Tap o' Noth Farm

28/02/2026

Male goose free to a good home.

This fine chap (the white one) is a roughly 8 or 9 year old Embden gander who’s ready to be the baby daddy of your geese. He may be getting on a bit but fathered some goslings two years ago. If he’s not got any juice left in the tank he can at least provide protection to your gaggle and join in with the grass eating duties. If you want him, come get him. Just send us a message and we can organise something.

15/03/2025

Terrible news. This garden and Martin's work has inspired us here at Tap o' Noth incredibly. Please sign the petition. https://chng.it/N4CdysCbck

NOTICE TO QUIT FOREST GARDEN
Thanks for the great messages of support we've received since yesterday!

Our landlord Dartington Hall Trust (DHT) has publically justified their decision with legalistic half truths which need picking apart ....

They have said that as a charity they are duty bound to maximise use of their resources - implying that they really had no choice in the matter.

This is untrue. Yes a charity has that duty, as one of many duties all charities have - the most important of which are acting in a way to achieve its aims. Any decision has to weigh up these duties and is a subjective value judgment made by those in charge.

In this case DHT have chosen to ignore their aims to support sustainable / ecological land use and to support innovative entrepeneurs and act like those stated aims are in fact meaningless hot air.

So to claim they have no choice is not true. They have choices as we all do. And they may have made a wrong one, even fiscally here: they have judged that by bundling the forest garden with ex-schumacher college buildings they can make a "more attractive bundle" to a prospective tenant or buyer. I think the opposite may be true - who is going to want to be lumped with a forest garden they don't know how to manage and with public criticism raining down?

And if the economic boycott of DHT's in-house operations that some are calling for takes hold, there will be further fiscal failures to come.

18/02/2025

Want to come and volunteer with us?!

Hey folks!

We've just updated our WWOOF UK profile and are open to accepting volunteer requests for March onwards!

So if you want to come and help us in the veg gardens and food forests or if you want to learn how to milk a dairy cow and learn what Permaculture is all about we're open to hear from you.

Hello and welcome travellers! WHO WE ARE: We're James and Rosa (44/34) and we live and work at Tap o' Noth Farm, an 8 acre (3.3 hectare) smallholding/homestead, food forest, Permaculture demonstra...