Welcome to the Mandala Garden Project
An evolving organic/biodynamic market garden at the heart of a thriving mandala of activities. Creating nourishment on all levels by working together with nature.
Our passions include...
Growing and selling quality, fresh biodynamic/organic vegetables
Using biodynamic / organic methods to care for the land and enhance its vitality and diversity
Creating a small, beautiful community orchard as a place for people to connect to the land, to each other and share their skills and the harvest
Offering organic gardening and design services to the community around
Volunteer Mornings 2024
Each Wednesday*, 10am - All welcome
This year we take the second acre size field into cultivation. We really welcome your help with stone picking and the usual gardening tasks!!!
Includes a yummy tea break and fresh produce to take home :)
Let's gather each Wednesday from 10am,
*from April 10th to the end of October.
We start at 10am with a short atunement and will work on the land, according to our needs and abilities. At around noon we tidy up and celebrate with some refreshments. By 1pm, we're usually saying farewell... until the next time.
Please bring along whatever you may need. For example, warm clothes, gardening gloves, knee pads, a bottle of water, a snack...
It may be possible to organise car sharing.
Mandala Garden Project Open Day!
Saturday 9th September 2023, 11am - 5pm
We welcome you again to join us in the annual celebration of our mandala of activities at Mandala Garden Project!
Including:
- Organic/Biodynamic Market Garden & Community Orchard walks & tree planting
- Grand opening of the compost loo with a view
- Plant sale (cash only please)
- Home made refreshments from the delicious produce
- Storytelling
- Singing
- Fire ceremony
- ..... & chasing anything that flies on the wind… with Lilly the pup.
There's lost of fun to be had & we look forward to celebrating the abundance of life with you!
Transplanting apple saplings - Tue to Thu, April 4th to 6th 2023
Thank you for joining the next big step in the Community Orchard!
A big warm thanks to all who came to celebrate Spring and plant in the Community Orchard.
Together we transplanted a variety of 52 apple trees from the nursery. Yay!!
Each sapling was lovingly given a place in the Community Orchard to reach maturity and produce an abundance of apples in years to come.
Other tasks included giving an extra blessing of compost and a layer of mulch to help them settle in, and weeding previous plantings around the orchard.
All enjoyed soup and refreshments for lunch and freshly harvested leeks to take home.
Heaps of appreciation for bringing your enthusiam and love to this much needed work. You can see photos here.
Contact us if you'd like to join in the planting next year.
Open Day 2022 - Saturday, October 8th
Thank you to all who came to the Mandala Garden Open Day!
Many volunteers, members, friends and newcomers came to celebrate all that has flourished on the land, and all the gifts that have flowed including yummy vibrant vegetables, delivered to members each week during the season.
See photos here of the Open Day.
Schedule for the day
- Veg Garden and Community Orchard guided walk
- Warm refreshments
- Live music and storytelling
- Fire ceremony
Thank you all for your encouragement and support of this beautiful community project!
We look forward to Open Day 2023 and to warmly welcoming you to Mandala Garden again :)
Organic and Biodynamic Certification
Mandala Garden is now fully Organic certified (May 2022)
See the Demeter certifcates here.
This major milestone in the project helps us to serve you and the local community for years to come :)
We are working to become certified Biodynamic by mid 2023.
Planting week - Mon to Sat, March 14th to 19th 2022
A big thank you to all who came to celebrate Spring and plant in the Community Orchard and field!
Together we planted about a hundred plants - current, loganberry, gooseberry, pine, beech, hazel, hawthorn,... They were given a permanent home in the Community Orchard and around, enriched with compost and a cosy layer of mulch.
Some volunteers joined in for a day and some for the whole week. Thank you! :)
See photos here of the week.
The daily rhythm was :
- 10am to 12.30pm - Arrive/tune in and start planting
- 12.30pm to 1.30pm - Yummy snacks, refreshments & lunch
- 1.30pm to 4pm - Continue planting, tidy up & tune out, depart/farewell
Much appreciation for bringing lots of joy and enthusiam to help the plants along.
Contact us if you'd like to join in the planting week next year
Seek the truly practical material life
But seek it so that it does not numb you to the spirit.
Seek the spirit but seek it, not in passion for the super-sensible
But seek it because you wish to apply it selflessly in the practical world in the practical life.
Turn to the ancient principal,
Matter is never without spirit and spirit is never without matter
In such a way that we say
We will do all things in the light of the spirit,
And we will so seek that light of the spirit that it evokes warmth for us
in our practical activities.
Rudolf Steiner