the Middlewood Trust

The Trust emphasises low-impact, small-scale solutions to problems, seeking to promote ideas and designs that can be replicated easily by people of all skill-sets, and which work with nature rather than against it, Using Permaculture principles in design and implementation, we work towards zero-waste, self-managing systems which enhance biodiversity and the resilience of the natural world around us.

Situated in idyllic semi-ancient woodlands, the Trust has, for over three decades, provided a place of education on all aspects of low-impact living. We run courses as diverse as spoon-carving, cob-building, coppicing, greenwood furniture making, Yurt building, foraging and preserving, woodland conservation, gardening, construction and natural beekeeping.