Creating a Micro Nursery (morning session) Visit Trimplants and learn from 40+ years of nursery growing experience. Explore how community groups can create micro nurseries to grow resilient plants for local food and nature projects. Practical Biochar Workshop (afternoon session) See biochar being made using Dartmoor Dragons, Tawi Stoves and new kilns. Learn how biochar […]
Our food system is facing huge challenges — from climate change, overuse of pesticides and ecological breakdown to rising food insecurity and inequality. Community groups like ours are already playing a vital role in building fairer, more resilient local food networks. Whether you’re running a food bank, growing on a community allotment, organising a food share, […]
Open Day at the Eco Hub and an opportunity to buy up some of Trimplants (wholesale nursery) mature stock plants: Come and meet and chat with Nicola Peel, Environmentalist and Solutionist, who has vast experience in preventing tropical deforestation through teaching agroforestry in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Regenerating soil and returning biochar to the Amazon. We […]
As well as our in person event on 28th January at Churchinford Village Hall at 14:00 hrs. where we'll be sharing results from our current GISS Project with Plymouth University researchers Tom and Naofel, we're also organising an Online Zoom Event on 29th January at 18:30 hrs. If you'd like to join, please sign up […]
We'll be sharing final results and findings from our GISS biochar research project with Plymouth University. Tom and Naofel will join us and share results from our latest phase of the project looking at different feedstocks including hazel, ash, willow, rhododendron, oak. They'll also share overall project findings which examined differences between the 2 inoculations […]
Come to Blackdown Hills EcoHub and meet our research partners from Plymouth University who will introduce our project. Guest presenter Nicola Peel will share her vast experience of biochar and regenerative farming. Nicola has been working for over 20 years in the Ecuadorean Amazon. In 2016 she started an agroforestry project for the charity Rainforest […]
Join us for a practical introduction to making biochar. Meet our Devon Dragons which turn brash and deadwood into biochar. Learn about the benefits of biochar for water management, soil health and so much more. We've put on this extra day as we've had so much interest. Check out our Saturday event too when we'll […]
We’d like to invite anyone interested in sharing their practical skills in creating Christmas wreaths, garlands, and decorations from natural or plant materials to join us for an afternoon of crafting in a polytunnel at our Blackdown Hills Eco Hub (Trimplants, Combe Raleigh - bottom field). We'll discuss practical ideas on how we can all […]