Rupert and Claire Callender, the husband and wife team behind The Green Funeral Company, have moved their unique and groundbreaking business from Cornwall to Dartington, where they intend to become part of a community working hard to deliver sustainable solutions to the pressing problem of life and death.
The largest straw bale building in Devon is being constructed on the Dartington Hall estate, as part of the new carbon and waste neutral community saw mill run by Greyfield Timber – a Dartington Land Scope project that will provide a year round supply of local, sustainable, and cost effective fuel to the Totnes and South Hams community.
Local landmark the Dartington Tweed Mill is re-opening after 12 years to house new Cider Press ecommerce business – powered from energy produced by the original water wheel.
The Dartington International Summer School has been mixing music with nature – in a week long ‘Sustainable Sound’ workshop based around the creation of musical instruments from found materials sourced from the Dartington estate, both natural and recycled.
Moor Trees, the first partners in Dartington’s rapidly growing Landscope project, are looking for a Tree Nursery Officer for their new nursery on the Dartington Hall Estate.
The Dartington Hall Trust is raising the stakes on their hunt to find the most exciting new photographer in the region – seeking ambitious and exciting individuals to compete for the photography commission of a lifetime…
If you missed the recent documentary on the region’s innovators you still have a chance to watch it and vote for Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst as the West Country’s greatest visionaries.
Education will remain fundamental to the work that we do at Dartington. Not only in the arts but across all our work in social justice and sustainability.
Dartington thought that it had a lot of new ideas for the future but it seems that you have even more.
Iconic Dartington estate building, the Lower Tweed Mill has been in the press lately and for all the right reasons. Dartington is going to switch the lights back on.
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