Working with Fowey School to build a small community farm and develop educational elements. And to make it a place of fun. Our goals can be captured by:
- a garden –
- a farm – for enjoying animals, for managing.
A Project
A work in progress. As the project starts the team will build and each person will have new ideas and new thoughts on how to make the farm work, better and different. Each person will be encouraged to create their own projects and build them into the existing framework or create a whole new framework.
Initial ideas to kick start the initiative include building a barn. Very important place to store equipment, seeds, food and to house animals in winter months. A large commercial polytunnel. As we want to create a veg box business we wanted a place to grow peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and courgettes, green beans, onions and broccoli and much more.
An Education
Education is fun. Fowey River Academy has numerous teachers all skilled in bringing their subjects to life and showing students that education is fun, interesting and challenging. We will build on this with a number of extra curricula projects using skills learned in formal education.
We want young people to build their own businesses and develop skills in managing these businesses. The veg box scheme will provide healthy veg to our surrounding community and to those that can’t afford it, boxes will be provided free.
We will open a pop-up restaurant during the summer months. The whole project will be off-grid and we will build some smoothie machines and a cinema powered by bikes! We want to help educate young people about alternative energy sources.
A Meeting Place
To eat, to chat, to hang out. To bounce around ideas and to have fun. Tables and chairs to build and to create an exciting place to sit.
A Garden
To enjoy, to grow, to dig. A place for permaculture. A food forest. An orchard. A polytunnel. A place to discover why wasps are as important as bees. Why ladybirds are meat eaters and why we can use them to avoid pesticides. Why not digging is a good idea? What is mulch and why don’t woods have to weed!
Wild Food
Wild Innovation
Wild Woods