Dismantling the garden

Smooth or common newt, rescued from one of the roundhouse post -holes

We’ve been very busy dismantling the garden here at Cwm Harry and starting the move to the college site. The more stuff we move the more we are beginning to realise we have! There are two huge polytunnels, a shed full of tools and of course the beautiful roundhouse that we built eighteen months ago.

All of this before we even start thinking about pulling up paths and digging up numerous fruit trees, shrubs and plants. Really, what we would like to be able to take with us is the soil. As we take the garden apart it is increasingly apparent that the whole site has come to life. We found several birds in the roundhouse roof and the amount of insect and amphibian life is incredible, with frogs and newts all over the site.

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I lead on the Cwm Harry Skills and training enterprise, am a qualified teacher and permaculture design tutor and garden designer and project consultant. I write several blogs and am an avid networker and communicator on the subjects of sustainability, transition and co-operatives. I have written an occasional column for Channel4/green and have worked for Channel 4 on their 'Dumped' seriesworked as well as for BBC Wales as a green advisor on their Changing Lives- Going Green series, Nov-Dec 2009. I have been working in sustainable development, on project management and development, teaching, growing and small business development all my life really. I also grew up living and working on farms and have a broad experience working in Britain and Canada and Zimbabwe on sustainable agriculture, grass roots permaculture projects, micro business development and housing and worker co-ops. I have been based in Wales since 1994 and currently live in the Welsh borders.