Skyegrove
Come and grow your own organic produce. Enjoy working in a tranquil setting and being close to nature, and also enjoy the benefits of being part of a small friendly community.
Organic Growing & Handheld Tools
Growing organically, combined with the use of hand powered tools are our preferred choice at Skyegrove
Community Growing
Set in gently sloping fields near Herodsfoot, Cornwall, Skyegrove is a continually evolving project that aims to show people what can be done with the bare minimum of infrastructure.
My aim was always to give the local community the opportunity to grow communally while having their own areas of responsibility. We encourage organic production, the use of hand powered tools, and enhancing the habitat for wild life.
Currently we have ten allotments, several larger half acre growing plots, fruit areas, and polytunnels. If you would like to become involved please click the button below.
About Skyegrove
I bought Skyegrove in the spring of 2008, a nine and a half acre field of medium loam soil over shillet, gently sloping to the west/south west.
There was no water or electricity, and there were no buildings, just nine and a half acres of grass bounded by Cornish hedges and three gated entrances. This project is an ideal opportunity to show other people what can be done with the bare minimum of infrastructure.
During this crucial time of transition it is becoming of paramount importance to find new ways of living sustainably in times when we cannot take endless fuel supplies for granted. The threat to world food security increases as populations become more unbalanced and disconnected from the land; therefore projects like Skyegrove are becoming increasingly relevant.
Providing local people with space to grow organic food and, perhaps, to gain a deeper connection with the land, and to the way their food is produced.
On another note it is worth mentioning that during Covid, Skyegrove provided a very welcome lifeline for all those involved.
Times are changing; to redress the balance we need to back away from intensive food production based heavily on the oil industry and to return to handheld tools, and to small scale farms that work harmoniously and gently with the land for a more natural way of producing our food.
