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The Lamb Garden is a new community garden in Totnes, launched as the info & demo hub for the Gardening for Health project. This is a Totnes Development Trust led project that links community food growing with NHS initiatives. Gardening for Health offers Garden-facilitated Sessions and, a Volunteering and Workshop Programme.



Here’s What’s On at The Lamb Garden​

As Totnes Does The Big Dig 2013.

March 18th [Monday] ~
2pm: The Lamb does The Big Dig UK!!
  Volunteers Welcome :-)

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• Pergola & Garden walls—Fixing Training wire with Vine eyes
• Water storage butt—Emptying & Cleaning.
• Forest Garden —Laying bark to replenish border pathway.
• A Mow of the Lawn and Mulch for the Herb Garden.
• And more, if time!

 

3-3.30pm: Break for Refreshments.



Come along to the Ticket Office [an old Lamb Auctioneer’s listed building] in the now new Lamb community garden. Parking [metered]: Old Market car park      adjoins The Lamb garden, on Cistern St. If coming by Bus: Alight on The Lamb road.



Gardening for Health is a Totnes Development Trust led Project​

Learn more about TDT by visiting their website online. Go to
www.totnesdevelopmenttrust.org.uk



Landmatters “Big Dig Day” on the 16th March 2013 will include a short tour of the project, helping prepare veg beds for the oncoming season and general spring gardening.​

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All tools will be supplied. Please bring suitable clothing for gardening and a packed lunch.
Numbers are limited please book in advance by calling Sharon on 01803 712718/07833938536

When: 16/03/2013 Time:10am – 4.30pm

Where: Landmatters Coop, Allaleigh, TQ9 7DL

How to Get Here:
Bus timetables can be found at:
9.00am Departure from Totnes (opposite the tourist information) – arriving at “Forces Tavern” stop at approximately 9.25am (please ask driver to stop here as it is a “request”
stop)

Landmatters promotes the use of public transport and lift sharing where possible. We can pick up from the bus stop (Forces Tavern bus x81) on the 16th at 0925 if people are travelling by bus. (Please let us know in advance!)

Walking directions from bus stop below:
After approx. 20 minutes bus journey from Totnes get out at ‘Forces Tavern’ (ask the driver to let you know!). It is then approximately a 25 minute walk: turn back on yourself and turn right between Pine Lodge and Forces Tavern off of the main road, walk straight on, down the country lane and take your second right towards the hamlet of Allaleigh. Walk through the hamlet past all houses and down hill. At the bottom of the hill is a wooden gate on your left signed “Landmatters Co-operative Permaculture Project”. Walk up the track, turn left through the small gate at welcome sign. At the top of the hill you’ll find the village green.
By car:
If you do come by car, please avoid driving through the hamlet of Allaleigh! From Totnes, take “A” road south towards Kingsbridge/ Dartmouth. Follow that road until after the village of Halwell. At BP garage, take a left towards Dartmouth. Follow the road for a few miles until, after some windy corners, you suddenly see “The Forces” pub on your left. Take a sharp left, turning in behind the pub. Then take your first right, then your first (steep) left (Landmark: barn on left corner), follow the lane all the way down, at the bottom is a widening with a wooden gate on your right signed “Landmatters Co-operative Permaculture Project”. If you’re only staying for the day, park inside the gate on the right and walk up the track. If you’re staying longer and have lots to carry, drive up the bumpy track and park in the car park at top of track. From car park turn left through the small gate at welcome sign. At the top of the hill you’ll find the village green.

​Landmatters is a 42-acre site, due south of Totnes, with pasture, semi-ancient woodland, a stream, hedgerows and a low-impact permaculture community living in yurts and benders.  It will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this May.

 

 

 

 

 

Landmatters is one of the very few whole-site permaculture places in the country, and has used the design tools for working out what to do on the land, how to organise the 'officialdom', and how to develop community relationships.

 

 

 

The community usually comprises about a dozen adults, half a dozen children, hens, ducks, geese, goats and visiting sheep.  We got planning permission for 8 dwellings in 2007, and have since developed growing areas, small businesses, educational events and activities and the infrastructure needed to support it all.

 

 

 

 

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As well as reducing our personal ecological footprints, we want to create a place where low-impact buildings, technologies, permaculture techniques and ways of communal living can be researched, learned and demonstrated, so that visitors return to their communities inspired and with a clear idea of why and how they might make the changes necessary to live in a post-cheap oil,
climate-changing world.

For more information see website   www.landmatters.org.uk

 

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​We would like to warmly invite any potential volunteers to join us for a special gardening session taking place as part of the Big Dig 2013 in Totnes! The Big Dig is a national campaign to get people digging in community gardens across the UK from 16th to 23rd of March. In and around Totnes there will be 8 gardens taking part in this celebration. At the Rockery, there will be a spring planting session from 12.30 – 2pm on Tuesday 19th March. We are looking for any enthusiastic volunteers; no matter your level of gardening experience please feel welcome to join us! The group there range from complete beginners to seasoned gardening-pros, and all of those in-between.

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The site itself has been part of the Incredible Edible project in Totnes for over a year. Incredible Edible is a local community group which gets together to develop small pockets of un-used land in Totnes, aiming to transform free public spaces into beautiful food resources. The Rockery garden stood largely unused before it became an Incredible Edible site, and now it has become home to many edible plants (fruit, veg, herbs) which are freely available to the public. There are weekly sessions at the Rockery garden every Tuesday afternoon, so the Big Dig is a great chance to get involved in this on-going project and do some spring planting to help provide some more delicious edibles for the public of Totnes!

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If you’d like to get to know others in the local community, find out more about edible plants and generally get your hands dirty with gardening then this is the event for you! Please join us at the Rockery garden, Borough Park (see map on right – The Rockery is just beside Totnes Station/ off Station Road), on Tuesday 19th March from 12.30 – 2pm.

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We look forward to seeing you there!