A SOUTH West environmental and creative group has teamed up with a Devon farm to hold an open day experience this month.
Members of The Art and Energy Collective — a group of artists, thinkers, makers and tinkerers based in Devon — design creative experiences to help people connect with energy systems and harness hope for a better world.
The free event will be held at Duchy of Cornwall-owned Challacombe Farm for an afternoon of fresh Dartmoor air, moss planting, creativity and farm tours on June 18.
The event will include a tour of Challacombe Farm, planting bio-original sphagnum moss to restore the peatland habitat, specialist guided walk and tour of the wetland meadow areas of the farm and creative activities throughout the day.
Parking is on-site in a signposted flat field — farm grid reference: SX 693 794, postcode PL20 6TD. Thanks goes to funder Devon Environment Foundation
Challacombe Farm is managed by Mark Owen and Naomi Oakley and with Higher Level Stewardship and other grant funding, they manage the farm balancing the needs of conservation, archaeology, landscape and access.
They are also part of a farm cluster group who are collaborating to make their farms environmentally and economically sustainable on a landscape scale with an eye on the changing public and private finance opportunities.
For more info about Challacombe Farm visit www.dartmoorfarm.com.
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