The Husbandry School

The Husbandry School

The Husbandry School

thehusbandryschool

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New pea sowings in drainage pipe, ready to slide out onto our carefully prepared beds for spring planting. Let’s hope the frost doesn’t come just as we set them free ❄️!
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#peas #peasowing #springpea #devonpea #devonveg #londonchef #londonchefs

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We were planting fruit bushes on Friday with students and volunteers in our new fruit garden; it will be full of jostaberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, red gooseberries and loganberries... to name just a few 😋!
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Soon enough a new fruit cage will be in place and our strawberry plants will be transplanted to the new site too. We look forward to seeing most of these fruit next year 🍓.
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#delicious #fruitgarden #fruitcage #devonfruit #fruitbushes #planting #plantingfruit #devon #londonchefs

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Our story medicine course on Sunday 8th March welcomes participants to prompt new pieces of writing that connect the writer through landscape, plants and places in the natural world. To enquire and challenge the questions of the heart, matters of health or decisions yet to unravel ✍️.
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Lucy will help you to consider the mighty elements, exhilarate your senses and pay attention to the smallest of details. You will also enjoy a nourishing lunchtime feast, including ingredients grown on the land here. Contact us on 01626 821145 or info@husbandry.co.uk for more details (or check the link in our bio!) 📞.
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#creativewriting @lucylepchani #devonlandscape #landscape #naturalwriting #writingcourse #devoncourses #learnsomethingnew

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Collard greens, spring greens and purple sprouting broccoli in today’s packing shed sunlight... bootiful ☀️!
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Also known as wild cabbage, collard greens are delicious with garlic, chilli, onions and sesame oil - we had them for lunch today alongside omelette and potatoes 😋!
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#greens #devongreens #collard #psb #purplesprouting #febveg #vegfeb #devon #sunshine #springgreens #wildgreenshop

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Frogs a plenty 🐸!!
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We had so much fun yesterday listening and watching the abundant pond life with students, taking pictures and absorbing the activity - the sound is amazing and won’t last for long 💦!
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Work to regenerate the ponds has really had a result here, and we look forward to the frogspawn creating more creatures to look after our crops too 👀.
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#pondlife #froglife #wildlife #pond #frogs #devonfrogs #devon #frogsofinstagram #frogs🐸

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A wonderful post from chef partner @merlin_johnson below ... what a pleasure it has been to work alongside you throughout your career so far Merlin! It is an honour to supply you with produce that is appreciated and celebrated through your work, THANK YOU! Here’s to lots of exciting growing collaborations for this coming season 🥬🥦🥕🌶🧅🌿🌱!
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Posted @withregram • @merlin_johnson SHARKS FIN MELON SQUASH

I’ve known Carole and Jonty from the @thehusbandryschool since I was about 8 years old and before I moved back to the UK from Belgium I went to see them at their farm to ask if they’d grow for me if I opened a restaurant. Fast forward about 5 years and 4 restaurants (!) and it gives me great pleasure to say that they have grown with me as a chef, following me on my journey and expanding their growing / crops as I expand my projects! They are and have been the biggest inspiration in my cooking and moving back to the Westcountry was a move the bring me closer to them (and try my hand at growing my own)

Today @osiprestaurant you will find their vegetables, fruit and leaves in every single dish as well as decorating our tables and their dried herbs and flowers in our infusions. Grown without chemicals and with with such immense respect for their surroundings. Best produce ever. Thank you 🌾🌿🌿🌱🍃

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Our angora goat Timmy having a scratch today... he could probably teach us some yoga too 🧘‍♀️!
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#yoga #scratch #itchygoat #goatsofinstagram #devongoats #devon

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Beautiful new beds created by our growing team - a wonderful view on a stunning day here on the hill ☀️.
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Our new crop rotation plan will be implemented in our no-dig beds, along with locally-sourced wood chip paths and longer beds for more veg 🥦🌽🥕!
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#croprotation #newbeds #devonveg #londonchefs #woodchip #nodig

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A beautiful monoprint created today by one of our students... an abstract portrait of our school cat Sergei 🐈!
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#monoprint #catprint #printingwithstudents

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Our pigs are enjoying their dinner.. They love it, snuffling around in the mud until every morsel is gone. Happy Thursday everyone ✨!
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#pigs #tamworths #devonpigs #pigsdinner #devon #socialfarming

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Homemade bird treats ... mixed bird seed, combined with lard and cut into shapes 😋!
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This last week students have been making and hanging these on our (now outside) Christmas tree and around the therapeutic garden to create a feeding haven for fattening birds. We’ve also been getting practice in for the @rspb_love_nature #biggardenbirdwatch2020 by sitting nearby and observing our bird feeders and the trees nearby. It’s amazing how many you spot when you’re sitting calmly and are watching the often-forgotten skies, even on a grey and mizzly day 🌫!
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#commongardenbirds #englishbirds #birdfeeder #naturefeed #naturefeeders #devonbirdwatch #devonbird

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We have been regenerating our ponds here at The Husbandry School, lessening some choking plant life to allow for good breeding grounds for wildlife. We have also rehabilitated the ponds with iris and bulrush plants 🌱.
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In the process, students found breeding frogs, newts and eels 🐸!
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#pondlife #devonponds #newts #frogs #eels #devonschools

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Check out the colonisation of succulents, herbs, grass and moss on the green roof shelter of our pizza oven 😯!
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#succulents #anotherworld #roofworld #colonisation #amazingpicture

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Special moments in the sunshine with students today 😌...
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#socialfarms #socialfarming #therapy #therapeuticeducation #reengagereinspire #devon

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Welcome Nell, Nettle and Bramble; our new therapy goats 🐐 !
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These lovely new additions recently came to live with us as close neighbours to the school - they are rescued, de-horned goats which we can introduce and integrate with our students at the school... and we love them! We are feeding them lots of hay in this ‘orrid weather 😫!
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#therapy #therapygoats #goats #devongoats #goatsofinstagram

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Beautiful. Wish we could taste this @osiprestaurant 😋!
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Posted @withregram • @osiprestaurant @thehusbandryschool beetroots with @westcombedairy ricotta

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Sunrise on the hill here this morning... some much needed clarity from all the January rain we’ve been having ☀️!
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We have been busy processing course bookings today and have been selling out of some already... If you have any in mind don’t miss out on securing your place 😬!
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Kicking off this year’s courses on Sunday 8th March is the story medicine course with Lucy Lepchani - an inspiring creative practitioner, specialising in creative writing and natural dyes. Enjoy the surroundings of Devon countryside on the hill of The Husbandry School with beautiful views across South Devon, using the natural environment to provide retreat and inspire imagination. Follow the link in our bio to discover more✒️ !
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#sunrise #devoncourses #creativewriting #writingcourses #devon #newyearnewyou #newyear #learnsomethingnew

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A beautifully radiant Anemone in the light of a January morning ... 🌱☀️
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#anemone #januaryflowers #januaryflower #devon #januarylight

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Happy new year 💫!
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An exciting picture from our experiments with gin and Clitoria Ternatea ( the butterfly pea ) over the Winter break. The gin was infused as a magical mid winter potion! We love these flowers and can't wait to grow them in abundance this new year 🌱!
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New term starts tomorrow 🌒🌻🌟!
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#infusedgin #purplegin #newyear #freshstart #newterm #cropplans

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