Eco-logic Books

The best place to find books on landcare, sustainable living, permaculture, good living, death, sheds that look like turtles, and other quintessential texts. Peter Andrews lovingly compiles this smorgasborg of goodies - why go anywhere else?

The Permaculture Association

The Permaculture Association is the hub of the Permaculture network in the UK. As good a place to start as any!

The Permaculture Magazine

The best source of information on what is happening in Permaculture in the UK. Contains course listings, articles, handy tips, and a good set of links.

Transition Culture

Visit only if you are prepared for a journey that starts today and will take you for the rest of your life. This is perhaps the most intriguing website of them all. . . Take a look at the realities of Climate Change and Peak Oil in the warm company of the Transition Movement who offer hope and heart in the form of a massive community response. For such challenges action must start with the individual but then build into grass roots commuinty action. Jump aboard.

The Willow Bank

This is Steve Pickup's willow catalogue site with more details of willow varieties, how, where, and when to plant willow.

Fruiting Bodies

Ragmans Lane has close links with this company who are pioneering the cultivation of medicinal and gourmet mushrooms in the UK. If you are interested in tintures of Shiitake, Reishi, or Trametes, check them out.

Wilderness Discovery

Bushcraft experiences in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean.

Elemental Solutions

Nick Grant runs elemental. If you are looking for advice on rainwater, greywater, septic water or anything remotely connected with it - go here. Its a good website, and worth a visit.

Seed Savers Network Australia

Jude and Michel Fanton run Seedsavers. They taught our 1996 permaculture course here at Ragmans, and co wrote the Seedsavers Handbook, published by eco-logic books in 1997.

Shift Bristol

Shift Bristol has been formed to support local sustainable community action with useful and innovative training.

Land Reaserch Associates

Land Research Associates specialises in all aspects of soil science, land quality and rural land use.

  • Darren Doherty - Farm Planning Program

    18-21st June 2019

    Ragmans Farm is proud to announce that Darren Doherty will be teaching his four day Regrarians Farm Planning course here in June. 

    Darren is one of the leading teachers in regenerative farming, combining the disciplines of Keyline Planning, Holistic Management, perennial planting, building carbon in the soil, mapping, and market access. 

    Matt dunwell in conversation with Darren Doherty

    Regenerative farming has been developed by key people over the last 70 years such as P A Yeomans, Bill Mollison, Alan Savory, Jairo Restrepo, and Andre Voisin, and is now becoming recognised as the key tool in combatting climate change.  Darren Doherty has bought together their thinking into a cohesive programme that enables farmers to plan profitable enterprises that are not only resilient in the face of a changing climate, but help build soil carbon, rehydrate landscapes and create diverse systems . His work is based on solid practical experience across a wide range of production. 

    Farm Planning outcomes 

    1. Produce stable environments with sound watersheds
    2. Restore profitability via integrated & regenerative agricultural development & management
    3. Increase wildlife species, numbers with species & stability of populations
    4. Improve water, soil & vegetation resources of cities, industry & agriculture
    5. Re-establish riverine & riparian areas
    6. Prevent waste of financial, human & natural resources
    7. Entrench regenerative design & living principles within the education system, communities & organisations
    8. Develop viable decentralised energy production systems
    9. Restore local, regional & global mineral & water cycles
    10. Provide value to our collaborators, course participants, clients & community

    His current tour is taking in NZ, France, Spain, the UK, Sweden, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile  and Mexico. The course is aimed at commercial farms, but of interest to anyone wishing to learn more about regenerative farming and healing landscapes. Previous courses in the UK have sold out, so early booking is advised. 

    Price includes 4 day residential Workshop and 1 year membership on Regrarians Workplace 

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