Tap o' Noth Farm

8 acre ecologically designed and managed fledgling farm. Market garden, pastured hens, rare breed cattle. Permaculture demonstration and education site, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. www.taponothfarm.com

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A selection of some of our veg box harvests over the past ten weeks.

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Veg box week #1 - Tap o’ Noth Farm, Scotland.

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Tap o’ Noth Farm - market garden summer 2016.

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Tap o' Noth Permaculture Design Course

Take a flick through the prospectus for this summer’s Permaculture Design Course, taking place at Tap o’ Noth Permaculture, Scotland, led by Richard Perkins.

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This year, Tap o' Noth Permaculture will be stepping up its focus on food production, with the addition of a market garden to provide even more lovely fresh vegetables grown below the Tap. We're also looking into increasing egg production, ranging our hens on pasture and within our areas of woodland. And of course, we do have our amazing Shetland cows now, so who knows what they might bring to the table?

To start with, we intend to sell our produce direct from a farm shop on site, before setting up as a CSA Network UK(Community supported Agriculture) scheme for 2017, finding members to sign up to a regular box of veg and other farm produce. All our produce will be grown using ecologically sound methods and we hope to be able to bring them to you at a fair price.

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Some of what to expect on our Permaculture Design Course

Spend two weeks in beautiful Scotland learning ecological design and regenerative agriculture from leading tutors at Tap o' Noth Permaculture.

With this 80HR + Permaculture Research Institute (AU)/Permaculture Association (UK) certified PDC being held on a PRI Master Plan site/ScotLAND Centre AND being led by one of Europe's leading educators and designers, Richard Perkins, it's a course not to be missed!

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Solstice sauna - sweating out the longest night.

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Epic fire tonight.

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Early Bird booking open now! Visit www.pri-tap.com to book a place.

Gain the necessary skills to begin designing regenerative and abundant landscapes and learn how to make ecologically responsible decisions to help build a diverse, resilient and environmentally conscious future for yourself and your community.

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Permaculture Design Course Scotland - June 2016

Date set for next PDC at Tap o' Noth Permaculture.

We are happy to announce the dates for our next residential Permaculture Design Course. June 17 - July 1 2016

Put those dates in your diaries folks as this is going to be a PDC not to be missed. We will be welcoming one of Europe's leading Permaculture designers, Richard Perkins of Ridgedale Permaculture, to lead this essential course from our demonstration site here in NE Scotland. More info to follow soon. Please share to those you feel may be interested.

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How the Tap o’ Noth Permaculture kitchen garden is looking (August 2015)

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Tap o’ Noth Permaculture welcomes the latest additions to the smallholding, two rare breed Shetland cattle. Roll on Tap o’ Noth DAIRY!

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Sauna at Tap o’ Noth Permaculture, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Our recently built sauna (made within a garden shed) and plunge pool, helping people unwind during our 2 week permaculture design course.

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We’ve been running our first Permaculture Design Course, accredited by the Permaculture Research Institute and taking place in beautiful NE Scotland.

Follow our Face Book page to see more pics of the last 10 days. 

https://www.facebook.com/taponothpermaculture

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Cold Room/Root Cellar

We've retrofitted an already cold, north facing room of our cottage to act as a cold storage area for fruits, vegetables, preserves, ferments etc. A place to store our harvests. Light is excluded, the room insulated, a cold air source is piped into the room from outside. The flooring is tiled and we have a marble countertop which stays super cool. The temperature stays around 0°C - 6°C with a humidity reading of between 80 - 95 %Cold Room/Root Cellar

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Love seeing the shapes of the swales, berms and raised beds under the snow.