Education/Training

Applewood's big vision is for an abundant and fair world where Earth and people are treated with respect.
Their mission (i.e. our positive steps to reach this big vision) is to provide inspiration, motivation and tools to enable people to be proactive in growing the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Shares.
They run courses online and in-person in North Herefordshire.

Tomas Ramiarz offers the following services:
Training programmes from short talks and workshops to in-depth courses
Mentoring service for forest gardeners, including site visits and face-to-face or remote tutorials
Collaborative design processes with groups including households, community groups, commercial or institutional clients
Site design, including singe visit walk-through designs, outline plans through to fully costed and scheduled plans
Food forest planting service including sourcing of plants and materials, site protection, ground preparation, planting of trees, shrubs and herbaceous layers
Site maintenance, repair and retrofitting
Development and execution of research programmes

Local action groups are part of a large network supported with plenty of expertise, training, resources and lobbying power. They're made up of people like you, and together they’ll bring about big systemic change.