workshops, talks and events
We give intereactive and very participative talks and workshops on positive pollination, off grid living, forest gardening, permacultural living, keeping bees and community profit - and everything in between. Just drop us a line. From gardeners groups, religious communities, retired NHS workers and business groups...we get asked to talk to all sorts of people! If you're interested in a talk, just email us on wildlybrilliant @ outlook.com. We'll be happy to hear from you!
And three fabulous women from Stroud who wanted to visit to see our permacultural land and share their wisdom...our pleasure to meet you all, Stroudies!
The Permies Have Arrived....!
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A fab day this spring with the whole Permaculture Design Course student cohort visiting our Demonstration Site with the fab Klaudia Van Gool...
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Tooled up! Brilliant day learning how to sharpen, maintain and use our hand tools, with members of the splendid PEAT project and lots of local community members. See more here: https://www.facebook.com/permanentlybrilliant
: We had sun and rain and a lovely spring breeze for our Soil Masterclass, and shared expertise and careful opinion on worms, carbon, organic matter and the black gold under our feet, with members of POGG, HOGG and those keen to learn. Soil is the business - have a look at our Splendiferous Soil page here...it's proper extraordinary.
: Watch this space for more info on our next batch of Learning Days: Splendid Soil, Using Natural Surroundings to Support those Supporting refugees; Beautiful Bee Safari and Rocket Kitchen Launch...
Conor Downs Gardening Group: lots of talk about
positive pollination, low impact living and forest gardening...a most engaged and positive bunch of fab people! Thanks for the invite! :)
positive pollination, low impact living and forest gardening...a most engaged and positive bunch of fab people! Thanks for the invite! :)
October kicked off with a fab invitation a talk to
the Conor Downs WI - a roomful of remarkable women! Great evening talking about pollinators, living low impact, energy and homes, soil, food and what so many women know how to do already...manage on very few resources. Quality of life is not always dependent on standard of living! BIG THANK YOU for the donation to the Rocket Kitchen...hurray! It will help buy a picnic bench and table for the kitchen! 
: Cob Oven Building Day!
As part of the Rocket Kitchen programme, we got a Fabulous A Team together to build the cob oven, ready for use in the spring to get local school children getting wild and mucky and making bread and pizza outside: what's not to like! Thanks to Unltd for the wee grant for the cob building expertise from Andrew Ormerod! For more pics and to see the whole process, just click here: Rocket Kitchen! |
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: Wild Thursdays!
Every Thursday from this autumn we've been opening the site to local community members
who want to come and spend some time outside, doing something creative and making
connections with other people, with some fresh air and with our natural environment.
We've been cunningly creative with all sort of craft activities and have been focusing on
developing the Garden of Senses ...
Have a look here:
Garden of Senses
Wild Thursdays
Every Thursday from this autumn we've been opening the site to local community members
who want to come and spend some time outside, doing something creative and making
connections with other people, with some fresh air and with our natural environment.
We've been cunningly creative with all sort of craft activities and have been focusing on
developing the Garden of Senses ...
Have a look here:
Garden of Senses
Wild Thursdays
: Dose of Nature!
This summer we've been running a programme with our local surgery and the
splendid Nature Workshops, to provide a space outside away from daily worries and
anxieties. It's been fantastic - and we've had a whole heap of fun. In fact the brilliant
Dose of Nature guys are now coming back and helping us develop the ideas for the
Garden of Senses - what goes around, comes around!
Have a little look here:
Dose of Nature
This summer we've been running a programme with our local surgery and the
splendid Nature Workshops, to provide a space outside away from daily worries and
anxieties. It's been fantastic - and we've had a whole heap of fun. In fact the brilliant
Dose of Nature guys are now coming back and helping us develop the ideas for the
Garden of Senses - what goes around, comes around!
Have a little look here:
Dose of Nature
Bat Box Building Masterclass!
There are a million ways to make a fabulous bat box...and pretty much every one was built that day.
Building good bat boxes provides a crucial home for the critturs, who are losing their habitat faster
than you can say biodiversity crisis. . There was much banging and sawing and obviously, a great
deal of important cake eating to fend off the cold. Click below for more info:
Bat Box Building - The Importance Of!
There are a million ways to make a fabulous bat box...and pretty much every one was built that day.
Building good bat boxes provides a crucial home for the critturs, who are losing their habitat faster
than you can say biodiversity crisis. . There was much banging and sawing and obviously, a great
deal of important cake eating to fend off the cold. Click below for more info:
Bat Box Building - The Importance Of!
Blooming Bee Friendly Masterclass!
The fantastic Brigit Strawbridge spent the day here talking and positively fizzing about bees, inspiring all the Hayle in Bloomers to get busy on pollinator wisdom. She knows more about bumblebees, solitary bees, honey bees and that they live on, and off, than ANYONE we know! Have a look here for what happened!
Hayle Blooming Bee Friendly Masterclass
The fantastic Brigit Strawbridge spent the day here talking and positively fizzing about bees, inspiring all the Hayle in Bloomers to get busy on pollinator wisdom. She knows more about bumblebees, solitary bees, honey bees and that they live on, and off, than ANYONE we know! Have a look here for what happened!
Hayle Blooming Bee Friendly Masterclass
: Hayle in Bloom Community Day
A fabulous day, with gorgeous hot sunshine bouncing off the waters off the estuary, and local companies and community groups all showing what Hayle can do when it gets together. A brilliant day - and we spoke to dozens and dozens of bee-friendly folks, from Hayle to the northwest of England - all doing our bit for the bees, and selling the beautiful flowers and seedlings from our gardens. Just the job.
A fabulous day, with gorgeous hot sunshine bouncing off the waters off the estuary, and local companies and community groups all showing what Hayle can do when it gets together. A brilliant day - and we spoke to dozens and dozens of bee-friendly folks, from Hayle to the northwest of England - all doing our bit for the bees, and selling the beautiful flowers and seedlings from our gardens. Just the job.
: Hayle Blooming Bee Friendly Day
A brilliant day, talking bees and bee hotels and honey and pollinator friendly planting - wonderful to meet all the people making such a huge effort to get their gardens humming. Click here for a bag ful of fantastic images from the day:
Blooming Bee Friendly Day
A brilliant day, talking bees and bee hotels and honey and pollinator friendly planting - wonderful to meet all the people making such a huge effort to get their gardens humming. Click here for a bag ful of fantastic images from the day:
Blooming Bee Friendly Day
: School Assembly, Connor Downs
Fab morning assembly, talking tomatoes and tomato ketchup and honey and why bumblebees shake their legs and how to make a bee hotel - fantastic kids, all bouncing with excitement and a million ideas and questions. EXACTLY as they should be ...
Fab morning assembly, talking tomatoes and tomato ketchup and honey and why bumblebees shake their legs and how to make a bee hotel - fantastic kids, all bouncing with excitement and a million ideas and questions. EXACTLY as they should be ...
