EarthShare

05/04/2025

People might think that we have something against dog walkers but it's not true. Infact, custodians of Polwhele are part of the dog walking community. There are a small minority that abuse our green spaces and give us a bad name. It's not just about hygiene or making it difficult to grow food or play, it's also about impacts on wildlife

Birds that are disturbed during breeding season can abandon their nest, nature presenter says.

20/03/2025

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SAVE THE FOREST GARDEN

Petition: 21,648

Morning everyone.

Yesterday saw a nice article come out in the Guardian whose journalists took great interest in the plants in the forest garden as well as the issue at hand.

We met representatives of our landlord DHT yesterday. We met in the forest garden, which we introduced them to, then sat in a circle underneath the pine trees and talked. The talks were positive, and will continue next week. We're hopeful that we can get the long term security we need by buying the site within a short time.

We’re not there yet though, so please keep sharing the petition (link in bio)! We still need as many supporters to sign as numbers matter and we want to maintain momentum. https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-destruction-of-the-world-renowned-dartington-forest-garden

Keep up the good work!

(pic is marsh marigold in the forest garden)

19/03/2025

Devastating news from the Agroforestey Reseach Trust, who's beautiful edible forest garden was part inspiration for the food forest at Polwhele Permaculture Gardens. It's so sad, that as this is happening to them, lack of action by our own leaders and landmanagers is causing the demise of Newquays very own public food forest as a sourse of free food, learning opportunities for children and mitigation from the destruction of valuable pastural farmland.

In our case, we dont believe our leaders understand their commitments to 106 obligations in relation to providing opportunities for communities impacted by development, it's use to mitigate direct impacts on the immediate environment and opportunities to provide social economic opportunities within that land. It's time that leaders stop using phrases such as Needs and Wants as words to avoid funding essential infrastructure, when they should be aiming for provision of opportunity.

We have been failed on each of these key points by our Cornwall Councillor ignoring our needs for our CIC to provide opportunities to the public and letting developers and utility companies walk all over us, while posing in flower beds that spread invasive non-native plants in direct contravention of the UK invasive species strayagy.

And it's at this point, we let the community know that it's these failings that have led to the decision of directors and guarantors to close down EarthShare CIC. However, if anyone is interested, we will be continuing to run our Habitats Team as a local group. The name of this page is likely to change and you can continue to message us.

Thousands sign petition to save ‘vital’ Dartington Estate project that teaches agroforestry methods

31/12/2024

Did you know the creators or Aral Farm are also the designers of Polwhele Permaculture Gardens? It's great to see their personal dream of owning a truly sustainable and self regenerative where possible farm has become reality. Congratulations to you both. I know that when NTC and our Cornwall Councillor finally addresses problems that the Permaculture Gardens currently has, it will also become a wonderful asset to the immediate community.

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A cooperative market garden growing for the health of local soils, community and economy

27/10/2024

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23/10/2024

Come and join us on 'Welly Wednesdays' at Polwhele Permaculture Gardens at 10:00 till you feel like it. Opposite 127 Polwhele Road, TR72SZ. Be a tree guardian, help out with social media, garden or collect wildlife sightings. Are you good at marketing or finance? Perhaps you need experience? Are you a student? Perhaps you just want a chat and some friendship? We need volunteers. We need you. Comment or message. 🥸😘

If we get that community hub, just maybe we can be onsite more Newquay Town Council.

23/10/2024

We would love to do so much more of this. Treloggan Residents Association needs a community hub, Newquay Town Council. Only this way, can we deliver community activities, look after our brilliant volunteers and carry out effective land management. Look what we could have again (pre-watercourse disruption Treloggan Doorstep Green (Cornwall Council). Up and downstream thinking should be key to all new development designs. We have had so much taken away, please just let us have this hub.

Please comment if you would like community activities to return to Treloggan.

11/10/2024

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10/10/2024

Come and see our new and interactive Invasive non-native species sign.

Did you know that some plants we know and love very much are very environmentally and economically damaging if they escape the garden? Over the years, people have been given misleading information on some plants such as butterfly bush, based solely on what people have seen, rather than measured observation. This has led to lots of confusion (even within conservation organisations and local government biodiversity schemes) and aided in the spread of invasive non-native species. The UK now has an invasive non-native species strategy, making the government responsible for identifying how they are spread and raising awareness to the public. https://www.nonnativespecies.org/about/gb-strategy/the-great-britain-invasive-non-native-species-strategy/

02/10/2024

How did we miss this? Thank you to Newquay Town Council for repairing the gap in the native hedge earlier in the year. The trees are growing and we are trying our best to keep the invasive non-native plants out. Quite a challenge when being brought in by the public. We are sure the wildlife corridor will be complete once more and wildlife can move freely through the project. It is all about genetic flow baby and the things wildlife do for us for free at the gardens.

02/10/2024

Polwhele Permaculture Garden had a visit form Ian at South West in Bloom recently who was very intrigued and exited with the project! It was lovely to see him taking many photographs of the sustainable urban drainage system, soil improving flowers and wildlife. 💐🌷🌼

Find out more about the project and read updates on how it is progressing here: www.newquaycouncil.uk/polwhele-community-garden/

Pictured: The pond with wildflower margins. Plants being added soon.

02/10/2024

Our volunteers have been struggling quite a bit emotionally this past year, in fact, we are a bit exhausted. So after a great session with Eden Project Communities, I thought I would look back and celebrate the past. My hope for the project is that we will get the support we need for a community hub to allow community spirit to flourish again. Who remembers community fairs and workshops on Treloggan Doorstep Green? Who remembers the nature learning area? We do! Wasn't it great?

02/10/2024

Picking up a few posts, I didn't know existed. Thank you for supporting us with funds from your community chest. A small amount of cash can go such a long way. We love getting materials for free but in this case, having decent materials for sitting on was very important for those in the community who may need an extra little structural stability for mobility. Thank you, Sarah and thank you Katie, who has also contributed to signage.

12/09/2024

Aren't perennial edibles awesome. This apple mint is great for so many more things than just eating. Apple mint makes great ground cover for reducing undesirable wildflowers growing where you don't want them to. It attracts huge abundance and diversity of flying insects to pollinate our other food crops. This provides a great food sourse for invertebrates such as this beautiful crab spider, also important himself for managing pests. It provides great protection for shorter plants from wind, sun, and salt burn. It's pretty, not that this is important. It makes a great tea and is lovely when used to parcel up bites of glass noodles with egg and peanut sauce +/- your dietary preferences.

12/09/2024

We are not always convinced that our local councillors take the UK biodiversity strategy as seriously as they should, particularly around the Invasive Non-native Species Strategy which aims to reduce the negative economic, communal, environmental, habitat, ecosystem and wildlife impacts. Councils, developers and communal projects still plant some of the most harmful despite our knowledge that they cause great biodiversity loss and cost the taxpayer huge amounts of money. The public seems to be in the dark about this topic despite education being key to the above strategies. We have proudly managed to keep the most harmful non-native species out of the permaculture gardens but it is becoming increasingly hard with an increase in the occurrence of fly-tipping garden waste. My answer is proper community composters for those that can be and collection points that cannot be for those that can spread easily in compost such as crocosmia. I predict fly-tipping will get worse with appointment systems for household recycling centers and double charging for valuable organic waste.

12/09/2024

Treloggan Residents Association
There may well be grapes ready to pick at Polwhele Permaculture Gardens. Please take care not to damage the vines, and close the gates behind you. Please be aware that ground-level bathtub gardens may be slippery in the rain. A rule of thumb for picking food is, if you have a mouth, eat it but only take what you need, sharing is caring, and saving a few berries for wildlife is very important to us. Donate as you feel is greatly appreciated but not essential, although we don't have a box yet.

12/09/2024

Link to talk edible ecosystems talk

Thursday, 3rd December 2020 Tristan Holmes will present his ideas about how edible ecosystems could and should play a vital role in addressing community challenges. At this Coffee with Cornwall Sci…

31/10/2023

A few from late October

Cornish apple about to flower, Broom in flower, Autumn raspberry, dragon fly (unknown spp.), Great mulleins, raspberry cane planting, Sweet flag and Penny Royal in bath tubs.