About the event

Growing Food, Restoring Nature
An Evening Exploration of a New Regenerative Farming Project in Ballaugh Curragh

Join Philippa Tomlinson and Peter Davey for a summer evening visit to a newly acquired 5.39-acre field in the Ballaugh Curragh, where an exciting partnership with Manx Wildlife Trust is beginning to take shape.

This experimental project aims to explore how food can be grown for local people while enhancing biodiversity and minimising impacts on the natural environment. As the project is still in its infancy, this is a unique opportunity to discover the vision behind it and help document the wide variety of life already present on the site.

We'll wander through the field looking for plants, insects, birds and other wildlife, helping to create a baseline biodiversity record that will inform the project's future development. We'll also dig a soil pit and examine soil samples under the microscope to uncover the hidden life beneath our feet.

Along the way, learn more about regenerative, restorative, biodynamic and organic approaches to food growing, and discuss how agriculture and ecology can work together for a healthier future.

Meeting Point:
Field gate at the corner of Windmill Road and Dollagh Mooar Road
What3Words: locals.buzzer.unfunny
Grid Ref: SC3552995465

Parking:
Available at MWT Close Sartfield car park (400m east of the field), or on the driveway at Close e Corvalley (What3Words: bendy.overkill.apes). Limited verge parking may be available. Please do not park in the field.

Come along, explore, learn, and help shape a new vision for food production and nature recovery in the Isle of Man.