Building the dream — mostly in yellow!
Our long‐term tenant and the former owner of the farm, Steve, has finally left for a new life as a...
Learning, working and having fun: weekend courses at The Big Raise
We offer two types of weekend: permaculture and meditation or permaculture and vegan cooking. Our...
Planting our first fruit trees and becoming parents to two kittens
We were lucky enough to inherit 40 hazelnut trees, 30 sweet chestnuts, 15 peaches, four pawpaw...
Capitalism is failing — we need a roadmap to survive climate chaos
As we enter an era of energy transition and the effects of climate change become more dramatic,...
Just how hot is it going to get? The latest climate models are giving disturbing answers.
Imagine spending your whole career working on a question to which you don’t want to know the...
Extinction Rebellion can have a spiritual component
From the back of the crowd, perhaps 400 strong, I can barely make out the figure of the young...
M is for Milk
You want milk for your breakfast, but you’re starting to think that cow’s milk, which is mostly...
W is for What if?
What if, at the start of the 21st century, we had taken climate change seriously? What if we had...
G is for Greta
We are totally inspired by 16‐year‐old Greta Thunberg and what she has managed to achieve with her...