant ID and wildlife watching. We can also provide bespoke courses and one-to-one tuition.
At Greenman Bushcraft you'll also discover a large selection of some of the best outdoor equipment that you can purchase today. Our product range is expanding all of the time and we even have a bargain basement, which is definitely worth checking out!
All content at the website is provided by registered medical herbalist Luzia Barclay (DBTh MIRCH). Luzia practices from her clinic, Turnworth Herbal Practice, near Blandford Forum in Dorset. The site is a local web resource about the healing power of plants. It offers visitors the chance to sign up for informative half-day courses about herbs, or they can visit the online shop, arrange a consultation with Luzia or just find out more about herbal medicine. The site also contains numerous articles and useful links.
A permaculture project based near Lancaster. Pictures of the various projects they undertake. The project has a strawbale visitors center where the run courses and a camping barn which you can rent.
A Devon based porject who work towards the restoration of native, broadleaved woodland in and around Dartmoor National Park. They are partners with many groups and run several tree nursaries.
A Farmers' Market is one in which farmers, growers or producers from a defined local area are present in person to sell their own produce, direct to the public. All products sold should have been grown, reared, caught, brewed, pickled, baked, smoked or processed by the stallholder.
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Provide a single, independent and authoritative source of information on the use and implementation of non-food crop products and technologies in the United Kingdom, with databases covering 2000+ orginisations, 200 crops and many research projects. Strong industry focus.
We grow and/or sell about 2 million native bare-rooted trees, shrubs, hedge plants, fruit trees and roses in sizes from 30cm to 4 metres as well as supplying associated planting sundries. We can deliver across mainland UK on a next day basis and our customers range from private individuals to garden centres, nurseries, estates, farms, planters, landscapers, schools, local authorities and central government.
A great site for anyone interested in wild foods and useful plants and trees. Wild food and bushcraft courses can also be found here too!
North London project which has set up two forest gardens in an Urban environment. Run lots of Courses.
Scottish group creating a new sustainable eco-village somewhere south of the Grampian hills and north of the Cheviots.
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South Wales project, into wild flowers, conservation and education. Have a catalogue.
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A permaculture project in the walled, kitchen garden of Towneley Hall, Lancashire, setup in 1997. Has four eco friendly buildings, wind and solar power and a community composting scheme. In January 2006 Offshoots won a Bura (British Urban Regeneration award). The site is managed by Groundwork East Lancashire.
Orchids growing database. Tips, videos and more.
The main UK group for Permaculture, has details of Courses and Events in the UK, and details of services the Association can offer UK groups.
A good map of the hardiness zones in the UK with an explination of the problems of applying hardiness to the UK.
A charity promoting a wide range of alternative plants which have edible, medicinal and a wide range of other uses. New agricultural techniques such as woodland gardening, the use of perennial plants and vegan organic systems are also investigated.
Some details on plnats for ponds, and creating a bog garden shelf.
a wonderful campaigning site, not really permaculture but focuses on bio-diversity and food security. Offers a good critique of the monoculture practices. With news, actions etc.
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A Nature reserve close to our Blagdon Cross site.
One of the premier permaculture sites in the UK with a big range of courses on offer.
We are a small landscape architecture practice with a special interest in promoting and encouraging traditional orchards. We work with schools, community groups and voluntary sector organisations as well as commercial clients to increase awareness of the wildlife and biodivesity advantages of retaining and preserving old fruit varieties. We built an award winning straw bale walled orchard garden at Westonbirt Arboretum with the help of Common Ground and the Brogdale Trust (home of the national fruit collection) to highlight this issue. We work all over the south west and are based just north of Bristol and also in the Wye Valley where the Reckless Orchard once existed.
An excellent site with a lot of good thoughtful articles about permaculture, woodland gardening and farming. Of particular interest is the article about self-willed land - the rewilding of open spaces in the UK about the need to allow true wilderness to develop again in this country.
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WELCOME TO SIMONTHESCRIBE
Here you will find Articles and Art, ebooks and other publications from the scribe on the themes of Ecology and Holistic Health in an Age of Energy. Enjoy some free downloads about nature and wild food.
A vegan organic project in Lancashire.
A vegan organic project, selling vegan organic products through a box scheme in the Wigan area. Jenny Hall from the project is co-author of the book Growing Green: Organic Techniques for a Sustainable Future discussing stockfree organics.
Run a number of courses, and produce several pamphlets,
including <i>Permaculture- A Beginner's Guide</i>
a pictorial introduction to permaculture - online.
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A project in Devon being set up to demonstrate the value of integrating conservation woodland management techniques (such as coppicing and natural regeneration) with organic growing, traditional skills and crafts and low-impact sustainable living.
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Advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.
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Networking and campaining orginisation, covering sustainable food chains, food poverty, agriculture and trade, and other issues.
A collection on articles on thatching. And links to thatching sites and associations.
Small chemical-free market garden on Cornwall's Roseland
Peninsular, growing seasonal and unusual vegetables and herbs for taste rather than yield, without the use of harmful pesticides and other chemicals. Selling to local hotels, restaurants and visitors.
Building a 40 house eco-village in Bishops Castle Shropshire on land with planning permission and owned by the Trust. It might be possible to work as a volunteer. A very abitious project which could become a landmark project.
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We are a small scale independent organic mixed market garden based at Gear Farm, St Martin on the Lizard Peninsula in West Cornwall and we produce a wide range of herbs, salad leaves and vegetables for local health food stores, farm shops, gastropubs, hotels, restaurants, box schemes and holiday accommodation.
All our produce is grown without the use of insecticides, fungicides and chemical fertilizer and our entire process of production is accredited by the Biodynamic Agricultural Association of Great Britain.
The great flavour of our produce comes from growing varieties which taste the best rather than perform well in terms of uniformity, yield or shelf life and we grow them in a well maintained healthy soil enriched with lots of natural fertility, liquid seaweed extracts and mineral rich comfrey juice.
A collection of plant databases, including: EcoSys - Plant ecological ranges;
EthnobotDB - Worldwide plant uses; FoodplantDB - Native American food plants;
MPNADB - Medicinal plants of native America and several crop specific databases.
Specalise in willows and living willow sculptures. Site has information on using willow for crafts, hedging, biomass with recomened varities.
A site all about British trees. Details and illustrations of 130 trees, with further details on trees and spirituality, the ecology of woodlands, reforestation and much more.
A Land Rights Campaing for the UK.
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An environmentally sensitive human settlement, Tinkers' Bubble is a working example of sustainable living. Bassed in Somerset Tinkers' Bubble has sucessfully chalanged planning law and now have five years to show how low impact housing can intergrate sucessfully with sustainable agriculture. The web page has details of the book "Low Impact Development" by one of the main movers Simon Fairlie.
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A project in Snowdonia, Wales which has been going for about ten years. Among the many intresing articles are one on yields which actually shows that Gorse can be a useful plant.
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We have been working at Penrhos (or Benthros, as it is known locally) since 1986 and been living here since February 1992 when we gained temporary planning permission from the Snowdonia National Park. Over that time we have continued to develop our permaculture design for the holding through the practical application of the ethics and principles of permaculture.
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Past Plants for a Future members. Supply Organic Tinctures/Essential Oils/Dried Herbs plus have a 140 odd leaflets written by our own Ken Fern & Ariadne Fern.
Trees for Health is a voluntary run organisation based in South Devon, aiming to help foster healthy communities and healthy ecosystems by revitalising our use and knowledge of woodland.
A local tree-planting group in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, aiming to prevent flooding and counter CO2 emissions by planting trees, and to promote sustainable ways of living.
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A Calderdale based group who have planted about 60,000 trees and hedge plants. Spin-off projects include the Community Tree Nursery, which is set to take off into its own independent life, and the Wild Garden, an outdoor education area at Ferney Lee School in Todmorden. We've also written a book and produced a video about our activities!
Lofty Wiseman and the team at Trueways Survival School offer a range of Survival Training and Bushcraft Courses to Individuals, Groups and Corporates throughout the UK. All ages and abilities welcome on courses covering foraging and wild food, shelter building, fire, signalling and navigation techniques.
Two Wests & Elliott stock everything you need for your greenhouse or garden, all hand-picked and thoroughly tested for quality and usefulness. From greenhouses to greenhouse staging, lighting systems to watering equipment, propagators to fruit cages and many other gardening accessories.
A group promoting vegan-organic farming in the UK. They have developed a standard and certification scheme for stock-free organic growing.
Vegan-organics is any system of cultivation that avoids artificial chemicals and sprays, livestock manures and animal remains from slaughter houses. Alternatively, fertility is maintained by vegetable compost, green manures, crop rotation, mulches, and any other method that is sustainable, ecologically viable and not dependent upon animal exploitation. This will ensure long term fertility, and wholesome food for this and future generations.
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A UK magazine covering Vegan issues, which regularly covers vegan-organic growing. Back issues are available on their website. They produce a vegan mail order book catalogue in colaboration with octoberbooks.
A vegetable gardening website and friendly forum helping gardeners grow their own fresh, tasty vegetables, herbs and fruit. Including vegetable growing guides and seed saving guides.
To encourage economic growth in the hazel coppice industry through marketing, training and public awareness whilst sustaining the landscape and ecological value of the woodland resource.
A UK-wide food labelling scheme designed to encourage smaller-scale food growers and producers to supply local customers with wholesome, chemical-free produce, identified by a widely-recognised symbol. Offers a good alternative to the Soil Association.
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Offers training and support to groups of women growing food in urban areas. Extensive links section and information on networking and Food Miles.
We are a very small company, producing our own greeting cards and related products all based around trees and wood. We also try to promote in our own small way, the planting and care of trees, please see our 'ilovetrees' page on our website.
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