Cynefin Farm is a non-profit Community Interest Company dedicated to fostering transformative change through permaculture and regenerative living education. We feel passionately about supporting, empowering and inspiring people with the tools and knowledge needed to embrace conscious, sustainable lives and livelihoods rooted in the core ethics of Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Shares.

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Permaculture Design Course

Growing Roots – our Residential Permaculture Design Course

A 12-day immersive journey into the principles and practice of permaculture, held on the land in North Pembrokeshire.
For those ready to explore a more connected, resilient and regenerative way of living.

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What a week it has been! First the ‘Pembrokeshire dangler’ came along and dumped a couple of feet of snow onto us for about 24 hours… defrosted just in time for me to head off to Birmingham for my masters study, then straight onto
Thanks to Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research trust, these are just a few of our new friends to come join us in the forest garden this year. Large fruiting sea buckthorns, pine nuts, Nepalese raspberries, almonds, heart nuts, hickories and b
There’s so many forest garden shrubs with apparently edible berries, but i do find that they’re not always actually very tasty! One of my favourite discoveries however is Chilean guava (or ugni molinae) - it tastes something like a fragra
Still lifted by such a beautiful weekend at Henbant for our annual wales Festival of Permaculture 🥰 I love this gathering so much… for the people it brings together, so many dear friends to reconnect with and always so many new connections to
Still pinching myself for getting to sing with the incredible Lea Song from Rising Appalachia last week… her music has been a bit of a soundtrack to many years of my life, so this was beyond amazing! Rubbish photos, but we were in the flow so
This - is how excited I was to catch up with Charlie Mgee from @formidableveg and @brenna_quinlan at cilgerran Permaculture party last week… these two are huge inspirations of mine, with Charlie’s music and Brenna’s artwork always
We found this magpie this morning, no clue how it passed away.. but what a chance to see its incredible colours, they’re not just black and white at all! Our native birds are around us all the time, but how often do we stop to notice just what
When everything seems overwhelming and there’s nothing but dark news on the horizon, this is a great way to remember there’s so much good out there. A subscription to Positive News was my best Christmas present ever.. (thanks pete) &heart
This week it was time for my annual pilgrimage to Oxford for the Real Farming Conference, which is the best kind of winter top up. This is such an inspiring event, with 3500 people all coming together to share wisdom, ideas and inspiration for walkin
Started tackling the post-storm clean up this week.. It’s so sad to see some of these trees laying to rest, most especially a few old favourites that I never thought would come down. But it’s a mixed blessing, as we can now plant up a wid

“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple”

— Bill Mollison

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