Land Settlers Wanted in South Devon

[Judith Whateley]

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From: Christian Taylor <c.taylor at isec.org.uk>
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Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 8:24 PM
Subject: Land Ho!


> PLEASE FORWARD TO THOSE WHO YOU THINK MAY BE INTERESTED IN BUYING LAND FOR
> SUSTAINABLE LOW IMPACT ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.
>
> Hello,
>
> Would you be interested in contributing to buy some land in the South Hams
> in South Devon to run as a group project to sustain wildlife and devise
low
> impact environmental local food and low impact dwelling and art projects?
> The Allaleigh ecological-artspace would be a place where people could
> always stay to have a break from stress and get involved in tending crops
> of vegetables, apples, other fruit, feed their chickens, goats, pigs and
> devising inspiring educational ecological and artistic projects.
>
> The land in question is situated just South of Bow creek of the river Dart
> about 4 miles downstream of Totnes in Devon. The 42.33 acres of land
> consist of 27.98 acres of permanent pasture which is level or gently
sloped
> on the top of a hill, and 14.35 acres of broadleaved woodland consisting
> mainly of oak, ash, holly, hawthawn, hazel ect. The woodland is steeply
> sloped on the side of the valley whose stream flows from a nearby spring
> just off the Northern boundary of the land towards Bow creek. At the
bottom
> of the land are two hidden water meadows bordering the stream.  A local
> farmer currently rents the land for grazing his cattle - and if this were
> to continue in the short-term it would maintain the pasture whilst
> generating some income. Gradually as the project develops it would be
> possible to take land out of it's current management, chunk by chunk into
> the various interdependent project areas we devise as members of the land
> trust. There are 13 field enclosures in the land; 9 being meadows for hay
> and grazing (with mature hedgerows) and 4 being large plots of woodland
> demarkated with small stone or earth walls. Each area of the land could
> have a particular theme that we designate and probably gradually rotate eg
> forest garden, charcoal production, permaculture plot, organic vegetable
> area, mixed fruit and apple orchard, pig roaming patch, goat grazing area,
> medicinal herb zone, wildlife conservation area, watercress patch, honey
> bee hives, rural artspace for educational and thought provoking
> installations (including the many types of low impact / semi permanent or
> temporary structures which can be used for sleeping in, generating
> wind-power, solar heating, irrigation, cooking, etc) and a stage for
> theatre and other types of performance.
>
> Potential products from the land (subject to further investigation,
> experimentation and a few years of development): apples, cidre, eau de
vie,
> medicinal herbs, herb teas, natural cosmetics and medicines, goats' milk
> and cheeze, eggs, a diverse range of berries, organic vegetables (in
> whatever abundance and diversity we can grow on this land), pears, plums,
> other fruit, chickens, ducks, pigs, wool and wool products, charcoal,
> wood-craft products, bottled water (filtered from stream), watercress
(from
> watermeadows) and whatever else we have the skill and the ability to
> collectively produce. There are 4 local farmers' markets within reach; a
> different one each Saturday.
>
> If you are interested in joining this exciting new project, please reply
as
> soon as possible to register interest. If enough people are interested, so
> that it would be possible to collectively pay off a mutual mortgage in the
> name of a land trust, then we can go ahead and formalise the land trust,
to
> which we would pay what money we could afford each month. This is
obviously
> quite a commitment and I fully expect that you would want to have more
> details. What I have provided here is just a preliminary vision to
generate
> some interest. Nothing at all is set in stone. All decisions about the use
> of the land would be made democratically by consensus. Please get in touch
> if you would like to arrange to visit the land and see whether you might
> like to choose this place to dig your dream.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Christian Taylor
>
> PS you could ring me at home on (01803) 865341 at evenings or weekends or
> at work on the number below.
>
> Dr. Christian Taylor
> Programme Co-ordinator
> ISEC (International Society for Ecology and Culture)
> Foxhole,
> Dartington,
> Devon
> TQ9 6EB
> UK
> tel (01803) 868650
> fax (01803) 868651
> http://www.isec.org.uk
>
>


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