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The Internship – Water Harvesting Project…
Following the PDC Michelle hosted an NVC introduction before we started the internship project. Due to the urgency of water needs on site we decided to direct our efforts there. A structure was...
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Foraging and Preserving
Most of our carrots seem to be ready and we’re picking them as we need them at the moment…stacking in time!!! Nina has been busy foraging hazels, crab apples and blackberries from around The Patch and...
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Somerset to Wales
After leaving the Burrowhill Cidery we visited the Willows & Wetlands Visitor Centre for an insight into the ancient craft of growing and harvesting willow for crafts and charcoal. Another...
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November at The Patch
On returning from our road trip we came back to a very different Patch. As we move through autumn our vegetable garden has started to die back although there are still a few bits and pieces to...
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The Planning Application
When we arrived back to The Patch after a couple of music festivals in mid July we were surprised to find a planning enforcement notice attached to the new roof we had erected. It turns out that as we...
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Patch Update…
Happy new year everyone! We have not heard anything yet from the council regarding our planning application but we’re keeping our fingers crossed. More trees arrived from Martin Crawford at the end...
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Nimby nature
Recent objections to our planning application reviewed in a few short videos…
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Patch Packdown
I’m writing this post from a blue washed rooftop in Chefchaouen, Morocco. We arrived a week ago after a fairly hands on last week at the Patch in England. We managed to do everything we felt we...
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Planning Granted!!!
Today we received the long anticipated news that our planning application was granted. We’ve been checking almost daily to see if there has been any change on the online application and what a relief...
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