Orchard Barn
OBSERVATION who are Orchard Barn
OBee is Community Interest Company, a social enterprise established in 2007 to oversee the renovation of a traditional building – Orchard Barn.
In the last 4 years OBee has run practical courses in Timber Frame Repairs, Cob Building and How to Reconstruct an Authentic 17th Century Roof on this live restoration project. OBee have also run an active Volunteer Programme and annual events such as Tree to Timber, Rediscovering the Vernacular and Creating a Greener Home. These events were run in partnership with Anglian Woodland Project, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, Suffolk Branch of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and Suffolk County Council's Green Building Network.
Provide environmentally sustainable indoor and outdoor facilities and structure for community activities.
Increase participation in heritage activities. Provide opportunities for learning traditional skills through practical
participation.
Employ, and encourage through education, the use of natural resources and organic techniques.
Conserve and enhance the historic features of the local landscape, including traditional orchards.
Develop community-supported vegetable plots, orchard, and woodland.
Encourage existing wildlife, and aim to increase biodiversity, by Improving habitat.
Provide increased access to, and opportunities for exercise in, green space.
Increase through a holistic educational programme, community awareness and understanding of the effect the individual has on the environment- and the vital interconnectedness between the health of the environment and the health of the individual.
The CIC has an asset lock which means any profit we generate into planting trees in the local community.
OBee is committed to hands-on low-tech environmental education.
OBee is Community Interest Company, a social enterprise established in 2007 to oversee the renovation of a traditional building – Orchard Barn.
In the last 4 years OBee has run practical courses in Timber Frame Repairs, Cob Building and How to Reconstruct an Authentic 17th Century Roof on this live restoration project. OBee have also run an active Volunteer Programme and annual events such as Tree to Timber, Rediscovering the Vernacular and Creating a Greener Home. These events were run in partnership with Anglian Woodland Project, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, Suffolk Branch of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and Suffolk County Council's Green Building Network.
Provide environmentally sustainable indoor and outdoor facilities and structure for community activities.
Increase participation in heritage activities. Provide opportunities for learning traditional skills through practical
participation.
Employ, and encourage through education, the use of natural resources and organic techniques.
Conserve and enhance the historic features of the local landscape, including traditional orchards.
Develop community-supported vegetable plots, orchard, and woodland.
Encourage existing wildlife, and aim to increase biodiversity, by Improving habitat.
Provide increased access to, and opportunities for exercise in, green space.
Increase through a holistic educational programme, community awareness and understanding of the effect the individual has on the environment- and the vital interconnectedness between the health of the environment and the health of the individual.
The CIC has an asset lock which means any profit we generate into planting trees in the local community.
OBee is committed to hands-on low-tech environmental education.
Observation/surveyOk so Orchard Barn is about promoting sustainability in a big way, working together as a team to achieve a completed project. Learning new skills through practical application of those skills. Being totally off grid gives Orchard Barn a unique stand point in the Permaculture way. What do I want to achieve from this project Bring together and utilize all the skills I have learned at Orchard Barn for the following: Put together land learning material to obtain Land Learning status for Orchard Barn. Learn more about other Land Learning Centres Put together course material for Permaculture courses. who Marketing / Facebook / Website Permaculture association Transition towns Other land learning centres Schools and education Weaving The Web Utilise volunteers as work force in exchange for learning skills Pull together institutions that are working towards the same goal What Utilize the original site survey of the Orchard Barn site Questionnaire and Ideas Look at what projects have been completed at Orchard Barn: Compost toilet Cob wall building Barn renovation Green wood construction Urinal Worm palace Teaching area Raised beds and food area Ground cover Water filtration system Look at future projects: Pond renovation Rainwater harvesting Forest garden Raised beds Teaching: Presentation and design of creative and fun teaching techniques Simple and easy to understand include Colour/touch/smell Visually interesting Look at special needs requirements Make learning fun and exciting include permaculture courses photos /video footage Rainwater harvesting photos/video footage Site maps Before Present Future Permaculture principles write ups Include colour in visual material Team up with articles on each project Visual picture boards ethics picture Click here to go to design |
ResourcesCosts Where ever possible the projects are funded by community/Government based grants Resources People Manpower is provided in several ways:· Volunteers keen to learn new skills Via the education sector: For students studying for a certificated qualification people wanting to learn sustainable skills Involving local people from the community: Local businesses Groups interested in permaculture Transition towns Ipswich community garden Tree low carbon farm Resources Materials Most of the materials required for the projects are sourced from the site or local businesses materials are sourced as swaps or requests from people who have surplus materals RESOURCES Video footage Books TFT Courses
The time frame for the Land Learning was 6 weeks as the funding by the Permaculture Association was coming to an end. |