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Tap o' Noth Permaculture

Tap o' Noth Permaculture

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Tap o' Noth Permaculture

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Rural, Residential

Project Summary

Tap o' Noth Permaculture is an aspiring Permaculture farm and demonstration site, still in its infancy but growing at a rapid pace. Our aim is to create an edible and self-sustaining lanscape and inspire others to do the same.

Project Description

Tap o' Noth Permaculture is a 7.9 acre family run smal hill farm in its early stages of design, situated on the slopes of Tap o' Noth hill (564m and capped with the ancient remnants of an Iron Age hill fort) in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The farm is a mix of south facing slopes, young mixed broadleaf woodland, pasture, ponds and bog and a growing number of food gardens and animal systems.

The site was purchased in Jan 2012 with the aim of setting up the land to become a fertile, productive farm. Once the systems are in place we intend to teach Permaculture Design Courses from the farm and also working with what surplus the farm yeilds.

To date (June 2012) we have desined and built two kitchen gardens, consisting of double reach beds on contour with small swale/pathways. Some beds were built using hugleculture principles. We have built a duck system which is located at the top of one garden so we can benifit from the duck manure through piped duck water or through the action of gravity/ run -off directly into a swale. We have chickens working in chook tractors in areas where we want to either expand the veg gardens or grow food forests.

We have an old blacksmith building which we plan to renovate and use as the Permaculture classroom and education center as well as a slowfood cafe.

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