Creation of a Woodland and Market Garden at Palstone.
There is a Community Drop in on Wednesday 14 August 2024: between 3 and 8pm at the Aune Room at the Old School Community Centre to talk about exciting new plans for this collaborative project.
Working together, South Hams District Council, Sustainable South Brent and The Woodland Trust are creating 65-acre Woodland, including a proposed 10 acre Community Market Garden and Orchard, to support Community Growing in South Brent, within SHDC’s new woodland site near Portford Lane. With the support of the Government’s Trees for Climate Land Acquisition Fund, South Hams District Council (SHDC) has been able to purchase the site. SHDC aims to plant 25,000 trees, with planting starting later this year/early next year.
Food production will be continued via conservation grazing of the establishing woodland, and 10 acres of the site will be leased to SSB for a South Brent Market Garden & Orchard.
The public consultation on 14th August (see https://ssb.org.uk/event/woodland-and-market-garden-drop-in/ ) is an opportunity to look at the proposed design, ask questions, have input into what you would like to see on the site and express initial interest in being involved.
The project will aim to deliver the following benefits:
- Local, healthy food production
- Opportunities for enhancing physical and mental wellbeing, education and volunteering
- Improve the natural environment
- Build local resilience
This is an opportunity to look at the proposed design and have input into what you would like to see on the site.
FFI: email marketgarden@ssb.org.uk
See South Hams District Council/ South Brent Parish Council Press release: https://southbrent.gov.uk/new-community-woodland-for-south-hams/
