DESCRIPTION OF AREAS
(Click on bold text or map numbers.)
- Retail facility
for organic vegetables plants, herbs etc. Resource centre for organic/environmental associations/ information centre. Also incorporates an exhibition display on local culture and farming techniques, connecting old traditions with sustainable practices being encouraged today.
- Braille herb garden walk.
- Herb garden nursery.
- Polytunnel (with unique wooden design)
- Ponds with appropriate
wetland planting- edible/useful species.
- Compost toilets.
- General purpose workshop
and storage area.
- Herb garden and composting area.
- Agro forestry. Interplanting with soft/top fruit; vegetables and herbs.
- Large open area. Could accommodate expansion of local history and farming display/ tree
nursery/ experimental crop research/ additional green manures.
- Private Residential accomodation,
incorporating Zone 1 organic vegetable - herb gardens and Zone 2/3 top and soft fruit plantings.
- Forest Garden. Example of a self maintaining ecosystem -
as in a natural forest - consisting entirely of fruit and nut trees, bushes,
perennial, self-seeding vegetables, culinary/medical herbs that would enable
a family to enjoy considerable self sufficiency with little work after initial
planting.
- Beginning of Woodland Walk,
taking in examples of managed wilderness. Item of botanical interest. New tree plantings,
bird and seal island scenic view points.
Educational facility envisaged.
- Wet weather student seminar facility BTCV/IVS use.
- Permaculture Course venue accomodation. (Reed bed sewage system.)
- Wild flower meadow.
- Tree nurseries.
- Shelter Belt.
- Scenic Viewing Points
- Orchard with Bothy (under construction).