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Lovin' yer lichens...

1/27/2014

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Great licheny email this morning:
Dear Sir / Madam
Thank you for registering your interest in Plantlife's Heritage Lottery Funded Project which focusses on Atlantic Woodlands in the south west and provides opportunities for people to learn more about lichens and mosses; the management of these woodlands; and participate in other activities such as volunteering, attending teacher / outdoor educator training, being involved in family events. This email is to update you on project activities.
1) A project manager will be in post from late February and will be ensuring that individuals are contacted with regard to specific opportunities they registered an interest in.
2) We should have details of all the lichen identification days and the lichen apprenticeship scheme (epiphytic lichens in Atlantic woodlands) by the end of February and will be circulating dates, venues and more course information. The British Lichen Society have been developing the course content and we are really excited as to how this is all shaping up. We hope that those who expressed an interest in this will feel so too. We look forward to sending you out more information shortly. In the mean time thank you once more for registering your interest.
Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at felicity.harris@plantlife.org.uk.
 With kind regards
Felicity Harris (Head of Outreach, England and Wales)
The Wild About Plants Team
T:(01722)342730
E:wildaboutplants@plantlife.org.uk
www.plantlife.org.uk
Splendid! :)




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A World of Secret Permaculturists!

1/25/2014

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Fantastic morning with the local Hayle Penwith University of the Third Age this week, talking about permaculture, forest gardening, cleaning with vinegar, preserving food, and being blooming bee-friendly (watch this space for news of the Bee Safari Day plans we have with Hayle in Bloom and Brigit Strawbridge!). Loads of enthusiasm and loads of expertise from a room full of energetically minded U3Aers..who knew there were so many secret permaculturists? Great to be invited to give a talk and I'll be back with a shedload of bamboo from the land here to help everyone make bee hotels. Hayle will soon be Blooming Bee Friendly.:) And then a great meeting with local food producers, looking at how we can sell our local fruit and vegetables to local people even more than we do now; my splendid mashua plant is sprutting energetically (lots of interest at the U3A talk and a group wanting to order their own!); 95 tomato seeds planted and being carefully warmed inside in 100% home made compost until the sun starts to make it safe outside; AND we have just started making our first of a new batch of bee hives...looks utterly brilliant thanks to my very dextrous other half...:)...it's all go at PermanentlyBrilliant...

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Joining the dots...

1/17/2014

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Things sprutting up everywhere....progress moving apace on our Food Bank Garden idea, working with the splendid Food Bank vols locally, and hopefully contributing to our local Health and WellBeing strategy. Got all sorts of ideas as to how we can link up with people who might just want to come and grow stuff for other people if they're feeling low and want a green rocket boost.... watch this space. In the meantime, also booking up slots to go and give chatty talks and workshops on permaculture and environmental growth and low impact living to the local visually impaired group, the local day centre, the local University of the Third Age, developing a sensory garden, and working on a fab bee friendly project and Hayle Bee Safari Day with the wonderful Brigit Strawbridge with the Hayle in Bloom group..January is all go and it's all about joining stuff up...my fave thing in the world!

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huge abundance, making miracles...and bringing back the wow. :)

1/8/2014

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This is simply, utterly, wonderful. JUST what we're working on here at permanentlybrilliant - and this lovely man says it so perfectly - a wee dose of inspiration. My Big Hope: to help places like this happen everywhere so every cluster of villages has access to one. :)
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hail, rain and the rebirth of an orchard

1/3/2014

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PictureWow...a whole row of orchard emerges! Now for the next 95 trees...:)
Extreme day: we got hailed on, rained on, blown on and hailed on again: but made excellent progress with scythe and hedge trimmers clearing bramble and bracken in the East Orchard, using the cut undergrowth to provide the first mulch round the apple, cherry and pear trees and digging out as many of the bramble roots as possible. We cut back our monumentally high and wind-thrashed  bamboo  to give the cherry trees more room, and then trimmed and stacked for use later in the year for beans, peas and our very own bamboo hedging technique. East Orchard is starting to reappear from amongst the bramble arching spikily over the tree tops, grabbing legs and arms as you try and wrestle it out from the branches and then lying in wait to tear at ankles when you think you've got it to the ground. Cheeky stuff. ;) We ended up drenched, muddy and frozen, but pleased with our hard fought results - a whole row of orchard appearing from the jungle! - and warmed up with Grandma's "bit of everything" soup and fab home made flat breads and cheese. Weather even worse in the afternoon - hail coming down sideways -  so inside jobs beckoned: painting the new signs for the land and more work on planning the exciting new projects for the coming year - watch this space for more. :)

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