Permaculture Manchester . . . lets put some green on the urban scene

July 30th and August 1st
 

This is the final in a series of four forest gardening weekends that we have organised over the last year at Middlewood Permaculture Trust on Slack Bottom Farm near Lancaster. We have had over 70 people in the garden over the previous weekends, and you are invited to come along too, and lend a helping hand in the forest garden, gain skills and knowledge, and celebrate the special time known in the ancient pagan calanders as the Lammas (or Lughnasadh) 'fire festival'.

Last summer a group of us hatched a plan to open up the forest garden, and bring about fresh energy and change. It was agreed that we would organise a series of four weekends, to co-incide with the pagan festivals: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. As a result, a hardy group assembled for Samhain (Halloween) last year, and set about opening up the forest garden, making it accessible, and building a large fire pit, around which we drummed and danced under the full moon ... until the wind blew up and the rains came in!

You are invited to Middlewood Trust near Lancaster, for a weekend of permaculture forest gardening, and to celebrate the Beltane pagan festival. Not by accident, this weekend co-incides with the Scarecrow festival in the local village of Wray, where we can join the locals in celebrating this special time of the year, with a giant scarecrow bonfire parade on Friday night and the village fayre on bank holiday Monday.