Dorchester Community Farm

Community farm in Poundbury, Dorset | Permaculture, sustainability and organic farming principles🌱🪿| open farm sessions Wednesday & Sunday

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Join us for our Wassailing in the Orchard next Sunday! 🍎

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Join us for our annual Apple Day in a few weeks! 🎉

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Join us tomorrow evening to ask Dorset Council to declare a Nature emergency and to stop using Glyphosate #makedorsetpesticidefree #natureemergency #councilfornature

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

We have cucumbers in the polytunnel 🎉 #cucumbers #transitiontown #communityfarm

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Community Orchard mocktails🍸🌱 @MichelleTTDFarm 🌱 #communityfarm

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

Did you know the UK has:

💛 24 bumblebee species
🍯 1 honeybee species
🐝 and close to 250 species of solitary bee

We might be all about the charismatic bumblebee, but this week we are celebrating #SolitaryBeeWeek 🐝

📷 Bex Cartwright
🔎🐝 Male Red mason bee

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Wild strawberries and strawberries fruiting and first garlic harvest! 🍓🧄 #communityfarm #wildstrawberries #transitiontown

[The Orchard Project @ProjectOrchard]

Wassail! is a collection of poems for reading and performing, not only at wassails, but at blossom days, apple days and other orchard events 🍎 They were originally written in and for Coton Orchard near Cambridge, which is currently under threat 👉 https://t.co/bcZ0oqd06j

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Polytunnel in bloom! 🌻🐝🌸

[The Orchard Project @ProjectOrchard]

Happy summer solstice! If you’re heading to an orchard, note that in pagan folklore, evil spirits were said to appear tonight. Maybe just in case, wear a protective garland of herbs & flowers - the most potent was said to be St John's Wort (or 'chase devil')! 📷 Conall/Flickr

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

Today at the Farm, Pam taught us to make this spicy Carrot Pickle! 🥕 Learning how to cook and make preserves with the food we grow is such an important part of being in community and food security - and lots of fun!

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

We've started our scything every Tuesday evening at 7 pm!🌾 Come along to learn and have a go, or bring a drink and enjoy the evening sunshine and birdsong in the Orchard ☀️

[TTD Community Farm Coordinator @MichelleTTDFarm]

Our FB challenge has started! Please click the Like button (before Monday midday) on this page to help us save £££ on a new lock up container. £1 per Like to help @TTDcommfarm

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https://t.co/R6Ijx1y9vz

[TTD Community Farm Coordinator @MichelleTTDFarm]

📢Heads up folks

We have a Facebook challenge this weekend with Dorset Mind, to help us get a discount on a new secure lock up container for the Farm. More details to follow!

@TTDcommfarm

[Biodynamic Assoc UK @BiodynamicUK]

Happy International Compost Awareness Week! 🌱 Did you know that biodynamic composting isn't just about recycling kitchen scraps? It's about restoring balance to our climate, nurturing healthier soil and building stronger, more resilient plants. 💪✨

[Transition Together @TransitionTog]

What if all the good, local solutions could grow and replicate to have greater impact? Read our second #TransitionAlive reflection by Cam Elizabeth "The challenge of scaling up well with real world stories from projects/businesses which have been there.
https://t.co/6QXGoQSBgZ

[The Orchard Project @ProjectOrchard]

Eating wild garlic pesto and foraging is high up on our list of a perfect way to spend a few hours and it looks like the local community in Hendon, London agree! We recently marked #EarthDay there with a new partnership with @Earthwatch_Eur to create a tiny new food forest.

[AGROMIX #H2020 🇪🇺 @AGROMIXproject]

🌾Calling all farmers, foresters and farm advisors! Are you interested in finding out more about #agroforestry?

The Agroforestry Open Weekend 2024, coordinated by David Wolfe (@Wakelyns) and Rosemary Venn (@covcampus) is your chance to do just that.

ℹ️https://t.co/3W7cB3Bw6G

[Dorchester Community Farm @DorchCommFarm]

A few of us went to @MillHouseCider 's nursery in Owermoigne to look at their perennials for our Community Farm! 🌱🌱🌱