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Author: Dartington
Dartington Trust is a unique place - an exciting place to visit and enjoy year-round events, with a rich history of progressive social experimentation and innovation. We are also an educational charity that supports learning in ecology, the arts, social enterprise and within the wider community. If you want to explore our work, you can browse a
rich collection of news, blogs and features here.
Why most wine does not age well, and other wine talk with Justin Howard-Sneyd
Diary: Notes from the Walled Kitchen Garden
Regular, rolling updates from the brilliant volunteer team at our beautiful Kitchen Garden! Follow the progress of this beautiful organic garden as zero-food miles produce is grown for our café, The Green Table and our restaurant, The White Hart.
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Radical learning environments
Dr Sarah Elisa Kelly, lecturer in Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College blogs with her thoughts on what radical education means for her.
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Meet our lead gardener
We caught up with Mike Record, who has worked at Dartington for four years and is responsible for our much-loved Grade II* Listed Gardens.
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Interest in our ecological and arts degrees is on the rise
Dartington Trust receives influx of applications for postgraduate programmes as students look to courses that offer practical, solutions-based approaches to environmental issues and the climate crisis, in order to gain the skills they need for the future.
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Three books to spark a revolution?
Jonathan Dawson, the Programme Lead for our highly-respected MA Regenerative Economics, blogs on the often forgotten but increasingly important philosophical dimension in modern day economics.
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Plea for dog owners to take care around livestock
“I have been hit with sticks, I have had stones thrown at me and I have been spat at" - our tenant farmer issues a plea for visitors to help protect his livelihood.
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Vision for Dartington Estate to become a food hub for south Devon
We catch up with Tara Vaughan-Hughes, Food Lead for Dartington Trust, whose culinary influences are inspired by her native home in rural Vermont, USA.
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New MA programmes begin and students arrive
A historic moment for learning at Dartington Trust as students on our two new MA programmes experienced their first day of teaching on site here at Dartington.
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