Low Impact Smallholding Course

dorset | the environment | event notice Tuesday January 20, 2009 18:44 by Jyoti Fernandes - Fivepenny Farm jyoti at tlio dot org dot uk Fivepenny Farm, Dorset 01297 560 755

Course in building your own ecohome

How to Set Up a Low Impact Smallholding
March 20-22nd
Monkton Wyld Court

A course designed to introduce people interested in setting up their own low impact land based project to the basics of getting started. The course will look at the possibilities for living in your own self built eco-home, what kinds of enterprises can go along with managing the land, writing a land management plan and basic business plan, how to find land, how to apply for planning permission, where to find the kit you need and how to muddle through those exhilarating and exhausting first months. The course includes a site visit to Fivepenny Farm. Jyoti Fernandes and Simon Fairlie have both been involved in setting up their own smallholdings (Fivepenny Farm and Tinkers Bubble). £195
contact 01297 560342