24/10/2025
The planting plan (1st image) is a throw-back to the original permaculture orchard design from about 4/5 years ago as we were coming out of the covid pandemic. The farm had been volunteer led during the period and it was becoming the community/ well being hub so much needed in our distopian modern lifecycles. I remember the joy, of that of getting our routine tasks and chores done that we could plan extra plantings and improvements to the farm. The idea that nuisance would be directed at us from the log yard above and industry and spray painting below had not entered our minds. Why would it? We thought we were on a wave of a ciltural shift, Wiltshire and the Town Council had declared a Climate Emergency, local food resilience was very much in demand. We were in Green Belt surrounded by green fields, on the edge of our town, exactly were we were needed to be. Two days ago I got the last of our documents off to the Ombudsman, fingers crossed someone has the guts to sort this mess out. The Dream is to turn Avonleigh Orchards into a functioning community orientated farm, a centre of production, well-being and nature friendly management, which seems crazy to say as we were already doing it.
