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After last year’s success we decided to run two summer holiday schemes for Moulsecoomb kids. A chance for them to make camps, carve wood, try out some bushcraft, cook over fires, stuff their faces with marshmallows and generally just enjoy being outside. But we haven’t yet bitten the bullet and let people camp overnight! Recently I did a bit of that overnight camping where all the children were having a brilliant, pretty much unsupervised, time outdoors – just like the… Read More »FOREST GARDEN SUMMER CAMP

Spending a penny at the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden Projects is a lot more pleasant thanks to a brand new compost toilet. The toilet was built by pupils on work experience, overseen by project workers and funded by the Princes Trust and Sussex Community Foundation. Three of the pupils, Daniel Morton and Reece Daly from the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and Karl Williams from Bowden House School received awards from the Princes Trust because of their work. Team Leader Reece Daly… Read More »PRINCES TRUST AWARDS COMPOST LOO BUILDERS

These photos are by Laura Wright

On a beautiful sunny day in June nearly 300 people came to our open day to learn about bees, go on guided walks in the woods, learn about composting, herbs and wildflowers. Look at our amazing new compost loo, make string from nettles and bark, practice some basket making or wood carving. Make pizzas in our clay oven, dress up or pond dip. Here’s a selection of photos taken by Esther Lynn Thanks to Big Lottery Fund for funding this… Read More »WOODLAND OPEN DAY 4TH JUNE 2011

Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund which funded a year long celebration of Queensdown Woods being part of the South Downs National Park, Dave Bangs has been taking groups of schoolchildren from Moulsecoomb Primary into the woods and surrounding fields. Here’s a list of what Year 5 found. In the Wood When we first stopped in the Wood we could hear Blackcap’s melodious warbling (it is a ‘warbler’ !!) in the background…and the monotonous chiff-chaff of the Chiffchaff… Read More »WALK IN THE WOODS WITH MOULSECOOMB PRIMARY

Thanks to money from the Princes Trust and Sussex Community Foundation we have been busy upgrading our compost loo.

Pupils have been busy planting up their own individual raised beds and some have been helping put up the new polytunnel with coppiced wood.

On friday 13th we did a photography workshop at the forest garden. Volunteers took part in learning how to use a digital camera and photograph parts of the garden that they liked the most. Some volunteers were really familiar with the garden and some were completely new! This was a great way to get together and look at the garden from a different point of view, using our cameras to do it. The photographs were taken with compact digital cameras… Read More »Photography Day at the Forest Garden!