EarthShare

23/08/2025

Such an amazing plant. How our British wildflowers end up on acts designed to eradicate in order only to keep Britain tidy, I do wonder.

22/08/2025

🌱 Permaculture Gardens Update 🌿

Our permaculture gardens have been receiving some much-needed care lately, and we’re thrilled to see the project gaining momentum again! Huge thanks to Newquay Town Councils Open Spaces team, who’ve been working tirelessly to bring things back on track.

At our nursery plot at Fairpark, fruit bushes are thriving, and the nitrogen-fixing trees generously donated by the Treloggan Residents Association are coming along beautifully. If all goes well, they’ll be ready for planting this autumn 🍂

We’re hoping to host a communal planting day—ideally at the end of September. However, if summer lingers and the trees hold onto their leaves, we may need to wait a little longer to ensure the conditions are just right. After all, we want to give these trees the best possible start on what is a challenging site.

Stay tuned for updates and planting day details—we’d love for you to be part of it 🌳💚

And please check food free for the taking in the no-dig garden. There should be grapes, Chinese gooseberries and annual fruits coming along nicely. Take what you need, leave some for others and don't forget to leave a little for the wildlife.

Photos, English Alder, Italian Alder and Joster berries on our nursery plot.

06/05/2025

Update to share please. We have had confirmation that Companies House has agreed with our application to strike EarthShare CIC off the register. Please report any land management or anti-social behavioural concerns at Polwhele Permaculture Gardens to Newquay Town Council who are responsible for upholding the 106 obligations on the land. Our decision follows a pattern of reluctance of local leaders to mitigate issues at the permaculture gardens which impedes our ability to raise an income for the community. But on a positive note, here is a lovely food forest flourishing, the way Polwhele should be by now, at Eden.

25/04/2025

But does this alteady happen unofficially?

Exclusive: plan to let firms sidestep environmental laws by paying into nature levy would add cost and delay, says letter to MPs

24/04/2025

Such a shame our local kids are missing out of this kind of thing woth lack of support from our local authorities and land manager.

24/04/2025

Devastating news and I guess.means thousands of us in the ecological industries out of a job. Watch out, Mr Housing for Cornwall will have his eyes on our last green spaces.

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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

https://www.facebook.com/share/1J92MnbYf1/

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.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61570717012691

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

27/10/2024

https://www.linkedin.com/events/thewildlifetrusts-cop16update277256271873250922497

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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.